Emmanuel Langellier, media365: published on Thursday July 10, 2025 at 7:24 p.m.
Mathieu Van der Poel recovered the yellow jersey on Thursday but he finished the 6th stage in a dirty condition.
He finished completely rinsed! Cooked from Cuit. Mathieu van der Poel is dressed in yellow, again, Thursday evening, but the state in which he finished the 6th stage of the Tour de France has something to question. The 6th episode of the Grande Boucle 2025, disputed between Bayeux and Vire over 201.5 kilometers, saw the superb solo victory of Ben Healy, who started his triumph at around forty kilometers from the finish and VDP find the tunic of the general classification for a small second. The Dutchman took the yellow jersey of little to the Slovenian who had dispossessed him the day before. But it was difficult to see after arrival.
Van der Poel: “With the heat, I was really on my limit”
Van der Poel seemed to have left to have a more imposing advance on arrival in Normandy, but the training runner flanked in important proportions in the final accompanied by the heat of the day. If Pogacar was not necessarily the most unhappy man in the world with the fact of no longer dressing the mythical outfit – it will unload him from the protocol and save him precious time for recovery (1h30 to 2 hours of winning all the same!) – Van der Poel, drifting when approaching Vire, was still satisfied to adorn himself with yellow. “I am happy to take it (the yellow jersey), even for a second. It is good to be able to put it tomorrow (Friday) again, especially with the Mûr-de-Bretagne, said VDP on France Télévisions in reference to the place where he had won and took the yellow jersey in 2021. I had no great legs. With the heat, I was really at my limit. »»
“If Pogacar and Vingegaard go deep tomorrow, it will be difficult for the whole peloton to follow”
How will he now appear on the 7th stage? It may be cotton … “It’s hard to say. If Tadej (Pogacar) and Jonas (Vingegaard) go all the way tomorrow, it will be difficult for the whole peloton to follow. And with today’s efforts (Thursday), it will be difficult to recover my best legs. But you never know. I’m just going to savor a new day in yellow. »Thursday evening, in addition to his little second ahead of the Ogre Pogacar, Mathieu Van der Poel is 43 seconds ahead of Remco Evenepoel, 1 minute on the French Kévin Vauquelin and 1’14 on Vingegaard.