Dane looks ahead to the mountains on stage 10 and into the second and third week, as he sits fourth on GC 1:17 behind close rival

Pogačar was happy to lose the yellow jersey by a single second to Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who went deep in the breakaway of the stage, won by Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), to take back yellow.

1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 04:05:39. 2. Jonas Vingegaard, Denmark, Team Visma ' Lease a Bike, same time. 3. Oscar Onley, Great Britain, Picnic PostNL, 04:05:41. 4. Felix Gall, Austria, Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, same time.

Instead, it was his Classics rival Pogacar who distanced him, with team UAE Emirates-XRG setting an infernal pace up the final slope to whittle the field down to a select group of climbers, including Remco Evenepoel, local boy Kevin Vauquelin, and Briton Oscar Onley, who ultimately finished third.

Visma-Lease a Bike had "no explanation" for why Jonas Vingegaard lost more than a minute to GC rival Tadej Pogačar in the time trial stage 5 of the Tour de France, with the Dane dropping to fourth overall.

Mathieu van der Poel made it two wins from two stages for Alpecin-Deceuninck at the 2025 Tour de France, winning a frantic stage into Boulogne-sur-Mer on Sunday afternoon and taking over the race lead from his team-mate Jasper Philipsen.

Vingegaard blew the doors off his power records Tuesday in a 24kph romp up the cruelest climb of the Tour de France so far.

Evenepoel bounces back from disappointing opening four stages with expected but perfect performance in race against the clock