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Tour de France 2022 – The Essential Preview

All you need to know about the route, contenders, and storylines for the 109th edition of the Grande Boucle

When the route for the 2022 Tour de France was revealed last October, Tadej Pogačar , winner of the past two editions, was thrilled to see such a testing but balanced route. "It's pretty great," said the Slovenian. "From the first stage to the last stage, we have everything: sprints, echelons, cobbles, big climbs, small climbs and time trials.”    

Ten days out from the Grand Départ , Pogačar remains the favourite for the 109th edition of the Tour de France, with all his rivals still trying to find a weakness in his armour and a way to defeat him during the three weeks between Copenhagen and Paris.  

Pogačar's multitude of talents and his ability to race aggressively appear perfectly matched to the route of the 2022 Tour de France.

The first week of racing has been described as a series of Classics, and Pogačar’s victories at Strade Bianche, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, and Il Lombardia, along with his aggressive ride and fourth place at this year’s Tour of Flanders, indicate he could gain time on many of his rivals even before the first mountain stage.

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The 2022 Tour also returns to La Planche des Belles Filles, where Pogačar cruelly snatched victory from Primož Roglič in 2020, and then heads into the high Alps with tough mountain finishes on the Col du Granon and at L’Alpe d’Huez. There are then further mountain finishes at Peyragudes and Hautacam in the Pyrenees.

The route, however, is bookended by time trials, with a short 13.2km opener in Copenhagen and a rather more pivotal 40.7km test in Rocamadour ahead of the procession to Paris on July 24. 

Only Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Miguel Indurain and Chris Froome have won three consecutive Tours. The 2022 race is arguably Pogačar’s Tour to lose but history has taught us that anything can happen during the three weeks of the Tour de France.

It will be up to Roglič and his Jumbo-Visma co-leader Jonas Vingegaard - along with Ineos Grenadiers' trio of Adam Yates, Dani Martínez and Geraint Thomas - to find a way to defeat Pogačar, while a host of other contenders hope for a miracle.

The Tour de France 2022 Route

The 109th Tour de France starts on July 1 in Copenhagen, Denmark and ends in Paris on Sunday July 24 after 3328km of racing. As Pogačar suggested, the 21 days really do include every aspect of bike racing.  

For the first time since 2017, the Tour begins with a city-centre time trial in the capital, followed by two flat stages across the country from Roskilde to Nyborg and then south from Vejle to Sønderborg. The riders will fly to France on Sunday evening after stage 3 and enjoy an extra rest day before starting the real lap of France.

Copenhagen is arguably the best bike city in the world, where 1.4 million people a day travel by bike - more than in the whole of the USA. The Danish capital will celebrate cycling during the Grand Départ, with a party atmosphere expected for the opening time trial.

The 13.2km city-centre course includes 18 corners and visits the Little Mermaid and other landmarks but Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) will have little time to enjoy the views as he dives through the corners at close to 54km/h. The world time trial champion is the favourite to win and so pull on the first yellow jersey but could be challenged by Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and other time triallists willing to take risks in the corners.

The overall contenders will also be fighting for every second, with Roglič hoping to gain a psychological advantage on Pogačar, while everyone else tries to limit their losses on the two Slovenians.

The opening road race stages of the Tour are always tense, crash-filled affairs and stage 2 to Nyborg should be no different. The road along the northern coast will be spectacular, as will the final 18km on the Great Belt Fixed Link bridge that connects Zeeland with Funen. If the wind is blowing, then positioning will be vital to avoid crashes in the peloton, while echelons could form on the exposed roads and on the long bridge to the finish.

The 182km third stage should be a calmer affair and a sprint finish, with Fabio Jakobsen (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl), Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal), Sam Bennett (Bora-Hansgrohe), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Fenix), Peter Sagan (TotalEnergies) and their respective lead-out trains to clash in a high-speed finish.

Racing returns on Tuesday July 5 with stage 4 near the northern French coast via an inland loop between Dunkirk and Calais. The 171km stage includes several hills and the Cap Blanc Nez climb on the white cliffs just 10km from the finish.

Things get far more serious for the overall contenders on stage 5, which includes 11 sectors and a total 19.4km of Paris-Roubaix cobbles. They come in the second half of the 153.7km stage and could, like in previous years, cause crashes, significant time gaps, heartbreak and glory for the winner.  

“It can go terribly wrong or it can go okay. You won’t win the Tour here, but you can lose the Tour,” Pogačar predicted after his reconnaissance of the route.

Alps, Pyrenees, and a final TT

After tackling the cobbles a 220km hilly stage in Lorraine lies in wait before the first summit finish of the race – the stage 7 test up to Super Planche des Belles Filles.

