'If you don't attack you can't gain time': Pogačar eyes further GC gains following maiden Tour de France stage win

The Slovenian took his first-ever Tour stage win and moved back up the GC

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Tadej Pogačar announced his Tour de France general classification credentials after a masterful weekend of racing in the Pyrenees, dropping his rivals on stage eight before winning stage nine and vocalising his yellow jersey aspirations.

"Of course I'm thinking about GC, that's why I came here," said the reserved yet self-assured 21-year-old.

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Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.