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Tour de France: Pogacar wins stage 6, takes yellow jersey

Van Aert loses overall lead after lengthy breakaway on roads to Longwy

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) took the yellow jersey after winning the uphill sprint in Longwy on stage 6 of the Tour de France , a day that will be long remembered for previous leader Wout van Aert’s sustained but doomed onslaught at the head of the race.

The Jumbo-Visma man ultimately conceded his yellow jersey to Pogačar, but only after repeatedly splitting the field in the opening kilometres and then sparking the three-man break of the day with a little under 150km to go.

Van Aert knew he was playing with fire, of course, and he must have sensed that self-immolation was the most likely outcome. Still he persisted, and he was the last survivor of the three-man break before his move was eventually snuffed out with 11km remaining, when he caught and dropped by the peloton.

As one offensive guttered, another ignited. Pogačar splintered the leading group with an acceleration of his own on the Côte de Pulventeux with 5.5km remaining, and over the other side, his UAE Team Emirates squad set about pegging back late attacker Alexis Vuillermoz (TotalEnergies) on the final approach to the line.

Rafal Majka and Brandon McNulty marshalled a reduced front group up the 2km haul to the finish, and although Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) defiantly opened the sprint from distance, Pogačar delivered an emphatic response, careering clear to win the stage comfortably from Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) and Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers).

The 10-second time bonus for stage victory sufficed to lift Pogačar ahead of Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) in the overall standings and into the yellow jersey. He leads the American by 4 seconds, with Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) now third at 31 seconds. Roglič looked to have weathered the dislocated shoulder he suffered on Wednesday, but he remains some 2:27 adrift of the seemingly untouchable Pogačar.

“Today was so hard from the start, the first two hours was so crazy, because the strongest guy went in the breakaway,” Pogačar said. “Lots of guys were pulling in the peloton, including all our team as well. I was thinking that he would come to the finish, but in the end, the peloton was stronger. When we came to the final climbs, I was still feeling good.”

Powless spent much of the day believing he might inherit yellow if and when Van Aert’s assault fizzled out, and he produced another strong showing to finish in the front group, which featured all of the podium contenders, but there was simply nothing to be done in the face of Pogačar’s final acceleration.

“As soon as we saw Wout in the break, we thought, ‘perfect, we can let him burn himself and try to go for yellow in the end',” Powless said. “But unfortunately, the bonus seconds at the finish took it away.”

Five years ago, the same uphill finish in Longwy produced a Peter Sagan stage victory. This time out, the front group was populated largely by GC riders, but even the fast finishers who survived the cut couldn’t match the ferocity of Pogačar’s sprint, which carried him well clear of Matthews.

“It wasn’t a pure sprint because we rode the last two climbs really hard,” Pogačar said. “It was above our threshold, it was super hard into the final climb, hectic and everything. I guess I had good legs to push at the end.”

How it unfolded

There were suggestions at the start that this might prove something of a transitional day as the peloton recovered from the rigours of the cobblestones the previous afternoon, though Matthews had a word of warning before the race left Binche. “The key point is actually the start, to see who is going in the break,” he said. “I think it’s going to be an unexpected race today.”

Unexpected was one way of putting it. Once the flag dropped, the principal aggressor was the maillot jaune himself. A searingly fast opening phase saw 52.5km covered in the first hour of racing, and that startling speed was due largely to Van Aert’s impetus, with the peloton repeatedly splitting and reforming in his wake.

Van Aert eventually forced his way clear with 148km remaining, bringing Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) and Jakob Fuglsang (Israel-Premier Tech) with him, and the peloton seemingly accepted there was little point in trying to reason with the maillot jaune when he was in this mood.

The offensive bore faint echoes of his rival Mathieu van der Poel’s defence of yellow on the road to Le Creusot at last year’s Tour, but on that occasion, the Dutchman infiltrated a 29-man move. In truth, this all-out assault was perhaps more reminiscent of Eddy Merckx’s aggression on the road to Marseille in 1971.

That afternoon, mind, Merckx’s boundless energy was diverted towards the clear goal of trying to regain the yellow jersey from Luis Ocaña. Van Aert, by contrast, was already in the overall lead and he is part of a team with two riders targeting final overall victory. His attack made no strategic sense, but his decision to race against all logic as well as against the entire peloton made for gripping viewing.

“He’s playing with our balls, isn’t he? I don’t know what to say, really,” said Tom Pidcock (Ineos), who would eventually take fourth on the stage. “He’s taking the piss, isn’t he?”

Not even a slipped chain on the Côte des Mazures and a later bike change could discourage Van Aert, who built a maximum lead of just under four minutes. He later picked up full points at the intermediate sprint, but it was clear that his eyes were on a grand exploit rather than managing his substantial lead in the green jersey standings.

Bora-Hansgrohe, Alpecin-Deceuninck and EF Education-EasyPost combined to lead the chase behind, and out front, Fulgsang sat up with 65km to go, but Van Aert and Simmons maintained a buffer of two minutes as they entered the final 50km. The pace in the bunch picked up thereafter, with German champion Nils Politt particularly effective, but Van Aert refused to be discouraged, and he eased clear of Simmons with 30km remaining.

