Tadej Pogačar won the 24th Tour de France stage of his career on Tuesday, attacking his rivals on the Col de Pertus, the race’s penultimate climb and soloing to victory at Le Lioran.The result is a form of revenge after he was beaten on this same finish by Jonas Vingegaard in 2024 — and Pogačar now leads the Dane by a huge margin of three minutes and 36 seconds after 10 stages.A large early break formed after Mads Pedersen took maximum points at the intermediate sprint but it failed to carve out much of advantage with UAE controlling the pace of the peloton behind them. Movistar’s Javier Romo was the best of the escape group, cresting the Col de la Griffoul, the Col de Prat de Bouc and the Côte de Murat alone.Romo was caught with 38km remaining, before EF Education-Easypost’s Richard Carapaz counter-attacked and built a lead of around 40 seconds over the top of Puy Mary-Pas de Peyrol, which he extended to over a minute on the technical descent that followed — one which saw both Tom Pidcock and Matteo Jorgenson crash.But just as it looked like Carapaz might have a chance, Pogačar closed the gap with extraordinary ease on the Col de Pertus, setting off at a pace that, once again, no-one else in the Tour peloton could live with, and some fans — who booed him — did not enjoy.Jacob Whitehead and Beren Cross analyze the action.Pogačar’s 900-meter show of strengthPogačar was once again head and shoulders above everyone else at the Tour de France as the road went uphill on stage 10. The Slovenian sealed the 24th Tour stage of his career in what was also his third victory on Bastille Day, and extended his overall lead to three minutes and 36 seconds.After what had been a typically chaotic, up-and-down stage in the Massif Central, with multiple breakaway attempts falling short, Pogačar’s trademark attack came with less than 16km to go. By the time he crossed the finish line, his lead over second-placed Remco Evenepoel was 32 seconds, with Jonas Vingegaard a further 12 seconds back in seventh.Pogačar’s was around 1km from the top of the category one Col de Pertus when he struck out from the bunch. UAE seemed to leave it later than expected to attack as they tried to help white jersey Isaac Del Toro, who was subsequently dropped, to finish with the podium group.Richard Carapaz was around 45 seconds up the road when Pogacar attacked, but his lead disintegrated in the space of about 900m. As the yellow jersey went over the top of the Pertus, his lead over Vingegaard was at 20 seconds.