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On a mountain ascent,
pain shows you who you are.

That's the reality.

And if you are able to
push yourself to suffer

and sacrifice, then you
might get a chance to win.

Today, the seventh stage
of the Tour de France

between Tomblay and
La Superplanche de Belphi.

And the first time at high
altitude in the Vosges Mountains.

Today, stage seven.

It's supposed to
be like 27 degrees.

It will be hot.

But it can't be.

Mega, mega steep.

How was your
final day in yellow?

Painful.

There was definitely not how
we hoped things would unfold.

Yeah.

Van

Aert is about to lose his yellow jersey
to the reigning champion, Tadej Bagacar.

He's in a team that fully
supports his mission.

There are no minor objectives
within Team Emirates.

It's all about Bagacar.

And Bagacar gains his first
victory in this year's Tour de France.

Tadej Bagacar wears
the yellow jersey.

Bagacar has really shown he
wants to stay king of the Tour.

But who can dethrone him?

Be ready that Bagacar
wants to go for the stage again.

Most likely, there will be 20, 25
guys coming to the last kilometer.

And then it will explode there.

When we come to the mountains, you will see
what suffering means and how hard it is.

But we truly believe
that we are strong

enough as a team to
compete on every terrain.

Good?

Yeah.

I'll take some too.

Yeah.

Jumbo-V is more desperate
to win the Tour de France.

But they've had
serious bad luck.

Roglic has had a crash.

Roglic has had a crash.

Roglic has had a crash.

Roglic has had a crash.

This is catastrophic
for Jumbo-V.

The cobbles were
a complete disaster.

Roglic was injured.

And all the pressure now falls solely
upon the shoulders of his teammate,

Jonas Wengergaard, who has
never won a stage in the Tour.

Fingego.

He doesn't realize
how good he is.

And maybe he's
starting to realize that.

But...

It's a guy, we say,
if he sees his bike is

already riding fast, he
doesn't have to train.

The goal is to win
the Tour de France.

So it would be a disappointment
for us to finish second again.

Of course, there's
a nervousness.

But I'll just try to do
my best and we'll see.

It's amazing to see my
partner and daughter.

They support me the whole way.

I would never have been
able to do this without them.

It's fantastic.

It's his first Tour de France.

It's all really exciting.

I started cycling because I was having
kind of a hard time in playing football.

I was not so physical.

People were a bit hard on me.

Hi, Jonas.

Hello.

Here at celebration time?

Yes.

Funny moments?

Yes.

Ten seconds.

Okay.

Looking at the camera.

Yes.

Ever since I started cycling,
I was dreaming of being

a professional cyclist and
doing the Tour de France.

Okay.

But the first eight, nine years, I
was actually not so good at cycling.

Living in Denmark is not the
best place to be a good climber.

There's not a lot of mountains.

I was working at
the fish factory.

Jonbo called my
old sports director.

They were talking about another
rider on the team that I was on.

And he said, maybe
you have a look at Jonas.

He said I had some potential.

Of course, you have to dream.

But at that moment, yeah,
no one knows what it can be.

Six, five, four,
three, two, one.

It's the second stage
of the Tour de France.

And the first test for the climbers as they
reach high altitude for the first time.

The pace has been fast
since the start of the stage.

Almost at the climb now.

Come on.

We fight there.

Come on.

You need to be there where it
hurts and where the hectic is.

And not everybody is
capable of doing that.

The yellow jersey.

It is the jersey
everybody wants.

And there's Pogacar, the yellow
jersey surrounded by his teammates.

He's so motivated.

When your legs are hurting,
you have to keep riding.

Try to not think about the pain.

Try to ignore it.

Rafa Majka gives way as if to say
to Pogacar, it's down to you now.

Come on, Primoz.

Jonas, fight.

How do you say it?

You also kind of like the pain.

Jonas, fight in the line now.

Come on.

Come on, Jonas.

We can do it.

Come on, come on.

We've reached the section
with the steepest incline.

And Wengergaard attacks.

Wengergaard in the lead
in front of Tadej Pogacar.

Chemna is about to be overtaken.

Yes, yes, yes.

Less than 50 meters to go.

Wengergaard still in the lead.

The yellow jersey
right on his tail.

Come on, come on, come on.

Come on, Jonas.

Come on, Jonas.

Go, go, go.

One last push for Pogacar.

Trying to take the
lead in the final meters.

Tadej Pogacar wins.

Fuck!

