The "white flag" of rivals is not yet waving, but the "voice of the master" resonates at the Tour de France, because we already knew how ruthless Pogacar is and the Slovenian's statements confirm it: «Every time there's an opportunity to win, the chance must be seized...» - reports Ciro Scognamiglio in La Gazzetta, the pink newspaper that pays attention to a Jonas in glass-half-full mode (But Vingegaard smiles: "I did my best" the headline of the side article within the usual two pages dedicated to the Grande Boucle).

On the Corriere front, Marco Bonarrigo recalls how the organizers' prediction was contradicted, who spoke of a stage "soft like all those of the first week to not stress the riders". Above all, the cycling signature notes again "King Pogacar V decided that no, the day's breakaway couldn't reach the finish line and that yes, his Emirati vassals had to start pulling to remove the yellow jersey from Jonas Vingegaard's shoulders".

In Repubblica, Cosimo Cito fixes the concept of "parallel lives" of the Slovenian and the Dane, who give life to a déjà vu that however doesn't bore: "Pogacar and Vingegaard first and second is now a meme, an image seen and reseen (exactly 20 times)" you read on Rep. It falls to Pier Augusto Stagi on Il Giornale to underline: "After the little gift given to Del Toro last Sunday, the world champion takes what he could already take: stage and yellow jersey. Opening the door for him, needless to say, the flying Mexican, who gives him a crazy sprint: worthy of applause".

From the furnace of Les Angles, the correspondent of L'Equipe Alexandre Roos puts it this way: "many thought that the big teams would let Monday's stage run - and that the UAE, in particular, would refrain from forcing their hand to give everyone a bit of breathing room". And yet...

GAZZETTA DELLO SPORT
POGACAR THE MASTER
There is the truest and deepest sense of sporting competition in the first words that Tadej Pogacar utters after yet another masterclass move: «Every time there's an opportunity to win, the chance must be seized...», says the world champion, for whom apparently two days without celebrating in person are already too much. And so here he is putting the world on his shoulders in the third stage of the Tour de France, a finish line on a slight climb at Les Angles (Eastern Pyrenees). (Ciro Scognamiglio)

CORRIERE DELLA SERA
THE LAW OF KING POGACAR. REMOTE-CONTROLLED ATTACK TO STRIP THE YELLOW FROM VINGO
What's worse than pedaling at 40 degrees in the Pyrenees with the fear that one of the announced fire hotspots might appear and legs weak after two terrible Barcelona days? There's the fact that yesterday, in the middle of a third stage of the Tour that the organizers had announced "soft like all those of the first week to not stress the riders" King Pogacar V decided that no, the day's breakaway couldn't reach the finish line and that yes, his Emirati vassals had to start pulling to remove the yellow jersey from Jonas Vingegaard's shoulders. (Marco Bonarrigo)

REPUBBLICA
POGACAR AND VINGEGAARD ARE EQUALS
THE SLOVENIAN IN YELLOW ON THE PYRENEES
Pogacar and Vingegaard first and second is now a meme, an image seen and reseen (exactly 20 times in the parallel lives of the two). What is instead unprecedented is the tie in the general classification of the Tour between the Slovenian and the Dane: same time. The yellow jersey, however, has passed to Tadej's shoulders due to the sum of placements (3rd, 2nd, 1st) in the first three stages of the Tour de France that can elevate him to the club of five-time winners. (Cosimo Cito)

IL GIORNALE
HERE'S POGACAR, STAGE AND JERSEY, BUT IT'S HEAT ALERT
There may also be the problem of fires and "canicule", but at the Tour the real arsonist is always and only him: Tadej Pogacar. After the little gift given to Del Toro last Sunday, yesterday the world champion takes what he could already take: stage and yellow jersey. Opening the door for him, needless to say, the flying Mexican, who gives him a crazy sprint: worthy of applause. «If I can win it's right to try: I felt good, I had an opportunity and I seized it», explains the world champion who updates his very personal cycling accounting. (Pier Augusto Stagi)

L'EQUIPE
LIKE A BULLDOZER
Crushed on Sunday by Pogačar and Del Toro's pincer maneuver and demoralized at the end of the second stage of the Tour de France, many thought that the big teams would let Monday's stage run - and that the UAE, in particular, would refrain from forcing their hand to give everyone a bit of breathing room. (Alexandre Roos)