La Planche des Belles Filles was first climbed in the 2012 Tour de France when Chris Froome won the stage and Bradley Wiggins took the yellow jersey, and last in 2020 when Pogačar broke Roglič's heart. This year is again a ‘super’ Planche des Belles Filles finish, with the line atop the very peak of the mountain after an additional gravel track.

Two hilly transfer stages during the weekend take the Tour to Lausanne and Aigle in Switzerland before the second Monday rest day and a climb into the high Alps. Stage 10 is short at 148.1km but ends with a 19.2km climb to the summit finish on the Megève runway, where Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) won a stage at the 2020 Critérium du Dauphiné.

Stage 11 is much tougher and includes the spectacular Lacets de Montvernier before the mighty Col du Télégraphe and Col du Galibier. The stage ends for just the second time in Tour history with a mountain finish on the Col du Granon. It is a breathtaking 2413m high and saw the battle royal between Greg Lemond and Bernard Hinault in 1986.

Stage 12 is held on Bastille Day and will be a celebration of France as well as Grand Tour racing. The 165km stage returns to the Col du Galibier via the easier side and then climbs the Croix de Fer before celebrating the 70th anniversary of a finish on L’Alpe d’Huez and  Fausto Coppi’s victory in 1952. The legendary hairpins will surely be packed again with fans from around the world as the likes of Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Romain Bardet (Team DSM) fight for a French stage win.

The Tour route heads out of the Alps via Saint-Etienne and a finish on the Mende Plateau, where Steve Cummings famously won on Mandela Day for MTN-Qhubeka in 2015. Another long, hot transfer stage takes the peloton onto Carcassonne for the third rest day, with the Pyrenees in view as the riders try to rest up.  

Stage 16 to Foix in the foothills seems perfect for a breakaway before the back-to-back mountain-top finishes in Peyragudes and then Hautacam. Four passes are packed into the second half of the 129.7km stage 17, which finishes like in 2017 on the spectacular mountain runway finish at Peyragudes that featured in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies.

The final mountain stage of this year’s Tour comes on stage 18, and includes two Hors-Catégorie climbs – the Col d’Aubisque and the finish up to Hautacam - plus the mid-stage Col de Spandelles (10.3km at 8.3%). The 13.6km final climb up to Hautacam will be the last chance for the pure climbers to gain time before Saturday’s 40.7km time trial across the Lot department in Southwestern France.

Who knows who will have survived to this point and who remains in contention for overall victory and podium places. The time trial will decide the final placings, with the 1.5km climb up to the line on time trial bikes the final moment of drama in this year’s race.

As per tradition, the final stage around Paris on Sunday evening is a celebration of cycling, with only the sprinters and their lead-outs focused on the final sprint up the Champs Elysées. This year’s final stage 115km stage is preceded by the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes, marking a symbolic but historic handover as the women’s cycling makes a huge step forward.      

Riders to watch

Tour de France technical director Thierry Gouvenou carefully designs the race route but, as the saying goes, it is the riders who make the race.

We have entered the Pogačar era and the 23-year-old Slovenian could add a third title to his palmarès as he strives to join the greats of the sport with five victories.

Can anyone beat him on a course that seems perfect for him? It will be a tall order but there are plenty of real contenders even in the absence of Egan Bernal and a number of riders who have recently caught the COVID-19 virus.  

The Critérium du Dauphiné and the Tour de Suisse traditionally reveal who is and who is not on form for the Tour de France but modern training methods and altitude training camps are changing riders’ approach to July.

Pogačar opted to spend longer training in Livigno and then dominated the five-day Tour of Slovenia before a week of recovery in the Slovenian mountains. He seems to have worked hard and warned he has improved year on year.

"We’ll see if being as good as in 2021 is enough this year. I feel stronger, I’m leaner, have more power and feel psychologically more confident," he told La Gazzetta dello Sport .  

Pogačar will also have a team to back his ambitions in 2022 after a series of astute signings by UAE Team Emirates. Despite recent COVID-19 cases, the core of the team should include Brandon McNulty , Rafa Majka , Marc Soler and George Bennett , plus key riders for the flat stages.  

Jumbo-Visma arguably have a team to match UAE Team Emirates and have the luxury - or potential headache - of having Roglič and Vingegaard as joint team leaders. That could spark some internal rivalry but also means more options if one of them loses time in the first week.

Roglič seemed to roar back to his best to win the Dauphiné after a knee injury in the spring, while Vingegaard appeared the strongest, on form and equally as ambitious. Both are excellent time triallists and so will be a threat to Pogačar until the very end of the Tour. 

Jumbo-Visma will be chasing stage victories and the green points jersey with Wout van Aert and are convinced they have not bitten off more than they can chew. The Belgian will surely win a number of stages and could even wear the yellow jersey early on, adding to Jumbo-Visma’s success but perhaps also complicating a shot at overall victory. The balance of power at Jumbo-Visma will be one of the stories to watch in July.

