Tadej Pogačar TOYING with Everyone on Luz Ardiden | Tour de France Stage 18 2021

Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of Stage 18 of the Tour de France 2021 where the final mountain stage of this year's edition finished on Luz Ardiden with double mountain points available once again, the polka dot jersey was up for grabs if Tadej Pogacar wanted to go after it against Wout Poels.

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Professional road cycling pundit Lanterne Rouge presents highlights of stage 18 / résumé étape 18 / resumen etapa 18 of the Tour de France 2021. Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) wins the stage followed by Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma) and Richard Carapaz (INEOS Grenadiers). Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) keeps the yellow jersey followed by Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo-Visma) and Richard Carapaz (INEOS Grenadiers).

[paulbigbee]

"Darkness my old friend, GG Enric" - chapeau sir, chapeau.

[Hdgehg]

I can’t wait for the tt where pogi just pulls up on a mountain bike and is just like “wanted to challenge myself ya know”

[valiantabello]

"The simplicity of this game amuses me! Bring me your finest wines and cheeses"
Pogaçar, probably

[pixelpotato]

Pog:"Why should I be worried?"
Peloton:"No argument here"

[chrishophoto]

Pogačar is amazing. When I watched that interview, I was shocked at the stupidity of the question, and clearly Pogačar was too! He handled it with grace though.

[rick]

The best part is Pogacar sprinting up the mountain and the on screen stat giving him 9km/h

[MichaelBoogerd]

Imagine how many extra seconds that tuft of hair out of the helmet has already cost him 🤣🤣

[martingledhill]

Valverde 10th - pretty good for a guy almost twice Pogacar's age.

[johantonjuul]

That Pogi interview sure has changed now

[iminc]

Haha, that introduction is absolutely first class. Hats off mate, great production

[Free_Ranger_CT]

Great to see the yellow jersey out front & winning stages. I'm sure Eddy Merckx would approve!

[MrYAMAHA]

Great coverage Lanterne, in my opinion every rider completing this tour is a winner with some more remarkable than others but no losers here.

[GDF]

That interview was cringe. Can they not ask the guy more intelligent questions than "are you worried about someone 6 minutes behind you?". In other years, a 6 minute gap would probably put you out of top 10

[kelldub]

Tell me you used to be a lawyer without telling me you were a lawyer.

"Well-remunerated."

[jodim]

Rafal majka.... Amazing pull 2 days in a row

[FunkensteinsMeunster]

Vingegaard is now making a voodoo doll of Pogi, so he can play with him

[geoffdelperdog]

The first two times, before finally playing it back, I thought the interviewer asked, "Are you worried about being a god?"
Tadej : Why should I be worried?

[JosephLycettCycling]

Pierre Latour was going for the Souvenir Jacques Goddet at the top of the Tourmalet, which is why he was sprinting to get over the top first, as it has quite a lot of prize money attached to it and I think that he got to stand on the podium at the end of the day as well, so it also meant exposure for the team and the sponsors. Not actually a bad idea, considering that he wasn’t going to win the stage and he’s nowhere in the polka dot jersey competition, so he just went over the top in first and then probably didn’t want to take any risks on the descent, so he just went back to the peloton to recover and sat in for as long as possible after going full gas on the Tourmalet.

[iann]

"Why should I be?". YES!!! Finally Tadej sees it's more fun to speak the truth rather than "day by day" or "km by km" like two weeks ago. He needs to keep speaking with this same confidence.

[realSzymon]

Pretty neat snot management from Pogacar in the intro. Chic.