Refresh
The lowered yellow jersey group involves the highest virtually a minute in arrears. Will Pogačar problem Carapaz for the polka-dots in the present day? No, he is not that a lot of a cannibal. The Ecuadorian is ushered by.
108km to go
Mas accelerates out entrance and Kelderman is dropped, Armirail goes all-out to get again on.
Ineos have nobody in there. Carlos Rodriguez dropped already.
17 riders within the yellow jersey group, 15 seconds down on Armirail, Kelderman, and Mas out entrance, and 2km from the summit of this primary climb.
Soler pushes issues on for UAE now. Armirail sees him from one of many quite a few hairpins on this climb, and waves his arm in frustration. ‘You mentioned you were not going to do that’, he is considering.
UAE are attentive right here as Ciccone will get on board with the accelerations. Loads of the highest 10 on GC getting concerned right here.
The yellow jersey group splits once more below that newest push. A extremely chaotic begin right here on a cat-2 climb on a day when Pogačar mentioned he’d permit a breakaway to go clear.
Carapaz assaults! And Jorgenson hits out too! Tempo is lifted.
Enric Mas (Movistar) assaults now because the tempo eases off within the yellow jersey group.
113km to go
Derek Gee – eighth total – has gone with Kelderman and now Bruno Armirail units off for AG2R. Behind, UAE are actually setting tempo in a closely fragmented GC group that has swallowed a lot of the break.
Wilco Kelderman units off now because the yellow jersey approaches. Riders in all places right here.
And that yellow jersey group is coming throughout to the break!
There are solely 25 riders within the yellow jersey group, with loads of splits on this climb.
We are able to see Adam Yates up entrance for UAE, Matteo Jorgenson for Visma.
The Col de Braus is a category-2 climb measuring 10km at a mean gradient of 6.6%>
A number of new additions to the lead group as we hit the climb. Full composition on the way in which shortly.
The highway now dips down forward of the climb correct and we’ve this 14-man lead group, a bigger pack, and a gruppetto that is already forming with the sprinters.
14 riders on this entrance break up being pushed by Powless.
The peloton is splitting right here.
We’re on a kicker forward of the Col de Braus and EF are attempting to tear it up already, with Powless now setting a tempo for Carapaz.
That six-man break has been swallowed up as we begin to climb.
12 groups have gained a stage at this Tour. That leaves 10 that have not:
Bora are actually chasing within the peloton, at 15 seconds. Hindley seemed to be in that transfer however then dropped again, and his group are actually on the again foot. They have not gained a stage at this yr’s race and misplaced their chief – and star signing – Primož Roglič to damage, in order that they’ll be determined to get one thing out of this race.
Waerenskjold and Hindley drop away as Neilson Powless, Hugo Houle, Anthony Turgis and Jordan Jegat come throughout to Costa and Cort to make a six-man group.
Waerenskjold is now joined by his teammate Magnus Cort. Rui Costa and Jai Hindley are hitting out with extra now leaping from the pack.
Soren Waerenskjold takes off solo for Uno-X as issues cool down within the bunch after the opening flurry. Loads of riders biding their time right here.
Uno-X look eager right here, EF as nicely.
The race is underway
Right here we go then. Race director Christian Prudhomme rises from the sunroof as we method kilometre-zero.
We’re edging nearer to kilometre zero so we’ll be correctly underway in just some minutes.
And this is Pogačar’s response after yesterday’s victory, his fourth of this Tour (and fifteenth of all) and one which successfully sewed up a 3rd yellow jersey.
This is the race chief firstly a little bit earlier
They’re off
The riders have all signed on and have gathered on the beginning line – they will be rolling very shortly. We have now a prolonged impartial zone in the present day so racing correct is anticipated to get underway in round 20 minutes.
There will be a race on the entrance and there will be a race on the again. Arnaud Démare missed the time lower yesterday however Mark Cavendish fights on, with yet another gruppetto slog to go earlier than he can full his ultimate Tour de France. A slight disgrace that he will not get to cap it off in Paris, however with that record-breaking thirty fifth stage win within the bag his farewell Tour has been a convincing success.
This is Jonas Vingegaard’s response after yesterday’s deadly blow.
Positive is a scorching one
A look above and you need to see the particular jersey wearers, and so they’re just about set in stone now. Pogačar clearly has yellow firmly on his shoulders, likewise Evenepoel has no shut competitors within the younger rider classification, and Biniam Girmay can’t lose the inexperienced jersey for factors classification winner. Richard Carapaz took the polka-dots yesterday after main over the Cime de la Bonette, and whereas it is not mathematically sure, solely Pogačar may divest him of the mountains jersey, so he for one will likely be hoping the Slovenian is pretty much as good as his phrase.
The one factor is, the Tour is over. Something can occur after all, and Tadej Pogačar might want to keep upright and wholesome in the present day, however barring a unprecedented flip of circumstance, he’ll be topped as a three-time champion in Good tomorrow. Even he has already acknowledged as a lot, ignoring the usual cautious tone of GC leaders and vowing benefit from the time out on climbs he is aware of nicely, residing in Monaco. His closest rival Jonas Vingegaard – not that shut at over 5 minutes down – has virtually admitted defeat too, so there’s little or no suspense left within the battle for the yellow jersey.
We’re already in Good, the place this Tour de France unusually concludes on Sunday, however we’re heading again inland and into the Alpes Maritimes for what’s an enormous outdated day of climbing contemplating we’re not within the excessive Alps. Yesterday was marked by excessive altitude HC climbs, and whereas we do not get close to the 2000-metre barrier in the present day and are restricted to cat-1s, we do have extra climbing in complete, with 4,600 metres of elevation (in comparison with 4,400 yesterday). With a distance of 132.8km, that leaves little room for flat roads, and the fixed up-and-down ought to make for an action-packed time out.
Round an hour to go till the stage will get underway in Good.
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And a glance again on the stage 19 end result and present basic classification.
This is the route profile and map of in the present day’s stage 20.
Round 90 minutes to go earlier than the beginning of in the present day’s ultimate mountain stage.
Bonjour and welcome to Cyclingnews’ stay protection of stage 20 of the 2024 Tour de France!
