Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 13 - Chatel-Guyon to Puy Mary Cantal - France - September 11, 2020. Team INEOS Grenadiers rider Egan Bernal of Colombia, wearing the white jersey for best young rider, finishes. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Pool
PUY MARY, France (Reuters) - With race leader Primoz Roglic seemingly in control of his Tour de France destiny, defending champion Egan Bernal is hanging on for dear life and Friday's 13th stage left him empty, but not despondent.
The Colombian could not sustain the pace set by Roglic and Tadej Pogacar in the last two kilometres of the short, yet brutal ascent to the Puy Mary where the average gradient rose above 11% and peaked at 15%.
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