Ineos Grenadiers lowered their expectations but not their ambitions after Bernal’s terrible training crash in Colombia earlier this year. They have Dani Martínez, Adam Yates, Tom Pidcock and Geraint Thomas but the Colombian struggled in Switzerland last week, while Yates and Pidcock were hit with COVID-19.  

Thomas seemed set for a domestique role after struggling with injury and COVID-19 during the winter but emerged as the strongest to win the Tour de Suisse. Could it be his year after all? If it isn’t, then a victory by Ganna in the opening time trial and a few days in the yellow will be some kind of consolation.

The spat of COVID-19 cases left a question mark over Aleksandr Vlasov , with Sergio Higuita ready to deputise at Bora-Hansgrohe after finishing runner-up at Suisse. Julian Alaphilippe (QuickStep-AlphaVinyl) is also struggling to be at his best after his nasty crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. 

Indeed, beyond the battle royal between Pogačar, Roglič and Vingegaard, and Ineos Grenadiers, there is a real opportunity for a podium finish. Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citröen) emerged to take a deserved fourth place in 2021 and impressed at the Dauphiné, while fellow Australian Jack Haig will lead Bahrain Victorious alongside Damiano Caruso in the absence of Mikel Landa. Enric Mas (Movistar) has been a quietly consistent presence in recent years and is a threat if he can avoid crashes.

A Frenchman has not won the Tour for 40 years and it seems unlikely this year, with Pinot and Bardet targeting stages. David Gaudu leads Groupama-FDJ’s overall hopes but will surely lose time in the time trials.

The sprinters and baroudeurs

Of course, the Tour de France will be more than just a GC battle for the yellow jersey. There are perhaps four or five sprint opportunities and perhaps as many stages suited to breakaways.

Baroudeur and breakaway riders to watch should include Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix), Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) after his exploits at the Tour de Suisse, Alexis Vuillermoz (TotalEnergies), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious), plus Bauke Mollema and Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo).  

Van Aert will have to beat pure sprinters such as Jakobsen, Ewan, Philipsen and a resurgent Bennett and Sagan, to win the green jersey because of the big points haul awarded to stage winners.

There will be no place for Mark Cavendish if Jakobsen stays healthy and the Dutch rider can count on Michael Mørkøv and other teammates for a quality and well-executed leadout. Everyone else will have to find more speed and better technique if they want to beat Jakobsen and so win the sprints at the Tour.

Of course, everyone will line up in Copenhagen on July 1, hoping to make it to Paris on July 24 and celebrate being part of the biggest race of the season.

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Tour de France 2022 Stage 4, as it happened - Indomitable Van Aert soloes to glory in Calais

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Updated 05/07/2022 at 16:16 GMT

• - VAN AERT SOLOES TO GLORY AFTER ENDING 'LOSING' RUN
• - VAN AERT SOLOES CLEAR AFTER JUMBO MASS-ATTACK ON FINAL CLIMB
• - PEREZ SOLOES CLEAR AFTER CORT CALLS IT A DAY
• - RECORD-BREAKER MAGNUS CORT MAKES IT EIGHT CLIMBS FROM EIGHT
• - JAKOBSEN CLOSES THE GREEN JERSEY GAP ON VAN AERT IN INTERMEDIATE SPRNT

‘Deadly demonstration’ – Van Aert conquers Stage 4 after Jumbo-Visma blow race apart

‘Caught everybody off guard’ – Jumbo-Visma decimate pack with surprise attack

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Tour de France 2022: Wout van Aert wins stage four to extend lead – as it happened

Van Aert left his rivals for dead on the final climb in a devastating show of power and cunning to extend his lead in the GC standings

• 5 Jul 2022 Jeremy Whittle's report from Calais
• 5 Jul 2022 Van Aert speaks!
• 5 Jul 2022 Van Aert wins stage four!
• 5 Jul 2022 Van Aert is all alone at the front!
• 5 Jul 2022 Jumbo Visma have broken away!
• 5 Jul 2022 Perez takes the intermediate sprint!
• 5 Jul 2022 Cort takes the first King of the Mountains point at Cassel!
• 5 Jul 2022 Départ fictif
• 5 Jul 2022 Preamble

That’s me done for today . Thanks for reading and for your emails and your tweets. You can join Luke McLaughlin tomorrow for our live coverage of what should be an electrifying fifth stage on the cobbles.

Here are the GC standings after four stages:

🎽 Jerseys after stage 4 / Maillots distinctifs après l'étape 4 💛 @WoutvanAert 💚 @WoutvanAert 🔴 @MagnusCort 👶 @TamauPogi #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/QSDSEPR7aD — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2022

Jeremy Whittle's report from Calais

Let’s not get too carried away . Pogacar is only 32 seconds back in the GC. But Van Aert’s form has been frightening in these early stages, with three second-placed finished and the stage win in Calais today. The Slovenian will surely row back some of that time in the later mountain stages. But tomorrow now becomes an absolutely HUGE stage, with pressure on all the GC riders on the cobbles. One mercy is that the weather looks fair, so no rain and minimal winds. Here is what awaits, courtesy of our stage-by-stage guide .