The terrain grew more rugged from here, yet Van Aert still maintained a 30-second advantage deep into the finale, even as Ineos Grenadiers massed in pursuit. He was eventually recaptured just after the category 4 Côte de Montigny-sur-Chiers with 11km remaining, and the day’s spoils would fall to Pogačar, who inherits yellow in time for the first summit finish at La Planche des Belles Filles.

The two-time winner is already in a commanding position atop the overall standings. Friday’s finale, where he won his first Tour in 2020, offers an obvious chance to land a most telling blow.

“Tomorrow is one of the climbs where you need to go full gas from bottom to top, and there's not much calculation, but you can explode pretty fast because there are super, super steep sections,” he said. “It's good that I know the climb up to the last 1km, and then I hope that I have as good legs as I have had until now.”

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That's me done for the day... more of the same tomorrow, and another sprint finish, when stage four takes us 181.8km from Dax to Nogaro.

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Jasper Philipsen, after his win on stage three of the 2023 Tour de France was confirmed: “It was a bit of a doubt, but they make it really exciting in the end.

“It was tense but it’s the Tour de France and there are no presents. We can be really happy with the team performance. It was a great leadout with Jonas (Rickaert) and then Mathieu (van der Poel) did a fantastic job and I’m really happy to keep it to the finish line.

“I tried to take the shortest route to the finish and I’m really happy to be first over the line.”

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Jasper Philipsen must be a fan of VAR right now. I think the key to that result standing is that he did not deviate from his racing line. Wout van Aert ran out of road because of the barriers in that closing section of the race, not Philipsen.

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"So we took it easy and even in the sprint at the end we tried to stay back, stay out of the crashes and all the carnage and I think we did a good job.

"The first sprint day is always tense but actually it's quite nice, the roads the last few days have been really nice - wide roads, not a crazy amount of furniture, and it definitely helps to limit the crashes and the carnage."

Yates keeps yellow

The top of the General Classification isn't affected by that result by the way... Britain's Adam Yates stays in the leader's yellow jersey for another day.

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Mark Cavendish won't have to wait long to have another go at a record-breaking 35th Tour stage win by the way - his next chance will be tomorrow.

The top six on stage three

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2. Phil Bauhaus

3. Caleb Ewan

4. Fabio Jakobsen

5. Wout van Aert

6. Mark Cavendish

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Phil Bauhaus was second over the line, just ahead of Caleb Ewan. Wout van Aert ran out of room in the final few minutes.

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Tadej Pogacar cracks and loses over a minute to Jonas Vingegaard as Jai Hindley takes yellow

Jai Hindley won stage five of the Tour de France in Laruns to take the yellow jersey from Adam Yates and Jonas Vingegaard rode clear of rival Tadej Pogacar as an early trip to the Pyrenees ripped up the general classification.

Hindley, winner of last year’s Giro d’Italia, marked himself out as a major contender with a breakaway victory but surely more important was the sight of defending champion Vingegaard leaving behind two-time winner Pogacar on the final climb to make his case as the favourite to be in yellow come Paris.

Having gone clear from the last of his fellow escapees on the final climb of the Col de Marie Blanque, Hindley soloed into Laruns to take the win by 32 seconds, with Vingegaard coming home at the back of a four-strong group that was second on the road.

With bonus seconds applied, Hindley now leads overall by 47 seconds from Vingegaard with Giulio Ciccone in third, 63 seconds back.

The Australian may be making his Tour de France debut, but given Hindley has twice stood on the podium of the Giro it was a huge surprise to see how easily he got into the break.

“I’m a bit lost for words to be honest,” the Bora-Hansgrohe rider said. “I can’t believe it. I was pretty surprised to find myself in that group. I just sort of slipped into it. I was sort of having fun, then looked back and there was no group behind so I thought, ‘I guess we’re in for a bike race’.

“The gap grew out initially and I was just trying to maybe get a bit of a buffer on the GC guys and then I started to think about the stage win.”

Pogacar, utterly unable to respond when Vingegaard launched his own move on the Marie Blanque, lost more than a minute to Vingegaard and slipped to sixth, one minute and 40 seconds off yellow. Adam Yates is now fifth and his twin brother Simon seventh.

The first real mountain battle of the Tour turned into a fascinating tactical battle as Hindley slipped into a strong breakaway that got clear during a frantic start to the 163km stage out of Pau.

Pogacar’s UAE Team Emirates were unable to shut it down and got no help from any of their rivals, watching the advantage balloon to four minutes as they climbed the hors categorie Col de Soudet midway through the stage.

Hindley would have been hoping to gain a bigger lead given the time gaps that had been seen, but when Vingegaard made a late dig of his own he quickly distanced Pogacar and kept himself within reach of the yellow jersey. PA

Tour de France, stage five: As it happened...

Live reporting, general classification after stage five.

1. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) 22hrs:15mins 12secs

2. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +47secs

3. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) +1mins 03secs

4. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) +1mins 11secs

5. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) +1mins 34secs

6. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) +1mins 40secs

7. Simon Yates (Jayco-Alula) +1mins 40secs

8. Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) +1mins 56secs

9. Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers) Same time

10. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ)

The thoughts of Jonas Vingegaard

"During the day we were wondering whether we should pace" Daniel asked Jonas Vingegaard whether he's worried about Jai Hindley 🇩🇰🐝 #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/jDkXuvkZdm — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

Today's winner and leader Jai Hindley

"This is for everyone that's supported me my entire career" 🥰 Jai Hindley was almost speechless after winning his first Tour de France stage in his debut Tour and taking the yellow jersey 🟡🇦🇺 #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/lpuiKYFXek — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

Stage five results

1. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) 3hrs:57mins 07secs

2. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) +32secs

3. Felix Gall (AG2R-Citroen) Same time

4. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe)

5. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +34secs

6. Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) +1mins 38secs

7. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers) Same time

8. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates)

9. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ)

10. Carlos Rodríguez (Ineos Grenadiers)

Yates' time in yellow over

Adam Yates held the maillot jaune for the first four days but Jai Hindley takes over that jersey.

