
Tadej Pogačar won an "unforgettable" mountainous 14th stage of the Tour de France 2026 on Saturday amidst huge crowds in the Vosges to extend his lead over Jonas Vingegaard to four and a half minutes.
It was the world champion's fourth stage win in this 113th edition of the Grande Boucle, while his teammate Isaac del Toro pipped teenager Paul Seixas to second place, with Vingegaard fourth at the end of the 155-kilometer stage from Mulhouse to Le Markstein Fellering.
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"I must say thanks to all the fans that came to the side of the road, it was really something unforgettable," the 27-year-old Slovenian said. "To see all the crowds on the hills, over the mountain... I (have) never seen something like this. All the riders, we have such a massive respect towards each other. I think we all put on a great show. It's nice to see this kind of racing."
Four-time champion Pogačar had already stamped his authority on this Tour in the previous mountain stages, but he once again emphasized his superiority with another devastating late attack.
This was his 25th stage victory at the Tour de France since his debut in 2020.
Behind him, the battle for the minor placings produced some thrills.
Frenchman Seixas took four bonus seconds on the line, 38 seconds after Pogacar, which proved enough to move him up to fourth in the overall standings and strip Spaniard Juan Ayuso of the best young rider's white jersey - but only by three seconds.
Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel held onto third place overall after finished strongly to come home only four seconds behind Vingegaard, despite having been the first of the top 7 contenders to be dropped on the final climb, the 11.2-kilometer Col du Haag.
He leads Seixas by just 15 seconds for the final podium position.
But the gap between Vingegaard in second overall and Del Toro in seventh is now just 1:20, with Evenepoel's Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe teammate Florian Lipowitz in sixth.
Tadej Pogacar's Attack In Stage 14 Of The Tour de France 2026 Was Inevitable
A group of more than 30 riders went on the attack from the opening climb of the stage, the 21.5-kilometer Grand Ballon - the big ball, so named for the rounded shape of its summit.
But by the summit, six riders had detached themselves from the group, and four of them would stay out in front until the Col du Haag.
The rest were swallowed up by the peloton, led by Pogacar's UAE Emirates-XRG team, on the Ballon d'Alsace climb in inclement weather that alternated between warm sunshine and heavy showers - a welcome change from the heatwave that made the opening 10 days of the race so grueling.
The six stretched out a maximum lead of three minutes, but UAE kept that leash well under control.
Irishman Ben Healy was the first rider to drop out of the break, before Norwegian Anders Johannessen, whose twin brother, Tobias, remained, did likewise.
By the foot of the final climb, the four leaders had a gap of about 1:20 over a peloton of around 35 riders.
Johannessen and Richard Carapaz dropped their two companions within a kilometer of the start of the climb, but an acceleration by Vingegaard saw them caught 2.5 kilometers from the summit.
Pogačar then launched his inevitable winning move 1.5 kilometers from the top, with only a fast 6-kilometer run to the finish line after that.
Tour de France 2026 Stage 14 Results – Top 25
- Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 4:00:07 (B10)
- Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 4:00:45 (B6)
- Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 4:00:45 (B4)
- Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:00:51
- Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:00:55
- Florian Lipowitz (Lidl - Trek) – 4:00:57
- Juan Ayuso (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:00:57
- Richard Carapaz (EF Education - EasyPost) – 4:01:25
- Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) – 4:01:47
- Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl - Trek) – 4:01:47
- Lenny Martinez (Bahrain - Victorious) – 4:01:48
- Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step) – 4:03:37
- Yannis Voisard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 4:03:37
- Egan Bernal (Netcompany INEOS) – 4:03:37
- Adam Yates (Lidl - Trek) – 4:03:37
- Derek Gee-West (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 4:03:37
- Sepp Kuss (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:03:37
- Tom Pidcock (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 4:03:41
- Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) – 4:05:34
- Davide Piganzoli (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 4:05:34
- Einer Rubio (Movistar Team) – 4:05:34
- Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 4:09:58
- Jai Hindley (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 4:10:22
- Quinn Simmons (Lidl - Trek) – 4:11:54
- Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal Quick-Step) – 4:12:08
Tour de France 2026 Overall Standings – Top 25 After Stage 14
- Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 51:18:28 (B46)
- Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 51:22:58 (B12)
- Remco Evenepoel (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 51:23:32 (B10)
- Paul Seixas (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 51:23:47 (B8)
- Juan Ayuso (Lidl - Trek) – 51:23:50
- Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 51:24:12
- Isaac del Toro (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 51:24:18 (B20)
- Tom Pidcock (Lidl - Trek) – 51:26:03
- Mattias Skjelmose (Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) – 51:26:27 (B8)
- Lenny Martinez (Bahrain - Victorious) – 51:26:53
- Egan Bernal (Netcompany INEOS) – 51:34:23
- Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies) – 51:34:31
- Ilan Van Wilder (Soudal Quick-Step) – 51:34:51
- Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) – 51:35:08 (B6)
- Richard Carapaz (EF Education - EasyPost) – 51:37:39 (B4)
- Davide Piganzoli (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 51:37:43
- Yannis Voisard (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) – 51:37:44
- Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 51:40:34
- Brandon McNulty (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) – 51:43:00
- Sepp Kuss (UAE Team Emirates - XRG) – 51:54:16
- Sean Quinn (EF Education - EasyPost) – 52:00:15
- Tiesj Benoot (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 52:05:00
- Nicolas Prodhomme (Decathlon CMA CGM Team) – 52:10:57
- Jai Hindley (Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe) – 52:21:17
- Carlos Verona (Lidl - Trek) – 52:23:05
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