Stage 5, Wednesday 6 July: Lille-Arenberg Porte du Hainault, 157km

Assuming the Great Belt has been kind to the field, this is the first decisive day, with 11 stretches of treacherous cobbles in the final 80km. There will be a huge battle to be at the front for the first section at Villers-au-Tertre and that is bound to lead to crashes. In 2014, Vincenzo Nibali effectively won the Tour in a similar stage; this year, the big favourites will be Van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel.

To put Van Aert’s power on the final climb in context , he was over 12km/hr quicker on that ascent than Fabio Jakobsen, who won stage two.

💥 @JumboVismaRoad on the attack! A team attack like on @ParisNice , and they drop almost everyone! 💥 L'attaque collective de @JumboVismaRoad ! Comme sur @ParisNice , ils profitent de la dernière difficulté pour visser ! #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/QAuhF7wsHH — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2022

Insane numbers .

After a powerful attack on the final climb, @WoutvanAert averaged 62.0km/h in the final 10km to fly to his 7th @LeTour stage win 💨 #TDFdata #TDF2022 https://t.co/nzMn4RRmrN — letourdata (@letourdata) July 5, 2022

Van Aert speaks!

I didn’t want to take the risk. It was quite obvious that we were trying something with the team. I felt it was super hard on the climb and we heard on the radio that were was some damage. So I went for it. I decided to go alone and then it was 10km of all-out suffering.

Van Aert is embraced, mid-interview, by his Jumbo team-mates. It’s worth mentioning again the effort by Jumbo-Visma’s Nathan van Hooydonck and Tiesj Benoot to put Van Aert in position on that breakaway. Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates were desperately scrambling to stay on the wheel of the Jumbo lads, but were simply spat out of that back. They had no answer to the power of Van Aert and co.

That was a unique attack from someone in yellow . We might have seen an attack like that in the mountains, perhaps, but rarely like that on a little climb at the end.

Philipsen was leading the peloton, and were going so fast that they must have expected to catch Van Aert.

Pogacar and Yates were nowhere to be seen.

That’s a seventh stage win for Van Aert , who cements his position.

The peloton came home around 15 seconds behind the Belgian. This is how they finished!

1. Wout van Aert 2. Jasper Philipsen 3. Christophe Laporte 4. Alexander Kristoff 5. Peter Sagan

🏆🇧🇪 @WoutvanAert flies to victory! 💛 🏆🇧🇪 @WoutvanAert vole jusqu’à la victoire ! 💛 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/DvQogMEgve — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2022

Van Aert wins stage four!

What a sublime ride from the Belgian! A brilliantly timed breakaway from Jumbo Wisma, combined with the firepower and thrust in Van Aert’s legs in that final 10km, gave the yellow jersey holder the win! Huge, and Van Aert’s celebrates with a bird-like celebration as he crosses the line!

1km to go: Sixteen seconds now. Surely Van Aert has done enough! The sprinters are helpless!

2km to go: The gap is back to 20 seconds now! I think Van Aert is going to do it!

3km to go: Van Aert is giving it his all. This is phenomenal ride for a man in yellow who has finished second in all three of the stages so far in this year’s Tour. He appears determined to secure his first stage here.

5km to go: There is no sign of Van Aert cracking! The lead is now 27 seconds back to the peloton, and there’s a third group, 50 seconds back, including Groenewegen!

8km to go: Has Van Aert gone too early?! He takes the KoM point at Cap Blanc-Nez and has opened a 20 second lead over the peloton, with Roglic, Yates and Pogacar all in tow. Van Aert looks incredibly strong, that was an incredible burst, that caught everyone by surprise.

Van Aert is all alone at the front!

10km to go: Major problems for the sprinters, then! Van Aert is too strong and suddenly, the holder of the yellow jersey is all alone at the front of the race. Nathan van Hooydonck and Tiesj Benoot gave him an excellent boost in the breakaway there.

Jumbo Visma have broken away!

12km to go: Here we go. The peloton have upped it, and within about a minute, Perez’s lead has been halved. Ten seconds in it. Jumbo Visma have gone, and caught everyone off guard. There is a split!

14 km to go: What a ride this is from Perez. On his own, this is so gutsy, as he makes his way up one of these uncategorised climbs. He remains about 30 seconds ahead.

17km to go: This is what awaits.

