Thank gawd a worthy KOM now. Enough of that pretender
While I give credit to Pogačar for recognising the chance to get the GPM and therefore give himself something out of this race even if it goes wrong, this stage now has to live up to its potential.
If the stage lives up to his potential and Tadej takes the maillot à pois, all is fine. But if we just get a Jumbo-Visma tempo ride, it is a travesty, because Benoît Cosnefroy has killed himself ten times over trying to protect that jersey and him riding in with the polka dots over 4 hours down on GC and in the 130s overall would have been the KOM the race deserved.