Paris, July 20 -- World champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) showed his charitable side on Saturday after foregoing a chance to complete a hat-trick of successive wins in the Pyrenees on a sodden, cold and gloomy day on the Tour de France.

The main beneficiary of the yellow jersey's largesse was the Dutchman Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), who held on for a maiden Tour stage win from the day's breakaway as Pogacar willingly settled for second place ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) at the ski resort of Superbagneres, back on the race for the first time in 36 years, as per a press release from the Tour de France.

On a day that Belgium's Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) abandoned on the Col du Tourmalet, the ...