Tension is rising in the bunch with a tricky finale to battle it out on the way to Calais 👀 #TDFdata #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/lwiMWW0BNd — letourdata (@letourdata) July 5, 2022

20km to go: Perez’s lead remains a touch over 30 seconds but will surely be caught. Some members of the peloton were caught doing 80km/hr on one particular descent. Crazy.

24km to go: What an email this is, from David Alderton, who has a fine cycling hat on his email avatar:

Seeing Jack Bauer at the front reminded me of one of the greatest ever stages I have seen. He was in a break from the moment the flag dropped on Stage 15 in 2014 and was looking to win the stage in Nimes after coving 22km, only to lose out with something like 20 metres to go. I’ve never shouted at a television quite as much, nor have I wanted to buy someone a big milkshake and say “it’s ok, mate, it’s Ok”. He’s a phenomenal rider, did near faultless ride, and then the cruel reality of bike racing crushed it all. It’s the best sport in the world.

This is the stage that David is talking about. It’s a cruel world.

This is what William Fotheringham wrote in 2014:

“In the shadow of the Roman Arena Jack Bauer and Martin Elmiger made a doomed attempt to win the stage in a finish redolent of a pair of gladiators being put to the sword after being given the thumbs up. After spending every pedal turn of the 222km stage – the third longest of the race – in front, all of seven pedal revolutions separated Bauer from the finish line when Kristoff swept past him with less than 25 metres to the line. “Bauer left Elmiger for dead with 100m to go and was clearly within reach of New Zealand’s first ever individual stage win in the Tour – Kiwis have twice been part of squads that have won team time-trial stages – when Kristoff and the others came haring past. Understandably he collapsed in tears afterwards.”

27km to go: Ineos and BikeExchange-Jayco are among the leaders of the peloton. Having a good position going into the final climb with around 10km to go, at Côte du Cap Blanc-Nez, is absolutely pivotal to make sure you aren’t dropped for the final stretch to Calais. Plenty of jostling, then, but I don’t think there will be any significant breakaways until we reach that final climb, which lasts only about 1km, but is very steep.

30km to go: From the helicopter’s camera, we can now see the coast.

🔥 Things are heating up at the front of the peloton, with the gap at just over 1' with 30km to go 🔥 La course s'anime en tête de peloton ! L'homme de tête n'a plus que 1' d'avance. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/Mp2p18aZDE — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2022

36km to go: Ben Francis sends a message in response to Paul Griffin’s email:

The first Tour I properly paid attention to was 1997 (I was six at the time), and my memory was of a lot of sprint stages early on. I can’t find the actual stage profiles, but looking at the stages and results , it began with a 7km prologue won by Chris Boardman at an average speed of 52 km/h. Then followed *eight* sprint stages, of which seven look to have ended in bunch sprints (three wins for Erik Zabel, two for Mario Cipollini). The exception was stage 5, where the breakaway stayed away but Cipollini led the peloton home at 3’24 . I feel like flat openings to the Tour were pretty common back in the 90’s, and the trend for having more variety in the opening week started rather more recently. The other amazing thing, looking back at 1997, was how long stages were in the EPO era. Five of those first eight that year were over 200 km, and two were over 260!

38km to go: Bradley Wiggins, out on the Eurosport motorbike, is reporting how there is a dangerous little cross-head wind on the plateau that Perez is currently on. That spells a tricky little bit ahead for those in the peloton. With about 23km to go, the riders will reach the coast and change direction east towards Calais. That will be another test.

41km to go: Cort makes it back to the peloton and the safety of his EF Education-Easy Post team-mates, who pass him a few gels and drinks. He inhales all that is given to him.

43km to go: Cort is done for the day and will drop back now towards the peloton, who are just over a minute away now. It looks as though Perez will give it a go, though, and he’s left as the sole member of the breakaway.

47km to go: Cort takes one more point, uncontested, at Côte du Ventus, to make it 11/11 for this year’s race. Remarkable. Save for the first climb today, Perez has allowed Cort to take the KoM points today, and Cort allowed Perez to take the 20 points at the intermediate sprint. The two are deep in conversation at the front, it’s unclear what they are chatting about.

48km to go: I’ve barely mentioned Pogacar all day. He’s lurking menacingly about 10 wheels from the front of the peloton.

50km to go: Fifty to go! A bit more undulation now, as the peloton lurches up and down the climbs and descents. As Cort and Perez approach Côte du Ventus (no, no that one), there remains just one more categorised climb: Côte du Cap Blanc-Nez, with a maximum gradient of 12%-13%.

54km to go: “What makes cobble stone sections so difficult to ride?” asks Jan Bruck, via email? “How do they effect the speed of the race? Are they stressful for bikes as well as riders? Are they a good spectacle to watch?”

Generally, it’s carnage, especially if the winds are up, and it’s wet. The cobbles are slippy, the grooves between them can trap a wheel, and the road itself is narrow. These bikes are built for speed and efficiency, so there is little to protect the hands and the body from shuddering up and down the track. This article, from 2014 on the one-day Paris-Roubaix, does a better job of explaining why cobbles are so perilous.

