Tour de France: Primoz Roglic takes yellow as Pogacar wins stage nine

• Jumbo-Visma rider leads on day of double joy for Slovenia
• Tadej Pogacar salutes ‘really crazy’ win on 153km stage

Adam Yates lost his grip on the yellow jersey as Slovenian cyclists swept the board in the second Pyrenean stage of this year’s Tour de France, with Primoz Roglic taking the overall lead and a 21-year-old Tour debutant, Tadej Pogacar winning the 153km ninth stage of the race to Laruns in the Pyrenees.

UAE Emirates’ Pogacar, who won three stages and finished third overall in last year’s Vuelta a España, is one of the hottest young talents in cycling and Roglic acknowledged that his compatriot now poses a real threat. “Definitely yes – he is really strong at the moment but it’s still just the first nine days and a lot of things will happen before arriving in Paris,” the Jumbo-Visma leader said.

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