I actually thought
I was going to win.

Yeah, I was feeling great.

But then in the end he just came
with, I don't know, with 50 meters to go.

And I couldn't answer.

You went a little bit early.

Yeah, I went a little bit early.

But I didn't know that.

I mean, I thought I
saw the sign 250 or 200.

I was like, okay,
if I'm good, I'll try.

No, no, no, but join me.

Super fucking stupid.

Cycling as a whole
is very psychological.

There isn't a kind of an ultra
endurance sport that's at a

professional level like
cycling, where it's also tactical.

Most ultra endurance
sports are individual.

They're not team tactics.

You're not playing
chess on the road.

It's war games, basically.

So far, Tadej Pogacar
has no need to worry.

The last climb,
I kind of liked it.

Enjoy the podium.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Pogacar's the clear favorite.

How can he be beaten?

That is definitely the
question on everybody's lips.

No one has challenged his position
at the top of the general classification.

When you wear the yellow
jersey, you're in first place.

You're the leader, the captain.

You're king of the world.

But you're also
everyone's target.

Pogacar sprints to break
away from Jonas Vengergaard.

Tadej Pogacar easily
holds on to his yellow jersey.

To beat Pogacar, you need to
increase your suffering and your torture.

And you have to reach inside yourself and
pull out everything you've got to somehow

destabilize him psychologically
before going in for the kill.

Were you very impressed by
the performance of Pogacar?

Yeah, of course,
he looks strong.

But, yeah, I mean, I also believe in
myself, and I believe my strength is in

the high mountains, so hopefully
I can be up there with him.

Tadej Pogacar is king of the
tour, but who can challenge him?

Vengergaard is weaker against the
clock and not as good technically, and he's

never actually secured a
major Grand Tour victory.

The only team that might benefit
from this squabble is INEOS Grenadiers.

They're the most professional team, but on
top of that, they have the biggest budget.

It's G.

Mate, I got a grand
for that, I reckon.

What, mate?

What do you reckon?

I got a grand, maybe two grand
for that on eBay immediately.

Do what you can, when
you can, with what you've got.

That's all we ask.

Mandela said that.

It's quite cool, I think.

INEOS, it's like this massive bowling ball
just rolling down the road that's just,

like, you know, smashing
houses and cars to beat them.

You can't just stand in front of them
and try to take them on head-on-head.

You have to, like, sneak around the
back of the massive bowling ball and,

like, stick a dynamite
underneath it or something.

You're right, Thomas is tough.

He has years of experience.

The top three is the
general classification.

Garen Thomas, you've
won the Tour de France.

I can't believe it.

It's insane.

Biggest emotion of your life?

Yeah.

Um...

The last time I cried
was when I got married.

And, uh...

I don't know what's
happened to me.

But, uh...

You've just won
the Tour de France.

I still find it weird now.

If I think back to myself running
home from school when I was

12, if you'd told me then
that I'd actually win the Tour...

Yeah, I don't know what I'd do.

I'd definitely... I'd
probably laugh, actually.

What are the plans of your team?

Try and, uh...

get right up there in the mix and
get the best of it possible, basically.

Um...

A lot can happen.

So, uh... Yeah, we'll see
what... We'll see what we do.

Geraint Thomas has won
the Tour de France, sure.

But he's 36 now.

And to compete with
all those rising stars who

are about ten years his
junior will not be easy.

He's part of the
older generation now.

I think a lot of people have
been writing Geraint Thomas off.

Writing his career off.

He's not going to be
a serious contender.

That he's not a realistic
podium contender.

Geraint has a shot.

We've seen him do it before.

He's perhaps not the favorite.

But it's a bike race and
anything can happen, you know.

Obviously, we'll have to
try and reduce that gap to...

well, Jonas and Pogacar.

But, you know, there's a lot of
other guys in the race as well.

You know, can't just get
solely focused on them.

And...

You know, you get
overtaken from behind as well.

So, it's just...

Yeah, take it as it comes.

See what we can do as a team.

As I've got older, I've
sort of learned to...

take it a bit steady at times.

You know, I think the main thing
I've learned is when to take the risks.

It's... I wouldn't
say I take less.

My wife definitely
doesn't think I take less.

You want to show
where your ramps are?

Yeah?

They're this way.

They are this way, aren't they?

Yeah.

Going that way.

How do you feel watching racing?

I find it stressful.

And you've had your
fair share of crashes.

Mm.

