Pogacar crushes rivals on opening Tour of Switzerland stage (opens in new tab)

Despite there being four more days of mostly mountainous racing to come this week, Pogacar effectively ended all suspense halfway through the opening 144km stage, which started and finished in Sondrio in northern Italy. After his UAE Team Emirates squad had pushed the pace over the first climb of the day, Pogacar simply rode off the front of the peloton at the foot of the second with 71.5km still to go, quickly catching and passing the last remaining breakaway rider, Fredrik Dversnes. None of...