Yates fadesas Roglic dons yellow

Adam Yates surrendered the yellow jersey as prerace favourite Primoz Roglic assumed control of the Tour de France on a thrilling stage nine to Laruns.

It was a Slovenian one-two as Roglic’s good friend Tadej Pogacar beat the Jumbo-Visma rider on the line at the end of a ferocious 153km stage from Pau which found Yates’ breaking point after four days in yellow.

The Bury rider lost touch with the main group of contenders on the Col de Marie Blanque as Roglic and Pogacar broke free on the final climb of the day along with defending champion Egan Bernal and Mikel Landa.

Yates finished in a group some 54 seconds after the leaders to send him tumbling down the general classification,