Cycling-Unbreakable Pogacar keeps his cool to stay in command

[ASFN Admin]

Tadej Pogacar fears the heat more than his main Tour de France rivals and now that the race is heading towards the cooler French Pyrenees, the defending champion's challengers may have missed their best chance to unsettle him. The Slovenian suffered as the sun beat down on Mont Ventoux last week, showing rare signs of weakness, but as temperatures went beyond 30 degrees Celsius on the climbs leading to Andorra Pogacar did not flinch. Yesterday was super hot, Mont Ventoux was super hot, that was the scariest thing for me before the Tour.

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