What a moment for Jai Hindley!

☝️ First Tour de France stage victory 💛 First Tour de France yellow jersey A 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐚𝐲 in the career of Jai Hindley ⭐️ @BORAhansgrohe | @JaiHindley | #TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/SOk6zLkD73 — Eurosport (@eurosport) July 5, 2023

Pogacar loses time

Pogacar comes in around a minute down on Vingegaard and a minute and a half behind Hindley.

Vingegaard fifth on the day

Jonas Vingegaard comes in fifth on the stage and around 30 seconds behind Hindley. He is going to put some big time between himself and his biggest rival Tadej Pogacar.

Hindley wins!

A great day and ride from Jai Hindley, who wins stage five in Laruns! He moves into yellow!

Hindley is into the final kilometre and what a stage win this will be for the Australian, who won the Giro d’Italia in 2022.

Pogacar seems to be falling further behind. He has dropped back into a bigger group which could help him more than riding into the finish on his own.

Hindley is inside the final 4km here and looks certain to win stage five. How many seconds can he finish ahead of Vingegaard?

Vingegaard’s group has caught Gall. It is Ciccone and Buchmann in this group as well. They are 50 seconds behind the leader Hindley.

Provisional king of the mountains standings after Marie-Blanque: 

1. Felix Gall (AG2R-Citröen), 28 

2. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), 19 

3. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), 18 

4. Neilson Powless (EF-Education EasyPost), 18 

5. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), 15

The Vingegaard group have nearly caught up to Gall, who is now 44 seconds behind Hindley. Pogacar is continuing to lose time on Vingegaard. He is now a minute behind the Dane.

Result at Marie Blanque:

1. Jai Hindley, 10 points + 8’’ 

2. Felix Gall, 8 + 5’’ 

3. Giulio Ciccone, 6 + 2’’ 

4. Emanuel Buchmann, 4 

5. Jonas Vingegaard, 2 

6. Jack Haig, 1 

At 1’40’’: 

Tadej Pogacar 

Adam Yates, David Gaudu

Felix Gall is second on the road at the moment, around 30 seconds behind Hindley.

Vingegaard is now within a minute of the leader Hindley. Pogacar is around 45 seconds behind Vingegaard.

As it stands, Pogacar has no response. This is phenomenal from Vingegaard. Could the Dane catch Hindley?

Hindley is just going over the top of the Col de Marie Blanque. A great ride from the Australian but the attention turns to the defending champion Vingegaard, who is racing up the climb.

Wow! Vingegaard just motors away from Pogacar and the Slovenian has no response. This could be a huge moment on this year’s Tour and we are only on stage five!

Vingegaard attacks Pogacar!

💥 Jonas Vingegaard attacks 🔙 Tadej Pogacar goes backwards IT'S ALL HAPPENING! 😲 #TDFF2023 pic.twitter.com/mw6WFy6Y1Z — Eurosport (@eurosport) July 5, 2023

Hindley is just 1km from the summit and he seems to be going from strength to strength. He is just under two minutes ahead of Vingegaard and Pogacar.

Current leader Adam Yates has been dropped by a very small peloton, which is now down to just three riders; Sepp Kuss and Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo-Visma and Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates. Pogacar is isolated here, what can Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma do here?

The peloton is now down to a select group. van Aert could not last long with his team-mates. At the front Hindley has attacked and Gall cannot react. What a day this is turning out to be for Hindley.

van Aert is now back into the peloton and Jumbo-Visma will be hoping he can do some work to help Jonas Vingegaard.

Hindley, last year’s Giro d’Italia winner, is the virtual maillot jaune and the gap back to the peloton is just over two and a half minutes.

The breakaway has exploded on Col de Marie Blanque 🏔️💥 🇦🇺Jai Hindley and 🇦🇹Felix Gall are in front and the Aussie is in virtual yellow 💛 https://t.co/sJSAnImGrK #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/dlTVngAdsS — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

Two riders have broken away. AG2R’s Felix Gall, who earlier topped the Col de Soudet first, and Bora-Hansgrohe’s Jai Hindley are pressing on. This could be a great day for the Australian Hindley.

The group at the very front is a very select group now. It has been whittle down quickly early on this climb. Only seven riders left in this group.

van Aert has been dropped by the lead group. Today will not be a stage victory for the great Belgian.

The Hindley group has caught up the leading trio early on in this climb. The peloton is under three minutes behind the lead group now.

The leading trio are at the foot of the Col de Marie Blanque, a category one climb over 7.7km.

Here we go, the Col de Marie Blanque 🏔️ Wout van Aert is in the virtual yellow jersey and the UAE driven peloton is 3'11" behind 💛🇧🇪 https://t.co/sJSAnImGrK #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/bxLkMQs3tY — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

Neilands, van Aert and Alaphilippe have a 20-second advantage over the Hindley group and just over three minutes over the peloton. The leading trio are about to hit the final climb up the Col de Marie Blanque.

