Tour de France: Pogacar secures victory but Van Der Poel keeps yellow jersey

Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar crosses the finish line. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)

Tadej Pogacar seized control of the Tour de France with victory in the stage five time trial as Geraint Thomas and Primoz Roglic battled through the pain barrier to limit their time losses.

Pogacar, who dramatically rode into yellow in the stage 20 time trial last September, could not quite repeat the feat as Mathieu Van Der Poel put in the time trial of his life to retain the leader’s jersey by eight seconds.