And there was one that kind
of sticks out I was watching,

and you just basically
went off the side of a cliff.

And I was actually working for S4C at the
time, the Welsh language programme, and.

Yeah, I just... I
started crying on it.

Because nobody knew what
happened to you, did they?

So...

CHEERING

Since that point, I was like, I
just can't... I can't really watch it.

So, yeah.

Yeah, it was a good crash, though, that
one, because there was nothing wrong

with me, but it was really dramatic, and,
like... You didn't have to play up to it.

Scrambling back up
the side of the mountain.

Because, like, basically, there was this,
like, netting thing that kind of stopped

me falling any further, which
was pretty good, obviously.

To climb back up and
then got back on my bike,

I only lost, like, 30-odd
seconds or something.

Like, how fast do
you go downhill?

Well, I do over 100k
an hour sometimes.

So... Constantly, like, 80, 90k
an hour, probably, on average.

One person makes
a little mistake and...

..everybody's down.

So, yeah, I
just... I'd rather...

Most wives I know, or girlfriends,
they do watch it, whereas I'd just rather

find out, you'll text me at the end of
the day, and if something's happened,

someone will let me know.

Yeah.

Yeah, come on, then.

Show me the way.

Gary Thomas, he is in
the twilight of his career.

There's no doubt.

I mean, he's at that age, he's had a
long career, he's had a great career.

He is the underdog.

Max, we go this way.

This does feel like the last chance saloon
for him to prove himself and to show the

world what he is, because
he is a great, great rider.

Today, it's the queen stage
of the Tour de France in Iota.

Getting through the mountains in
the Tour de France is obligatory.

Here you see who wants
to win general classification

and who wants to win
the Tour de France.

You have to enjoy suffering.

If you don't suffer,
you won't progress.

Tadej Pogacar, looking
strong in the yellow jersey.

This is his time to be
able to exploit this very

obvious weakness that we're
seeing within Jan Bovizme.

And then... The mountains are
the perfect hunting ground for him.

I still think Pogacar is the strongest
rider in the race, but it's probably the

best chance today for Jan Bovizme to try
to play the team card to sort of dupe him.

Whether Jan Bovizme
are actually aggressive

and confident enough
to do that, I don't know.

I haven't seen that yet.

I hope all of you are
ready for a really big day.

Stage 11, Albeville,
Col du Granon.

It's super, super hard, especially
the last seven and a half kilometres.

Most important, what we
want to do, putting pressure

on UAE, make them work
and attack the yellow jersey.

Jonas, you follow Pogacar and attack him
in the final kilometres when he's worn out.

Hopefully today we really first kill
his team and then get him to work.

That last climb
will be so important.

So hard and so long
will be very, very hard.

Cooling, hydration,
nutrition will be crucial.

I don't think you can
beat today Pogacar alone.

You definitely need your team.

To win a mountain stage,
you always need help.

The plan is definitely to try
and win the stage with Jonas.

I think for Jonas, if
you stay with Pogacar,

really stay calm because
the last climb is so hard.

You're always one step
ahead if you're in his

wheel, you can still kill
him on the last climb.

And tomorrow is still there.

Jonas is really
a strong climber.

Not so many riders can maintain a high
pace for five minutes or for ten minutes

uphill, you know,
while climbing, which is

needed to create a gap
and to maintain that gap.

That's his main weapon.

Good luck.

Thing is with stage 11,
it's the sort of stage that

Tadej Pogacar will have
seen and been excited about.

And that's what everyone's terrified about
Tadej Pogacar because the more sadistic it

is, the more he looks forward to it
because he is, as much as he's a

masochist, he's a sadist
as well, the way he races.

To challenge him, we're going to have to
do something that is courageous and also

it's going to be a roll
of the dice because...

you don't want to poke the bear.

And Tadej Pogacar, if you
poke him, he's going to react.

Pogacar is looking pretty amazing,
but we are still quite close behind.

Today is D-Day and we have a chance
and we want to attack Pogacar today.

Yeah, we have to go for it.

1-2-3, 1-2-3, hello everyone.

Testing radio tour, hello.

Back for today, big day.

And they've started the 11th stage, a
stage full of dangers with four climbs

and perhaps the toughest
pass of the 2022 Tour de France.

Telegrave, Galévié and Granoff.

151 kilometres in total.

If you had to sum up the nature of
today in one sentence, what would it be?

Welcome to hell.

And this is the
Laissez-de-Montvernier Ascent.