King of the mountains result at Col d’Ichère: 

1. Krists Neilands, 2 points, 

2. Wout van Aert, 1pt

We now have three riders at the front of the race; Neilands, van Aert and Alaphilippe. The peloton is three and a half minutes behind the leaders.

Neilands has just gone over the top of the Col d’Ichère and right behind him now is van Aert and Alaphilippe. The Hindley group is just over 20 seconds behind.

Just 16 seconds behind Neiland now is Wout van Aert and Julian Alaphilippe. The group involving Jai Hindley is a further 25 seconds back.

One man who is set to gain hugely in the general classification today is Bora-Hansgrohe’s Jai Hindley. Let’s hear the thoughts of Philippe Gilbert on Eurosport:

"He's the one who's made the best move of the day" 💨 @PhilippeGilbert on Jai Hindley's encouraging progress on Stage 5 📈 #TDF2023 | @TeamEmiratesUAE | @JaiHindley pic.twitter.com/4ZNUHJv6OE — Eurosport (@eurosport) July 5, 2023

Neilands has reached the foot of the Col d’Ichère, which is a 4.2km climb. His advantage over the chasing group is around 20 seconds.

Current standings of the king of the mountains competition: 

1. Felix Gall (AG2R-Citröen), 20 

2. Neilson Powless (EF-Education EasyPost), 18 

3. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), 15 

4. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), 13 

5. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), 10 

6. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), 8 

7. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), 7 

8. Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), 6 

9. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), 4 

10. Jack Haig (Bahrain-Victorious), 4

Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech) has attacked from the lead group and has a 20 second advantage. The peloton are currently four minutes behind.

Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) is one of three more riders to join this lead group.

There are currently 14 riders in this lead group motoring down the descent: Omar Fraile, Daniel Martinez (Ineos Grenadiers), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Rigoberto Uran (EF-Education EasyPost), Jack Haig (Bahrain-Victorious), Jai Hindley, Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), Felix Gall (AG2R-Citröen), Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), Wout van Aert, Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma) and Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar)

van Aert is now back onto the front group. The pace on this descent is rapid so any poor or nervy descenders will be exposed here. Jai Hindley, who is just 22 seconds off current leader Adam Yates, is setting the pace at the front.

Result at the top of the Col du Soudet (king of the mountains classification): 

1. Felix Gall, 20 points 

2. Dani Martinez, 15 

3. Giulio Ciccone, 12 

4. Emanuel Buchmann, 10 

5. Jai Hindley, 8 

On this foggy descent the group at the front has come back together. Wout van Aert is still not back with this group but he is closing in. These are treacherous conditions on the descent, especially in light of recent events in the world of cycling after the death of Gino Mader on a descent at the Tour de Suisse.

Gall goes over the top of the Col de Soudet and he is likely to go into the king of the mountains jersey with maximum points on that climb. Neilson Powless’ run in that jersey is set to end at the end of today. He scores 20 points in the KOM classification, Dani Martinez takes 15 points and Giulio Ciccone takes 12.

The breakaway summits the Col du Soudet 🏔️🌫️ 🇦🇹Felix Gall takes the maximum 20pts and moves into the virtual lead of the King of the Mountains classification ⚪️🔴 #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/KpTRDf3G5O — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

Gall’s explosive attack has given him a decent lead at the moment. As predicted and reported earlier, there is a significant amount of fog at the top of the climb.

Felix Gall of AG2R has attacked and only a few riders including general classification contenders Ciccone and Jai Hindley can hold on. Gall attacks again with under 2km to go to the summit. At this moment no-one else reacts.

The big breakaway group is splitting up with Giulio Ciccone of Lidl-Trek leading this group. Ciccone is within a minute of current general classification leader Adam Yates.

van Aert and Campenaerts have been caught by the substantial breakaway group with around two and a half kilometres on this climb to go.

Pedersen has now been dropped out of the back of the second breakaway group. They are 19 second behind van Aert and Campenaerts. The peloton are over three minutes down on the leading duo.

One man who might look to go for a stage win today is Britain’s Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers). Let’s hear his thoughts ahead of today’s stage:

"I feel like [UAE] will ride for the stage" Tom Pidcock spoke to Daniel about potentially being able to win stage 5 and how an easy day yesterday will affect the racing 🇬🇧 #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/3QLMqP4Mxr — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

With 80km to go, the front two of van Aert and Camepnaerts are over halfway up the Col de Soudet. They are just over 20 seconds ahead of the chasing group and around three minutes clear of the peloton.

Tadej Pogacar won a very similar stage to today’s back in 2020. Let’s hear from the 2020 and 2021 Tour de France winner:

"That was something totally crazy" Tadej Pogačar spoke at the start about his first Tour stage win in Laruns in 2020, the finish today 🇸🇮 #TDF2023 #ITVCycling pic.twitter.com/MMT8eMg5FE — ITV Cycling (@itvcycling) July 5, 2023

More and more sprinters are dropping out of the back of the peloton on this tough climb. The likes of Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan), Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal-Quick Step) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny) have all been dropped.

The big breakaway group has already swallowed up Pedersen and is catching up to van Aert and Campenaerts. They are 15 seconds behind the duo. The peloton is nearly three minutes behind the front of the race.

