Tour de France Stage 12 ANALYSIS: How Tadej Pogacar banished Hautacam demons to reclaim yellow 🟨

The 2025 Tour de France came alive on Stage 12 as Tadej Pogacar delivered an outrageous solo win on Hautacam. Jonas Vingegaard battled valiantly up the final climb but must overturn three and a half minutes if he wants to get his hands on a third yellow jersey. It was a sobering day for Remco Evenepoel, who was twice dropped, and Ben Healy, who blew up spectacularly and lost the yellow jersey.

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Right, today’s stage was everything we expected it to be without the time gaps. It started really on colder solo and let’s have a look at that because what happened was Valisabach decided to take things up right from the bottom and set a very hard tempo but something unexpected happened and that was these two here Simon Yates and Matteo Jorgensson going out the back. It was Yates that waited for Jorgensson the rider here. I don’t know why they quite waited. maybe to keep him in the time, maybe to keep him up there. But if you’re having a bad day, you’re this early on and you’ve already committed to your plan to make things hard. They went completely against it. Slowed things down. And as you can see, Septus on the front of the Pelaton, looking back, waiting for him. Ultimately, what Visma did here was go against everything they’ve done so far. They wanted to make the race hard. They wanted to make it aggressive. But when they lost that strength in numbers, they went back to it and just set a tempo that was comfortable enough, but I don’t think hard enough for Tad Pagatcha. Later on in the stage, we came to the final climb of the day, the hotcom. And this is where Vizma ultimately just had nothing left in him. Only really Yonas Vingo was left in this group. And this is the pull of Tim Wellins. Soon as he got on the climb, they just started to ride hard, aggressive. Wellins was in the brake earlier on in the day. So as soon as they got onto this climb, they opened up the glass, they put the foot down, and Wellins just started dropping riders left, right, and center. at Sepkus going out the back that which left Yonasfingo all on his own. The last attack of the day was this attack and let me just say the man on the front Jonathan he’s been up there in bunch sprints before. So the turner speed from him is unbelievable at this point here. Adam Yates looks like he’s coming past him but he f just accelerated to get Tad Pagatcha onto the wheel and then that was the go time. Off we go. Big acceleration and this here would have probably been about 800 watts 900 watts for around 15 20 seconds. And so for Yonas already, he’s riding like Pagachu was already attacking with a turn that Nias was doing. So pulling him right up to that red zone. And when Taday went, it was already like he’d started attacking beforehand. So when Nias eventually pulls off, that was it already. The gap was open and Tad, he didn’t even get out the saddle in this effort. Comes around this corner. The speed was high already. The gap at the start looked like it was manageable for him. But after that, after that 10 seconds went to 15, 20, there was only one man that could finish it off. But it was Tad Pagatcha and he did in a fine fashion. 2 minutes 10 seconds to Yonas finger go. The time’s been taken already. Can he take more time? Will he blow up? We’ll get all these questions later on in the race. But that was a demonstration from the world champion today. Unbelievable.