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Pogacar extends Tour de France lead with time trial victory

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Tadej Pogacar during the time trial
Tadej Pogacar during the time trialReuters / Benoit Tessier
Slovenian Tadej Pogacar won the 13th stage of the Tour de France, a 10.9 km individual time trial up to Peyragudes, to extend his overall lead on Friday.

The defending champion dominated the eight-kilometre climb at 7.9% to clock 23 minutes and beat Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard by 36 seconds, with another Slovenian, Primoz Roglic, taking third place 1:20 off the pace.

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.

After his fourth stage win in this year's race, UAE Team Emirates - XRG rider Pogacar leads Vingegaard by 4:07 and Evenepoel by 7:24.

German Florian Lipowitz showed great form again and trails Evenepoel by six seconds.