Tadej Pogacar's towering domination of this year's Tour de France is once again raising eyebrows in a sport long tainted by the spectre of doping. Here AFP Sport looks at the issues surfacing in the wake of the 26-year-old's seemingly inevitable assault on a fourth Tour de France.

Tadej Pogacar set a new record time on Mont Ventoux, resisting a wave of attacks from Visma | Lease a Bike and Jonas Vingegaard and even sprinting away from the Dane by two seconds at the top. “Job done,

Three-time champion Tadej Pogacar will spend Monday's rest day of the 2025 Tour de France savouring his feats in the Pyrenees of southern France that have helped him establish a four-minute lead over his arch rival and two-time victor Jonas Vingegaard.

When the reigning champion suffered a 40 mph crash, his title defense was in jeopardy. Until a man in blue overalls jumped off his motorbike and leapt into action.

Tadej Pogacar continued his charge towards an anticipated fourth Tour de France title when he stretched his overall lead to over four minutes by winning the 13th stage, a lung-busting 10.9-km uphill time trial on Friday.

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Tadej Pogacar delivered another crushing defeat to his Tour de France rivals by dominating an uphill time trial and reinforcing his grip on the yellow jersey on Friday.

Valentin Paret-Peintre kept his cool in a furnace of pressure and heat, delivering a thunderous victory atop the legendary Mont Ventoux to give France its first win in this year's Tour de France during a breathtaking Stage 16 on Tuesday.

Lance Armstrong isn't convinced that Tadej Pogacar is actually struggling. The American analyzed the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France, in which Pogacar smashed the record time on Mont Ventoux, in the podcast The Move alongside his good friend and former teammate,