58km to go: Alpecin, Lotto-Soudal riders are leading the charge at the front of the peloton. This is a relatively flat part of the stage, as riders make their way north back towards the coast. It’s into a headwind, which is causing the peloton to bunch and swell.

64km to go: An email from Paul Griffin.

“As a race I’m finding it a little bit undercooked so far, like a hungover student’s full English. It got me wondering whether this is the flattest start to a Tour ever? There have been very few climbs, and none at the business end of stages. This perhaps accounts for the fact that, while it’s been a spectacular, er, spectacle, there’s no real narrative yet, apart from the understandable simmering antipathy between Groenewegen and Jakobsen. Plot twist please.”

I don’t have any precise stats to hand, but Denmark was very flat, and for all the enthusiasm of the fans, a little boring racing wise. The lack of wind didn’t help, either. A bit more NARRATIVE wouldn’t harm things, certainly. It’s at times like these that we really miss the presence of a home favourite to spice things up. A shame that Julian Alaphilippe, who strove to get fit after his horrendous accident at the Liège-Bastogne-Liège Classic in April, narrowly failed to get himself ready for the start this year.

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Wout van Aert wins stage 4 to extend overall lead at Tour de France 2022 - Results

Find out what happened in the 171.5km-stage between Dunkirk and Calais on the fourth day of racing at Le Tour.

Wout van Aert won the fourth stage of road cycling 's 2022 Tour de France on Tuesday (5 July).

Following three consecutive second places in the first three stages, the Belgian rider took his sixth stage victory at La Grande Boucle after launching a solo attack with 10km to go.

Van Aert crossed the finish line in Calais eight seconds ahead of Jasper Philipsen of Denmark, with France's Christophe Laporte rounding up the podium.

"I didn't want to take any risk anymore," said the Tokyo 2020 silver medallist, who was narrowly beaten in the last two sprints.

"It was quite obvious that we were trying something with the team and we were in a perfect position thanks to Nathan (van Hooydonck) and Stevie (Kruijswijk) on the (final) climb.

"On the radio we heard that there was some damage so I went full to the top and see what happened and then I came on top alone. I was a bit in doubt about waiting for Jonas (Vingegaard) and (Adam) Yates, the guys behind me, then I decided to go alone and it was 10km all out, suffering!"

Here is everything you need to know about this year's Tour de France.

The 27-year-old, who became the first Belgian to win a Tour stage in yellow since Freddy Maertens in 1976, has now extended his lead in the general standings from seven to 25 seconds on his compatriot Yves Lampaert , while two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar sits in third, 32 seconds back.

Stage 5 will lead the riders over 153.7km from Lille Metropole to Arenberg Porte du Hainaut: the race will pass through Roubaix and features 11 cobbled sections for a total of 20km.

2022 Tour de France: Stage 4 results - Tuesday 5 July

• Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) 4:01:36
• Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) +0:08
• Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) +0:08
• Alexander Kristoff (Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux) +0.08
• Peter Sagan (Total Energies) +0.08

2022 Tour de France: General classification standings after stage 4 on Tuesday 5 July

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) 13:02:43

Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) +0:25

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) +0:32

Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) +0:36

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +0:40

Full rankings are available on the official Tour de France website.

Schedule and stage winners: Day-by-day route of 2022 Tour de France

Fri 1 July: Stage 1 – Copenhagen-Copenhagen (time trial, 13.2 km) - Won by Yves Lampaert (Belgium), who also took the yellow jersey for overall lead of the race's general classification.

Sat 2 July: Stage 2 – Roskilde-Nyborg (202.5 km) - Won by Fabio Jakobsen (Netherlands) . Wout van Aert (Belgium) claims overall race lead.

Sun 3 July: Stage 3 – Vejle-Sonderborg (182 km) - Won by Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands). Wout van Aert (Belgium) retains overall race lead.

Mon 4 July: Transfer Day - from Denmark to France.

Tue 5 July: Stage 4 – Dunkerque-Calais (171.5 km) - Won by Wout van Aert (Belgium), who retains overall race lead.

