Stage 13 guide - 10.9km mountain time trial from Loudenvielle to Peyragudes
Tadej Pogacar wins by 36 seconds to claim fourth stage victory this year
Reigning champion stretches lead over Jonas Vingegaard to more than four minutes
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Image source, EPAThat's all from another Tadej Pogacar masterclass as the Slovenian superstar wins the mountain time trial on stage 13.
The reigning champion beat Jonas Vingegaard by 36 seconds to increase his overall lead over the Dane to four minutes seven seconds.
Do join us tomorrow when we see if Vingegaard can possibly make a response on the testing 182.6km mountain stage from Pau to a summit finish at Luchon-Superbagneres.
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Wow! I didn't think it would be possible in this day for a GC contender to overtake Cav's stage wins record, but he could achieve that before he turns 30...just insane.
Shrey, London
Tadej Pogacar is the current road world champions and now looks on course for a fourth Tour de France win, and he's still only 26.
Tadej Pogacar on whether he's surprised by his lead: "Today I decided to go without radio. The tactic was all out from the beginning to the top so I was relying on the timers at the time-checks. At the first one I saw that I was already five seconds in green and this gave me motivation.
"The second one was bigger so I knew I was in a good place and I would have a good time trial.
"Of course, I was thinking not to blow up in the first part. I almost did in the end but maybe in the last two-three kilometres I took a deep breath, reset a bit and dropped a bit of the power.
"I knew that the last kick is super, super steep and I wanted to come to the last part still with somewhat good legs."
Image source, EPATadej Pogacar on his choice of bike: "This was the biggest decision to make, which bike today. We're racing on road bikes for most of the year, 99% of the time, so in the end we did the calculations.
"If you cannot push on a TT bike as much as you can on a road bike then it's about the same time. I decided to be more comfortable, the way I was riding the past 12 stages with the same bike. In the end it all worked for me."
Image source, Getty ImagesStage winner and race leader Tadej Pogacar: "I'm super happy. This time trial was quite a big question mark already in December for me.
"I wanted everything to be perfect and the team delivered for me to be on the top.
"I started the day good, had an easy day in the morning and then nice preparation. I was really targeting to go from start to finish all out and tried to smash it as much as possible on the pedals.
"I almost blew up in the end but I saw the timer at the top and it gave me an extra push because I saw that I was going to win."
Tadej Pogacar has claimed his fourth stage win of this year's Tour and become the youngest rider to claim 21 Tour stage wins.
Mark Cavendish set the outright record last year with 35 and Pogacar is already more than halfway to beating the Manx Missile's total.
Tadej Pogacar claims victory on the mountain time trial, crossing the line in bang on 23 minutes.
That's 36 seconds quicker than Jonas Vingegaard, his main rival for the GC title.
Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
But Tadej Pogacar will stretch his lead over Jonas Vingegaard in the GC standings.
Leading time: Jonas Vingegaard - 23mins 36secs
Jonas Vingegaard has gone past Remco Evenepoel on the final climb. What a boost as he aims to hang on to second place.
The Dane betters Primoz Roglic's time.
Image source, Getty ImagesLeading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Jonas Vingegaard can now see Remco Evenepoel up the road.
Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Oscar Only is currently fifth fastest, 29 seconds quicker than Kevin Vauquelin, which is enough for the British youngster to leapfrog him to fifth in the GC standings.
Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Florian Lipowitz has now crossed the line, 35 seconds slower than his Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe team-mate Primoz Roglic to go into second.
Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Looks like Remco Evenepoel has had an issue with his chain. He's had to slow down and shuffle it back on while still on motion.
Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
But it doesn't look like Primoz Roglic will hang on as Tadej Pogacar is flying.
He's the quickest at the second time-check too, 23 seconds quicker than Jonas Vingegaard and 52 quicker than Roglic.
Leading time: Primoz Roglic - 24mins 20secs
Luke Plapp is finally tipped out of the hotseat.
Primoz Roglic goes 38 seconds quicker for the best time yet.
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Agreed, Visma need something special - even in the Giro Yates profited from the leaders marking each other out of the race, but there’s no one anywhere near Pogacar so it’s hard to see even something like that happening in the tour. Pogacar is just too strong!
Lawrence
Leading time: Luke Plapp - 24mins 58secs
Felix Gall crosses the line and narrowly misses out on the top three so far.