Tadej Pogacar continued his charge towards an anticipated fourth Tour de France title when he stretched his overall lead to over four minutes by winning the 13th stage, a lung-busting 10.9km uphill time trial on Friday, as Ireland's Ben Healy remained 11th in the general classiciation.
The defending champion dominated the eight-kilometre climb at 7.9% to clock 23 minutes and beat Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard by a massive 36 seconds, a day after leaving his closest rival shattered in the first major mountain stage in the Pyrenees.
Fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic took third place, 1:40 off the pace, while Belgian Remco Evenepoel hung on to third place overall by the skin of his teeth following a disappointing effort that saw him finish 2:39 behind Pogacar.
Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) was 26th in 26:38 to stay 11th in the GC.
On Thursday, Healy struggled in the stifling heat as Pogacar took his yellow jersey on the first true mountain test of this year's race.
After his fourth stage win in this year's race today, UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider Pogacar leads Vingegaard overall by 4:07 and Evenepoel by 7:24.