Wed 6 July: Stage 5 – Lille Metropole-Arenburg Porte du Hainaut (157 km)

Thu 7 July: Stage 6 – Binche-Longwhy (220km)

Fri 8 July: Stage 7 – Tomblaine-La Super Planche de Belle Filles (176.5 km)

Sat 9 July: Stage 8 – Dole-Lausanne (186.5km)

Sunday 10 July: Stage 9 – Aigle-Chatel les Portes du Soleil (193km)

Monday 11 July: Rest Day

Tuesday 12 July: Stage 10 – Morzine Les Portes du Soleil-Megeve (148.5km)

Wednesday 13 July: Stage 11 – Albertville-Col du Granon Serre Chevalier (152km)

Thursday 14 July: Stage 12 – Briancon-Alpe d’Huez (165.5km)

Friday 15 July: Stage 13 – Le Bourg d’Oisans-Saint Etienne (193km)

Saturday 16 July: Stage 14 – Saint Etienne-Mende (192.5km)

Sunday 17 July: Stage 15 – Rodez-Carcassonne (202.5km)

Monday 18 July: Rest Day

Tuesday 19 July: Stage 16 – Carcassonne-Foix (178,5km)

Wednesday 20 July: Stage 17 – Saint-Gaudens-Peyragudes (130km)

Thursday 21 July: Stage 18 – Lourdes-Hautacam (143.5km)

Friday 22 July: Stage 19 – Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors (188.5km)

Saturday 23 July: Stage 20 – Lacapelle-Marival - Rocamadour (time trial, 40.7km)

Sunday 24 July: Stage 21 – Paris La Defence Arena – Paris Champs Elysees (116km)

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Tour de France 2022: Van Aert wins green jersey

Wout van Aert wins the points classification of the 2022 Tour de France miles ahead of Jasper Philipsen and Tadej Pogacar. ( Slideshow route/profile )

Points classification stage 21

1. Wout van Aert 480 2. Jasper Philipsen 286 3. Tadej Pogacar 250 4. Christophe Laporte 171 5. Fabio Jakobsen 159 6. Mads Pedersen 158 7. Jonas Vingegaard 157 8. Michael Matthews 133 9. Dylan Groenewegen 116 9. Peter Sagan 104

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Finish: 1. Jasper Philipsen 50 2. Dylan Groenewegen 30 3. Alexander Kristoff 20 4. Jasper Stuyven 18 5. Peter Sagan 16 6. Jérémy Lecroq 14 7. Danny van Poppel 12 8. Caleb Ewan 10 9. Hugo Hofstetter 10. Fred Wright 7 11. Luca Mozzato 6 12. Alberto Dainese 5 13. Fabio Jakobsen 4 14. Andrea Pasqualon 3 15. Nairo Quintana 2

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21. etape: De sidste kilometer til Paris

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• Jonas Vingegaard har vundet Tour de France.

Tak for en fantastisk Tour

Vi fik alt det, vi drømte om og meget mere. Det er svært at sætte ord på den rejse, de danske Tour-stjerner har taget os med på de sidste uger. Måske forstår vi det først rigtigt, når det hele er kommet lidt på afstand. Men ekstraordinært har det været. Det er helt sikkert.

Et oprigtigt tak til alle jer, der har fulgt med undervejs. Jeres input og spørgsmål har været fantastiske, og vi er klar til at gøre det hele igen næste år. 

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Storebælt lyst op i rød og hvid

Jonas Vingegaard er de seneste timer blevet hyldet vidt og bredt. Også Storebæltsbroen har valgt at fejre danskerens sejr ved at lyse broen op i de rød-hvide farver. 

På anden etape af årets Tour de France krydsede feltet broen mellem Sjælland og Fyn. Nu er Storebæltsbroen så også med til at hylde dette års danske vinder. 

Vingegaard skal have en hyggeaften

Hvis man antager, at Jonas Vingegaard skal fejre sin Tour-sejr hele natten, tager man fejl. Den nykårede Tour-vinder fortæller selv, at han i stedet skal slappe.

Du kan godt slå dig løs, når der er tid til det, hører jeg. Bliver det nu?

- Nej, det tror jeg ikke, man skal regne med. Jeg tror, jeg skal hjem og slappe af i stedet for. Jeg er træt.

Du har simpelthen ikke engang lyst til at feste?

- Det kan godt være, at der ryger et par øl indenbords, men det bliver ikke ”feste feste”. Det bliver mere en hyggeaften, siger Vingegaard.

Mette Frederiksen: - En enestående præstation

Danmarks statsminister har taget turen til Paris og stod ved podiet, da Jonas Vingegaard blev hyldet.

- Det er en fuldstændig fantastisk dag, og det er hele Danmark, der holder fest i Paris eller derhjemme klinet til skærmen. Jeg er sikker på, at der har rullet mange tårer ned ad kinderne. Det er dansk cykel- og sportshistorie, der bliver skrevet i dag.

- Det er en enestående præstation, og jeg kan høre og fornemme fra repræsentanter fra andre lande, at alle er enige om, at det her er den helt rigtige vinder af Touren. Det startede i Danmark og sluttede i med en dansker på podiet. Det er helt fantastisk, siger Mette Frederiksen til TV 2.

Pogacar forklarer angreb - ville bare i fjernsynet

Tadej Pogacar og Geraint Thomas angreb pludselig med seks kilometer til mål af dagens afsluttende etape, og nu forklarer den slovenske stjerne, hvorfor man pludselig så ham oppe foran. 