The peloton is still being led by the
UAE Emirates riders, Tadej Pogacar,

the yellow jersey team.

We must relax for a little bit.

We must relax.

It's really up to you.

Follow your instinct and let
the others know what you do.

When I interviewed Pogacar, I asked
him, if you were a Jumbo Visma rider,

how would you
attack Tadej Pogacar?

He said, I wouldn't attack him.

I suspect Jumbo may try to anticipate the
race a little bit earlier than the final.

So we need to be
ready on Telegrave.

The yellow jersey peloton reaches
the top of the Col de Telegrave.

Attack of Primoz Roglic.

And Primoz Roglic
accelerates on the descent.

Come on, now we try, eh?

Now we try.

The goal is to isolate
Pogacar from his team.

We want to keep Pogacar by himself and
really try to make him use extra energy.

Pogacar, the yellow jersey, because
he asked for support on the radio,

he's isolated, trapped between
three Jumbo Visma riders.

You are with four
guys with Pogacar, eh?

Also Thomas is there.

Everybody else
dropped for the moment.

Five riders, five
riders on the descent.

Three Jumbo Visma riders, including
Roglic, Pogacar, the yellow jersey,

and Geraint Thomas.

Tadej Pogacar looks around, just
59 kilometers from the finish line.

He's got no
teammates at his side.

Pogacar, he will not give
up and settle for second

because he is trying to
keep the yellow jersey.

So I think tiring out
Pogacar is our best option.

Jonas Wengergaard attacks.

Geraint Thomas
fights his way back.

If your opponent is alone, then you
can start attacking one after the other.

Geraint Thomas giving the space.

And attack now from Roglic.

Pogacar straight
away onto the wheel.

Another attack of Roglic.

Jumbo Visma are trying to
rip this Tour de France apart.

Pogacar goes across.

There he goes.

And he says, right, if
you're going to try and get

rid of me, then I'm
going to rip your legs off.

Tadej Pogacar attacks
hard, tries to get rid

of Roglic, tries to get
rid of Wengergaard.

He may well have
got rid of Pogacar, but

Geraint Thomas, who
is hauling his way back.

Wengergaard gets ready.

He's on the wheel.

And we're not even halfway
up the Col de Colibier.

Races aren't only
won like a marathon.

You have to have the pain
tolerance of a marathon runner.

But then you also have to
be lucid enough, because

this isn't a sport of
just pushing yourself.

This is also a chess
game on wheels.

You have to be reading the race.

Should I save my energy for
the next hill, or is this the hill?

You have to be
constantly thinking.

And you've got to be absolutely
willing to risk everything.

It's Jonas Wengergaard's
turn to attack.

Tadej Pogacar makes
the effort to catch.

Back up to Wengergaard.

Geraint Thomas on his wheel.

They are neck and neck.

It's been years since we've seen
anything like this on the Tour de France.

Primoz Roglic accelerates.

One after the other, the Jumbo
Beastman riders try to destabilize Pogacar.

This is really hurting him.

Doing a great, great job.

Come on, Jonas.

Primoz, come on.

For now, Pogacar
is holding his own.

But for how long will
he be able to stand up,

against the relentless
attacks of Jumbo Beastman?

Just like when a boxer gets hit
and you can see him wavering.

When you're in that situation,
bizarrely, you don't feel tired.

You just want to finish it.

You just want to, well, go after him
and keep going until you knock him out.

Punish him.

It's exactly the
same in cycling.

Take a water.

Take a water, eh?

You must take a water.

Good job.

Take a shower.

Take a shower.

Eh?

Ice.

Ice, Jonas.

Ice, Jonas.

Ice, Jonas.

Give me water.

No, Poggy was begging for water.

Poggy was begging for water, eh?

You really have him
under pressure now.

You really have him
under pressure now.

Cycling over the Alps is
some of the most gruelling

The mountains are hellish,
it's slow, it's long, it's hard.

You're suffering through the whole
race, and at times it feels never-ending.

To win in the mountains,
the bottom line is,

you've got to be one
of the best climbers.

That's no mean feat.

The Yellow Jersey group is
regrouping on the descent.

Pogacar needs to gather his
strength before the day's final ascent.

The Col de Granon, a climb
that is certain to be brutal.

The highest finish
in this 2022 Tour.

An altitude of over 7,800 feet.

A deceptive reprieve on
this highly challenging stage.

We have the Telegraph,
the Galibier, with

the terrible Col de
Granon to wrap it all up.

