The Netherlands Arsenman won the 14th phase of Tour de France, a mountain trip 182.6 km Betweem Pau and Superbagneres on Saturday, after Slovenia Tadej Pogacar held the yellow jersey of the general leader.

Pogacar took second place beating rival Jonas Vingeard’s chief in a sprint with two men, one minute and 12 seconds after the Ineos Grenadiers Ansman’s knight, extending his superiority over Dane Vingeard in the general classification at 4:13 at the end of the Pyrenean phase.

Vingegaard attacked several times in an attempt to remove Pogacar, but the world champion did not crash and easily beat his rival in the last meters to further cement his rule.

The day belonged to Arsman, however, while the Dutchman went solo from the day’s split to the penultimate climb at Col de Peyreesourde (7.1 km to 7.8%) before hitting his team’s car and crashing a spectator in the middle of the ordinary road chaos on the tournament.

Arsensman never looked back and was held on his way up to superbagneres (12.4 km to 7.3%).

“I really can’t believe it. I got sick after Giro, but I had a good preparation going to my first tour. I had to be patient and expect the mountains to prove my destiny. That’s incredible, the way I did it today,” Said arensman.

“I had amazing legs and am in the form of my life. I thought with Tadej and Jonas in my favorite group three minutes after, I wasn’t sure I had enough, but I kept them out.”

Pelotoni, controlled by the Pogacar Emirates-Xrg team, lowered the gap with a detachment from four to just over two minutes, giving the sense that the Slovenian would go for victory.

But Alensman had other ideas and he went to Col de Peyreesourde himself and never looked back.

Ineos Grenadiers have faced questions about one of their team’s guardians, who is at the center of allegations involving suspected messaging exchanges in 2012 with a doctor linked to the Doping scandal of the infamous Operation Adelass, who shocked the sports world in 2019.

Bradley Wiggins won the tournament in 2012 with the team, which was then known as Team Sky before Chris Frome continued to win four others for the team.

Although no official accusations have been made, the development has made a shadow over the team’s tour campaign, with the guardian nowhere to be seen in recent days.

“Ineos Grenadiers cycling team is aware of the latest media charges about the 2012 season and a member of its staff. These claims have not been presented so far by any appropriate authority,” the team said in a statement.

The team added that it had officially requested information from the International Testing Agency (ITA) and reaffirmed its zero tolerance policy regarding doping violations.

Ita told Reuters that she would not comment on the issue.