Meanwhile back in the peloton Pogacar has had a change of bikes.

🚲 Bike change for @TamauPogi on the Col de Soudet 🚲 Crevaison pour @TamauPogi qui change de vélo dans l'ascension ! #TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/YRAEDPkPVL — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 5, 2023

Pedersen has been dropped right at the front by van Aert and Campenaerts with just over 10km to go on this climb up the Col de Soudet.

The peloton are now onto the climb as well. Meanwhile the second breakaway group is just 30 seconds behind the front trio.

Van Aert, Pedersen and Campenaerts have just started climbing the Col de Soudet. The climb is just over 15km in length and has an average gradient of around 7%.

The front trio of van Aert, Campenaerts and Pedersen currently have an advantage of around one minute 50 seconds over the second breakaway group. The peloton are a further minute and 20 seconds behind that.

At the top of the Col de Soudet currently it is extremely foggy. According to Eurosport, the last 4km of the climb are foggy and there is visibility of about 50 metres.

102km to go

The front three of van Aert, Pedersen and Campenaerts have an advantage of nearly a minute over the next breakaway group. The peloton are nearly three minutes now behind this trio.

108km to go

Result of the intermediate sprint at Lanne-en-Barétous: 1. Bryan Coquard, 20 pts  

2. Mads Pedersen, 17 pts  

3. Wout van Aert, 15 pts  

4. Victor Campenaerts, 13 pts  

At 20’’ 5. Remi Cavagna, 11 pts  

6. Rigoberto Uran, 10 pts

111km to go

There is group of three at the front at the moment: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Mads Pederson (Lidl-Tek) and Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny). They have around 30 seconds back to the next breakaway group. The peloton are currently over two minutes behind the front of the race.

114km to go

The smaller group in the breakaway are approaching the intermediate sprint. Van Aert does not go for it but there are two other sprinters who do in the form of Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) and Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek). Pedersen looks like he might get it but it is Coquard who gets the maximum 20 points on the line. 

115km to go

The big breakaway group has been split into two as a smaller group of four has gone away. This small group includes Wout van Aert, who might be eyeing up points in the points classification in the upcoming intermediate sprint.

122km to go

There are 32 riders in this breakaway, including Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), Rigoberto Uran (EF Education EasyPost), Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) and Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step). Some huge names and big general classification contenders in this group.

125km to go

There is a crash in the peloton. American Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) has gone down and has landed pretty heavily, especially on his shoulder. There is also blood running down his left leg and left elbow. That looked very painful. He is back up and running but what state is he in?

126km to go

We have just heard over the Ineos Grenadiers’ team radio that their riders have been told to wake up because there are general classification contenders in that breakaway.

129km to go

The peloton will be concerned here as Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) is in the breakaway and he is only 22 seconds off the current leader Adam Yates. Hindley has also a few team-mates in this breakaway so this is a dangerous move. Will Yates’ team UAE Team Emirates react quickly? They certainly need to.

131km to go

There is a big group that has broken away from the main peloton. A group that includes Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step). Will this group manage to break away? There are a lot of quality riders in this current breakaway.

137km to go

Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) has been dropped off the back of the peloton but he is surrounded by a number of team-mates.

139km to go

Tadej Pogacar casued a few moments of concern for the other general classification contenders as he broke away from the main peloton in a fairly sizeable group but the peloton is back together again. There are a lot of attacks early doors.

141km to go

No sooner had that select group caught Latour has the peloton now caught that group as well. It is difficult for a breakaway to get away at the moment.

142km to go

Pierre Latour has been caught by a small group that has broken away from the front of the peloton. That group includes Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal Quick-Step).

147km to go

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) has attacked off the front of the peloton alongside Alberto Bettiol (EF-Education EasyPost). Pieree Latour is still out in the lead at the front. Concerns already for Soudal-Quick Step’s sprinter Fabio Jakobsen, who has been dropped. Remember he was one of many riders who crashed in the final stages of yesterday’s stage. His team-mate and main lead-out man Michael Morkov is there to help him through on what is going to be a long day for the Dutchman.

152km to go

The nerves will have calmed down in the Lidl-Trek team as Skjelmose is back in the peloton and looks unhurt.

153km to go

There is a crash in the peloton. Danish rider Mattias Skjelmose of Lidl-Trek, who is a top 10 contender in the general classification, has gone down. Skjelmose won the Tour de Suisse recently.

155km to go

Neilson Powless (EF-Education EasyPost) again attacks off the front but is followed by a number of riders. Latour is still out in front but he has just a handful of secons over the peloton.

158km to go

TotalEnergies’ Pierre Latour has attacked but as of yet no-one has joined him. He is on his own at the moment and it is not a big gap yet.

160km to go

From the outset the man who currently leads the king of the mountains classification, Neilson Powless, is right at the front. Speaking ahead of the stage, he was speaking about the number of points available today in that classification.

The flag has dropped and stage five is underway. As expected moves straight away off the front of the peloton.

