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Cool-as-ice Roglic strengthens Tour lead, exhausted Bernal fades

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.rogla tightened his grip on the LeTour overall lead as he dropped defending champion Egan Bernal in the final ascent of a gruelling 13th stage on Friday. | IOLsport

"The Tour is not finished yet, there is still a lot of things that can happen, a lot of riders are still in the mix," said Roglic.

Eight riders are still within two minutes but Roglic has been the most impressive, never losing his cool despite Pogacar's repeated onslaughts. "I don't want to bother looking at names and comparing myself with others. I'll continue to focus on myself," said Vuelta champion Roglic.Bernal saw Roglic and Pogacar fade in the distance as his face turned into a mask of pain in the last two kilometres of the ascent to the Puy Mary.

The Colombian collapsed on his bike after the finish, mumbling:"I looked at my numbers, they're good, the others are just better." Bernal will now have to throw everything in the biggest battle of this year's Tour, the 17th stage, which finishes in Meribel 2,304 metres above sea level atop the Col de la Loze, an unforgiving 21.5-km climb at an average gradient of 7.8%.🏆 Maillots distinctifs et classements après l'étape 13 🏆

 

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