With race boss Primoz Roglic apparently in charge of his own Tour de France fate, defending winner Egan Bernal is hanging on for dear life and Friday’s 13th stage left him vacant, but not despondent. The Colombian couldn’t sustain the speed established by Roglic and Tadej Pogacar at the previous two kilometres of their brief, however brutal ascent into the Puy Mary at which the ordinary gradient climbed above 11 percent and peaked at 15 percent. Bernal ended 38 minutes supporting the Slovenian duo, falling on his bicycle searching for atmosphere, and possibly answers also.
