Tour de France: Arensman Pips Top Guns Pogacar and Vingegaard on stage 19 | Tour de France 2025

The Thymen Arensman won a 19th short stage of the Tour de France, from Albertville to La Plagne, after having attacked alone on the final climb. The leader of the race, Tadej Pogacar, without translated by any significant attack, maintained his global advance of Jonas Vingegaard.

The winner of Ineos Grenadiers, whose team asked questions about a staff member involved in an anti -doping investigation linked to his glorious days as Team Sky, won his second victory in the race.

But it was a disappointing scene for the Oscar of Scotland Onley, who after having survived almost all that the tour could throw him, moved away from the positions of the podium in the last moments, after Florian Lipowitz, third, attacked to move with Pogacar and Vingegaard.

With only 22 seconds between them, onley and Lipowitz were inseparable for most of the scene, but when Pogacar launched his first attack with seven kilometers to go, Lipowitz had trouble following. However, the German subsequently turned the tables on onley, taking an additional 40 seconds on the young Scottish on the line to get more likely a third place during his first tour.

In front of them, Arensman, winner of the Pyrean scene of Superbagnères, hoped to reproduce this success with another victory at the top of the scene, but by entering the last two kilometers, his advance began to tumble.

However, the Dutch rider grimacing hung on to the victory of only two seconds while Vingegaard, who said he could win the race, finally attacked Pogacar in the last kilometer to finish right in front of him.

“I am absolutely destroyed,” said an Arensman drained after the scene. “Already to win a tour of the tour, incredible. But now, to win from the general classification group, against the strongest riders in the world, I feel like I was dreaming.”

Arensman said his lack of interest in the global classification had introduced his decision to attack. “I started climbing with the leading group and I was:” I don’t have a GC [interest]Maybe I should just try, maybe they’ll look at each other. “”

From his acceleration series, he said: “I did not take no for an answer … It was Tadej and Jonas. Everyone knows they are the strongest in the world, they are almost extraterrestrials. I cannot believe that I beat them today.”

The scene, initially planned, 130 km out of four climbs was truncated in almost 40 km, after a reform of infected cows led to the elimination of two climbs, the Héry-surgin coast and the collar of seizures.

The Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team from Lipowitz had clearly intended to test the resolution of Onley and when Primoz Roglic attacked the descent of the Cormet de Roselend, the tactic was still isolated the 22-year-old.

While Cold Rain fell on the Valley Road to La Plagne and the Emirates XRG water team continued, the advantage of Roglic was reflected, until it was taken and summarily sent to the foot of the final climb.

During the long ascent, the Pogacar, Vingegaard, Onley and Lipowitz quartet took a regular rhythm, but no significant attack came to the last kilometer, allowing Arensman to succeed in its mission alone.

“I had the kilometers until the end,” said Pogacar. “If someone attacked, I could still accelerate, that’s why I went at a certain pace. But congratulations to Arensman. He was super good. ”

However, Pogacar, which seems tired of the world day by day, admitted that he was “obviously tired”. “It’s not an easy tour, people attack me from the first day to the end, so it’s about staying focused.”

The convoy now begins the trip to Paris, the long way, with a scene from Nantua, at La Jura, in Pontarlier, in the Doubs. Everything is, of course, still possible, in particular on the last Sunday stage through Paris, which reproduces the road on Paris 2024 and includes three towers of the Côte de la Butte Montmartre.

When asked if this stage could present another opportunity to win, the leader of the race looked disdainful. “I hope I just come to Paris with the yellow jersey,” said Pogacar. “I don’t feel like super-energy to think about the race on Sunday. It is a really eventful course and Sunday is Sunday. ”