⁍ Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar pulls off a major upset at the Tour de France by stunning compatriot Primoz Roglic.

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⁍ Pogacar wins the final individual time trial against the clock to claim the overall leader’s yellow jersey.

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⁍ The 21-year-old leads second-placed Roglic by 59 seconds going into Sunday’s final stage.

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– Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar pulled off a major upset at the Tour de France by stunning compatriot Primoz Roglic to claim the overall leader’s yellow jersey with a monumental victory in the final individual time trial on Saturday. The 21-year-old won the 36.2-km solo effort against the clock as Roglic, who had started the day with a 57-second lead in the general classification, cracked in the uphill section, a 5.9-km climb at an average gradient of 8.5%. “I think I’m dreaming,” Pogacar told Reuters. “I feel like my head is exploding.” Pogacar, who is set to become the youngest winner of the Tour since Henri Cornet in 1904, clocked 55 minutes 55 seconds—the perfection of the numbers matching his performance. Roglic only took fifth place, 1:56 off the pace after what appeared to be a cautious start turned into a major meltdown. The 30-year-old, who had controlled the whole race with his dominant Jumbo-Visma team, imploded on the climb and crossed the line with a livid face before sitting down on the road. Pogacar has finally been rewarded for his aggressive tactics in the mountains, where he regained some of the time he had lost in crosswinds on a flat stage. His upcoming victory is all the more remarkable in that, for most of the race, he was without his two lieutenants in the mountains after the Italians pulled out. More astounding still was that Roglic had the service of the most formidable squad in the race.