Big stage in the Pyrenees

The 2023 Tour de France is going to explode today with a huge amount of climbing on stage five in the Pyrenees. Let’s see what the Eurosport team are thinking ahead of an exciting day:

In today's instalment of The Breakaway team bus, @AdamBlythe89 talks tactics with @INEOSGrenadiers on what could be a BIG day for @tompidcock 🗣 #TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/ZVcgDshQuN — Eurosport (@eurosport) July 5, 2023

State of play

Here is a reminder of the state of play going into stage five:

Non-starters

There are two riders in the peloton who have abandoned the race following crashes yesterday: Luis León Sánchez (Astana Qazaqstan) and Jacopo Guarnieri (Lotto-Dstny). They both broke a collarbone in the closing stages yesterday. Guarnieri also has broken ribs.

Into the Pyrenees we go

It was a slow burner on stage four yesterday. Most of the stage was fairly quiet until we reached the final few kilometres when it exploded into life as they entered onto the Paul Armagnac motor racing circuit in Nogaro, where chaos ensued. Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Jasper Philipsen won for a second day in succession and four sprints in a row dating back into last year’s Tour. Philipsen finished ahead of Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny) and Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain-Victorious). Chasing a record-breaking 35th stage win, Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) finished fifth. 

A number of riders went down in the closing stages yeesterday including Soudal-Quick Step’s Dutch sprinter Fabio Jakobsen as well as one of Cavendish’s key team-mates Luis León Sánchez, who is out of the Tour with a suspected broken collarbone. The sprinters will likely have to wait for their next opportunity of a stage win until Friday when stage seven finishes in Bordeaux.

Yesterday was all about the sprinters. Today’s stage is all about climbing as we head into the Pyrenees. This stage is very similar to stage nine in 2020, when a certain Tadej Pogacar won his first stage at the Tour. Stage five begins in Pau and ends in Laruns after 163km of riding, including a 15.2km climb to the top of the Col de Soudet. There is plenty of climbing for the riders today. UAE Team Emirates’ Adam Yates retains the leader’s yellow jersey. He is six seconds ahead of his twin brother Simon and two-time winner Tadej Pogacar.

A great day in store!

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Tour de France 2023: Daily stage results and general classification standings

The latest updates on the winners of each stage and the top contenders for the coveted yellow jersey in the 110th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 1 to 23 July.

Jonas Vingegaard claimed back-to-back Tour de France titles beating main rival Tadej Pogacar into second place in a repeat of the 2022 result.

Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) produced the best result of his career, winning the final stage on his Le Tour debut. He triumphed in a photo finish beating Jasper Philipsen and Dylan Groenewegen into second and third place, respectively.

The 2023 Tour de France , the second and most prestigious Grand Tour of the year in the men’s road cycling season , started in Bilbao on 1 July.

Check out the daily results and the general classification standings after each stage right here.

• Tour de France 2023 preview: Full schedule and how to watch live

Sunday July 23: Stage 21 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Paris Champs-Élysées, 115.1 km

The final stage of the 2023 Tour de France came to a climactic end with Belgium’s Jordi Meeus claiming a surprise victory in a sprint for the line on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Meeus won by the narrowest of margins in a photo finish edging Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin Deceuninck) and Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco Alula) into second and third place, respectively.

Meeus celebrated an emphatic end to his debut while Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard claimed a second consecutive Tour de France title. Vingegaard finished seven minutes, and 29 seconds ahead of Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar with Adam Yates of Great Britain taking third overall.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 21 Results - Sunday 23 July

Saint-quentin-en-yvelines - paris champs-élysées, 115.1 km.

• Jordi Meeus (BEL, BORA-hansgrohe) 2h 56’13’’
• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) +0"
• Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Team Jayco-AIUla) +0"
• Mads Pedersen (DEN, LidI-Trek) +0"
• Cees Bol (NED, Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0"
• Biniam Girmay (ER, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) +0"
• Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) +0"
• Søren Wærenskjold (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
• Corbin Strong (NZ, Israel-Premier Tech) +0"
• Luca Mozzato (ITA, Arkéa-Samsic) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 21

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 82h 05'42"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +7:29"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +10:56"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +12:23"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +13:17"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +13:27"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +14:44"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +16:09"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +23:08"
• Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +26:30"

Saturday 22 July: Stage 20 - Belfort - Le Markstein Fellering, medium mountains, 133.5 km

Despite failing to regain the yellow jersey he won in 2020 and 2021, Tadej Pogacar  ended his Tour de France on a high note.

In his last Tour de France mountain stage before retirement, home favourite Thibaut Pinot went on a solo attack to the delight of the French fans.

But the climbing specialist was unable to stay in front with first Tom Pidcock and Warren Barguil catching him before Pogacar made his bid to bridge the gap.

Overall race leader Jonas Vingegaard covered the move with Felix Gall , and the three forged clear on the closing Col du Platzerwase climb.

As things became tactical at the front, the Yates brothers - Adam and Simon - made it a lead group of five.

Vingegaard made his bid for the stage win with 250m to go, but Pogacar was too strong this time with the Dane losing second to Gall on the line.

Pinot received a hero's welcome as he crossed the line in seventh place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 20 Results - Saturday 22 July

Belfort - le markstein fellering, medium mountains, 133.5 km.

• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) 3h 27'18"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +0"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +0"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +0"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +7"
• Warren Barguil (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +33"
• Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +33"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +33"
• Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +50"
• Rafał Majka (POL, UAE Team Emirates) +50"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 20

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 79h 16'38"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +12:57"

Friday 21 July: Stage 19 - Moirans-en-Montagne - Poligny, hilly, 172.8 km

Matej Mohoric denied Kasper Asgreen a second consecutive win at the 2023 Tour de France after a thrilling photo-finish sprint in Poligny.