Vi så dig angribe, hvad var det for noget?

- Ja, det var rigtig sjovt. Jeg kørte til venstre, og Ineos med Thomas og Ganna kørte til højre. Vi ville bare gerne være på TV en lille smule, så vi gav den fuld gas op ad den lille bakke. Det var en fin afslutning, fortæller Pogacar med et smil til TV 2 efter etapen. 

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Tak for i år! Jeg lover at komme tilbage til næste år med en masse spændende spørgsmål!

Selv tak! Det har ikke været den værste Tour i år...

Vi vil glæde os til, at du kommer retur næste år, og du må stille alle de spørgsmål, du overhovedet kan komme på! :-)

Hør hele Vingegaards sejrstale fra podiet her

Vingegaards tale afbrudt to gange.

Jonas Vingegaard holder nu sin officielle vindertale, men den var næsten ikke begyndt, før den midlertidigt blev afbrudt.

De mange fremmødte danske fans råbte i kor: "Vingegaard!, Vingegaard!, Vingegaard!", og det var så højt, at danskeren for en stund måtte afbryde sin tale. 

Det virkede dog ikke til at påvirke ham negativt, da han smilede stort af de danske fans. 

Kort efter at Vingegaard genoptog talen, blev han igen afbrudt. Denne gang af datteren Frida, der pludselig havde stor interesse i sin fars mikrofon. Derfor måtte Vingegaard afgive lille Frida til kæresten Trine.

De tre bedste

For sidste gang er Vingegaard nu på podiet, hvor han bliver hyldet med Pogacar og Geraint Thomas, der bliver nummer to og tre. 

Nu er det tid til den danske nationalsang. Det er stort det her. 

Så sker det!

Nu skal der jubles, for vores kære Jonas Vingegaard er nu oppe på scenen, hvor han bliver hyldet som vinder af Tour de France 2022. Han har sin lille datter Frida med sig.

Det er smukke scener det her, og det er svært ikke at blive rørt. Tillykke Jonas Vingegaard - du har vundet hele Danmarks hjerte. 

Pidcock manglede vel på overblik over ungdomstrøje

Ja, det gjorde han. Det var en fejl i grafikken. Briten slutter 57 minutter efter Pogacar  i ungdomsklassementet, hvor han bliver nummer to.

Så er Vingegaard på scenen

Nu er Vingegaard på scenen for at blive hyldet for at have vundet bjergtrøjen, og han kan slet ikke stoppe med at smile! Hvor er det fede billeder! 

Pogacar på scenen

Så er Pogacar oppe på scenen, hvor han for tredje år i træk bliver hyldet for at have vundet ungdomstrøjen. 

Vingegaard taler efter Tour-sejren

Ineos vinder holdkonkurrencen.

Ineos har netop været på scenen, hvor de blev hyldet som vindere af holdkonkurrencen. Det er lidt en trøstepræmie for Ineos, der nok havde drømt om at skulle have en rytter øverst på podiet om lidt. 

Dog skal det siges, at Geraint Thomas skal en tur mere på podiet for at blive hyldet for sin tredjeplads.

Van Aert hyldes på podiet

Wout van Aert, der undervejs har vundet tre etaper og været i adskillige udbrud, er nu oppe på scenen i Paris, hvor han modtager prisen som løbets mest angrebsivrige rytter. 

Samme pris vandt vores kære Chris Anker Sørensen tilbage i 2012.

- Paris i dag er en by i Danmark, siger Vingegaards sportsdirektør

Jumbo-Vismas sportsdirektør Merijn Zeeman kan glæde sig over at have vundet Tour de France. Det gør han i den grad også, men samtidig er han forbløffet over den danske opbakning i Paris.

- Først og fremmest så jeg, at Paris i dag er en by i Danmark. Alle flagene og menneskerne. Det er virkelig dejligt for jer alle sammen – og tillykke igen. Vi er fuld af følelser, og vi kan ikke forstå, at vi gjorde det. Det er meget specielt, og i aften holder vi en stor fest med mange mennesker og nyder det rigtig meget.

Hvad er det første, du vil sige til Vingegaard?

- Jeg vil sige, at jeg er stolt af ham, og jeg har nydt det meget, siger Merijn Zeeman

Vingegaard taber 51 sekunder til Pogacar

Jonas Vingegaard trillede i mål med sine holdkammerater, og de krydsede faktisk stregen hele 51 sekunder efter feltet, hvor Pogacar sad. Dermed tabte Vingegaard faktisk en del tid til sloveneren, men det er han formentlig bedøvende ligeglad med nu, hvor han har sikret sig Tour-sejren. 

Danskeren slutter 2'43 foran Pogacar i klassementet.

Se afslutningen på etapen her