In

the mountains, you discover
some kind of new feelings.

You have to be
physically super ready.

Primoz Roglic takes the lead from
the start of the Col de Granon climb.

The 10 toughest kilometers of the
Tour de France 2022 have begun.

Suffering is unavoidable.

It's at cycling's very heart.

You have to suffer, and you have to be
able to endure what other people can't.

Looks like Primoz
Roglic is in difficulty.

He seems to be in trouble.

He's falling behind.

Roglic has dropped now.

Primoz Roglic has dropped
from the yellow jersey group now.

Pogacar and Wengergaard
are now head-to-head.

You have to try to find your
competitors' weaknesses.

I know when Tadej is feeling
good, maybe he is suffering.

He doesn't look good, eh?

Pogacar looks like shit.

Come on, Jonas.

You can do it.

There's a steeper spot now.

And it's really hard all the
way from here to the finish.

Come on.

This is my chance.

And now I just have to
go flat out to the finish line.

And another attack
by Jonas Wengergaard.

The Danish rider turns to look.

Pogacar can't respond.

The yellow jersey
is on the ropes.

Come on, Jonas.

Come on.

Pogacar is not reacting.

Pogacar is not reacting.

He's not reacting.

Come on.

You're the best, eh?

Wengergaard widens the gap.

What are they up to?

Wengergaard already has a
39-second lead over Pogacar.

Pogacar doesn't have the
strength to respond to this attack.

And the yellow jersey can't
match the acceleration of Thomas.

I've been able to
perform at altitude.

It's one of the key things when
it comes to winning the tour.

It's just if you can
put up with the pain.

Alone at the front.

Wengergaard is going
through so much pain to try

and secure the yellow
jersey for the first time.

The red zone is really simple.

Because it's the zone you go
into when your body has just had it.

It burns.

You're out of breath.

Your brain is
telling you to stop.

But you just have
to ignore all that.

And push past it.

And just keep going.

Do not stop.

Your head hurts.

Your neck hurts.

Then there's the
psychological pain.

The mental pain.

I have to keep fighting.

To keep believing in myself.

Don't be afraid of the pain.

Keep pushing yourself.

It's Jonas Wengergaard's day of glory
as he wins the stage and the yellow jersey.

And Geraint Thomas
crosses the finish line.

Tadej Pogacar is in trouble.

He's lost close to three minutes
on the Col de Grande on a set.

This is what I dreamt of.

Stayed in the Tour and now
the yellow jersey is incredible.

For Jonas it was amazing.

That was the moment where we
thought, OK, this might really happen.

We might be able to beat
Pogacar and win the Tour de France.

It's very emotional
to take the stage.

I won it for my family.

For my girlfriend
and for my daughter.

It's hard to get oil.

You always lose.

Yeah.

Obviously, Jumbo
were on one today.

They had numbers.

They used it.

And we expected it.

But, whoa.

Hey, mate.

What a ride.

Thanks.

Congrats.

Thanks, Judo.

To beat Thierry Pogacar on stage 11, you're
going to have to do something very special.

And that's exactly
what Jumbo Visma did.

And not just Jonas Fingegaard,
but what the team did.

It was perfect.

We made a plan from the start of the
day and we wanted to make it super hard.

But I would never have done
that without my teammates.

I really have to
thank all of them.

They were all
incredible, strong today.

And I would never have
done this without them.

The yellow jersey is something
to strive for in the Tour.

And if you achieve
that, it brings joy to the

team and it's a thing
you can be proud of.

But if you stay on that cloud of victory
too long, the next day is a disaster.

The peloton is cruel.

It doesn't wait for you.

The peloton continues.

And if you can't keep
up, it will leave you.

I just didn't expect that.

What do you mean?

Cracking like that.

Yeah?

Yeah.

Same can happen to Fingegaard.

They just snap
him at some point.

Jonas Fingegaard is the
new Tour de France leader.

How long will he hold
on to the yellow jersey?

Winning the Alpe d'Huez
is every rider's dream.

Sometimes you want those
younger riders given that opportunity.

American winner on
top of Alpe d'Huez.

That's prime time, baby.

This is going to finally be
the stage where I can do it.

A rider has pulled
away from the peloton.

He's descending
at extreme speed.

The goal is to win
the Tour de France.

There's a crash.

They're in the pack.

One of the main
domestiques of Jonas

Fingegaard has abandoned
the Tour de France.

Fucking cold.