The two riders emerged from a three-man breakaway and outsprinted Australia's Ben O'Connor, with Mohoric narrowly beating Asgreen to the finish line.

Throughout the 172.8km stage, there were numerous fragmented attacks across the field, leading to an intense pursuit among different breakaway groups in the final 20km.

Overall leader Jonas Vingegaard finished with the main peloton and kept his seven-and-a-half-minute lead on Tadej Pogacar in the general classification (GC) with just two stages remaining

2023 Tour de France: Stage 19 Results - Friday 21 July

Moirans-en-montagne - poligny, hilly, 172.8km.

• Matej Mohoric (SLO, Bahrain-Victorious) 3h 31'02"
• Kasper Asgreen (DEN, Soudal - Quick Step) +0"
• Ben O'Connor (AUS, AG2R Citroen Team) +4"
• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) +39"
• Mads Pedersen (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +39"
• Christophe Laporte (FRA, Jumbo-Visma) +39"
• Luka Mezgec (SLO, Team Jayco AlUla) +39"
• Alberto Bettiol (ITA, EF Education-EasyPost) +39"
• Matteo Trentin (ITA, UAE Team Emirates) +39"
• Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +39"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 19

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 75h 49'24"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +7:35"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +10:45"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +12:01"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +12:19"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +12:50"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +13:50"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +16:11"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +16:49"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +17:57"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 19 - Moirans-En-Montagne to Poligny - France - July 21, 2023 Team Bahrain Victorious' Matej Mohoric crosses the finish line to win stage 19

Thursday 20 July: Stage 18 - Moûtiers - Bourg-en-Bresse, flat, 184.9 km

Kasper Asgreen surprised the sprinters and claimed stage 18 of the Tour de France after a long day in the breakaway.

Following several mountain stages in the Alps, a flatter stage awaited the peloton on Thursday. A breakaway of four rider with Kasper Asgreen , Jonas Abrahamsen , Victor Campenaerts, and later Pascal Eenkhoorn managed to just stay clear of the sprinters that were breathing down their necks on the finish line.

Asgreen of Denmark proved to be the fastest of the riders in the breakaway, and he secured his team Soudal Quick Step their first stage win of this year’s Tour de France.

Jonas VIngegaard held on to the leader's yellow jersey and maintains his 7:35 advantage to Tadej Pogacar .

2023 Tour de France: Stage 18 Results - Thursday 20 July

Moûtiers to bourg-en-bresse, flat, 184.9 km.

• Kasper Asgreen (DEN, Soudal - Quick Step) 4h 06'48"
• Pascal Eenkhoorn (NED, Lotto Dstny) +0"
• Jonas Abrahamsen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
• Mads Pedersen (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +0"
• Jordi Meeus (BEL, BORA - hansgrohe) +0"
• Matteo Trentin (ITA, UAE Team Emirates) +0"
• Christophe Laporte (FRA, Jumbo-Visma) +0"
• Luca Mozzato (ITA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 18

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 67h 57'51"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 18 - Moutiers to Bourg-En-Bresse - France - July 20, 2023 Soudal–Quick-Step's Kasper Asgreen celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 18 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Wednesday 19 July: Stage 17 - Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc - Courchevel, high mountains, 165.7 km

Felix Gall claimed a dramatic queen stage of the Tour de France 2023, where Jonas Vingegaard cracked Tadej Pogacar to gain more than five and a half minutes on the Slovenian. The Dane is now seven minutes and 35 seconds clear in the overall lead, and looks very likely to win his second consecutive Tour de France.

The stage winner Gall attacked his breakaway companions with six kilometres remaining of the final climb Col de la Loze. Simon Yates tried to chase down Gall, but the AG2R Citroën Team rider managed to maintain a small gap to the Brit, and he crossed the finish line solo.

The general classification leader Vingegaard dropped Pogacar 7.5 kilometres from the summit of Col de la Loze, and while the Slovenian tried to limit his losses, last year’s winner did what he could to gain as much time as possible. His lead seems unassailable with four stages remaining.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 17 Results - Wednesday 19 July

Saint-gervais mont-blanc to courchevel, high mountains, 165.7 km.

• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) 4h 49'08"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +34"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +1:38"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +1:52"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +2:09"
• Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +2:39"
• Chris Harper (AUS, Team Jayco AlUla) +2:50"
• Rafał Majka (POL, UAE Team Emirates) +3:43"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:43"
• Wilco Kelderman (NED, Jumbo-Visma) +3:49"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 17

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 17 - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to Courchevel - France - July 19, 2023 AG2R Citroen Team's Felix Gall celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 17 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Tuesday 18 July: Stage 16 - Passy - Combloux, individual time trial, 22.4 km

Jonas Vingegaard took a big step toward reclaiming his Tour de France title, as the Danish rider triumphed on this year’s lone time trial.

The yellow jersey wearer gained an astonishing one minute and 38 seconds to his biggest rival Tadej Pogacar , who finished second on the stage.

Before Wednesday’s queen stage, the Dane now has an advantage of 1:48 to his Slovenian rival.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 16 Results - Tuesday 18 July

Passy to combloux, individual time trial, 22.4 km.

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 32:26
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +1:38"
• Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +2:51"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +2:55"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +2:58"
• Rémi Cavagna (FRA, Soudal - Quick Step )+3:06"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:12"
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +3:21"
• Mads Pedersen (DEN Lidl - Trek) +3:31"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +3:31

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 16

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 63h 06'53"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +1:48"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +8:52"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +8:57"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +11:15"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +12:56"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +13:06"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +13:46"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +17:38"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +18:19"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 16 - Passy to Combloux - France - July 18, 2023 Team Jumbo–Visma's Jonas Vingegaard wearing the yellow jersey crosses the finish line after stage 16 REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Sunday 16 July: Stage 15 - Les Gets les Portes du Soleil - Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, mountain stage, 179 km

Wout Poels took the first Tour de France stage win of his career, as he crossed the finish line alone at Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc on stage 15.

The 2016 Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner dropped his breakaway companions Wout van Aert and Marc Soler 11 kilometres from the finish and managed to maintain his advantage.

Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar fought another alpine duel, but neither rider could get the better of the other, and they crossed the finish line together.

The yellow leader’s jersey therefore remains with Vingegaard. His advantage to Tadej Pogacar is 10 seconds.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 15 Results - Sunday 16 July

Les gets les portes du soleil to saint-gervais mont-blanc, mountain stage, 179 km.

• Wout Poels (NED, Bahrain - Victorious) 4:40:45
• Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +2:08"
• Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA, TotalEnergies) +3:00"
• Lawson Craddock (USA, Team Jayco AlUla) +3:10"
• Mikel Landa (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +3:14"
• Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +3:14"
• Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +3:32"
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +3:43"
• Simon Guglielmi (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +3:59"
• Warren Barguil (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +4:20

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 15

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 62h 34'17"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +10"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +5:21"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +5:40"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +6:38"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +9:16"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +10:11"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +10:48"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +14:07"
• Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +14:18"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 15 - Les Gets Les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc - France - July 16, 2023 Team Bahrain Victorious' Wout Poels celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 15 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Saturday 15 July: Stage 14 - Annemasse - Morzine Les Portes du Soleil, mountain stage, 151.8 km

Carlos Rodriguez claimed the biggest victory of his career, marking the second consecutive win for his team INEOS Grenadiers, on stage 14 of the 2023 Tour de France after crossing the finish line alone in Morzine.

The 22-year-old Spaniard took advantage of the mind games between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, who were the strongest riders during the ascent on the Col de Joux de Plan.

The Slovenian secured second place, beating his Danish rival, but now trails Vingegaard, who picked up an extra bonus second, by 10 seconds.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 14 Results - Saturday 15 July

Annemasse - morzine les portes du soleil, mountain stage, 151.8 km.

• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) 3:58:45
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +5"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +5"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +10"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +57"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +1:46"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +1:46"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +3'19"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +3'21"
• Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +5'57"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 12

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 46h 34'27"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +4:43"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +4:44"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +5:20"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +8:15"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +8:32"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +8:51"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +12:26"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +12:56"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 14 - Annemasse to Morzine Les Portes Du Soleil - France - July 15, 2023 Ineos Grenadiers' Carlos Rodriguez celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 14

Friday 14 July: Stage 13 - Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne - Grand Colombier, mountain stage, 137.8 km

Michael Kwiatkowski of INEOS Grenadiers secured a remarkable solo victory on stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France, conquering the iconic Grand Colombier.

The Polish rider made a decisive move with 11km to go annd successfully maintained his lead over the pursuing riders, securing his third career stage win at La Grande Boucle.

Tadej Pogacar launched a late but blistering attack to finish third and narrow the gap to overall leader Jonas Vingegaard , with the Danish rider now leading by just nine seconds.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 13 Results - Friday 14 July

Châtillon-sur-chalaronne - grand colombier, mountain stage, 137.8 km.

• Michal Kwiatkowski (POL, INEOS Grenadiers) 3:17:33
• Maxim Van Gils (BEL, Lotto Dstny) +47"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +50"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +54"
• Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) 1'03"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) 1'05"
• James Shaw (GBR, EF Education-EasyPost) 1'05"
• Harold Tejada (COL, Astana Qazaqstan Team) 1:05"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) 1'14"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 1'18"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +9"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:51"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +4:22"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +5:03"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +5:04"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +5:25"
• Tom Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +5:35"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +6:52"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +7:11"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 13 - Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier - France - July 14, 2023 Ineos Grenadiers' Michal Kwiatkowski celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 13

Thursday 13 July: Stage 12 - Roanne - Belleville-en-Beaujolais, medium mountains, 168.8km

Ion Izagirre of Cofidis claimed a stunning solo victory on stage 12 of the Tour de France 2023. The 34-year-old Spaniard made a daring move from the breakaway 30 kilometres before the finish line and successfully fended off the chasing pack to claim his second stage win in the prestigious French grand tour. The Basque won his first stage in 2016.

Mathieu Burgaudeau took the second spot on the stage, while Matteo Jorgenson was third.

Jonas Vingegaard maintained his hold on the yellow leader's jersey, with the Danish rider maintaining a 17-second lead over  Tadej Pogacar in second place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 12 Results - Thursday 13 July

Roanne to belleville-en-beaujolais, medium mountains, 168.8km.

• Ion Izagirre (ESP, Cofidis) 3:51:42
• Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA, TotalEnergies) +58"
• Matteo Jorgenson (USA, Movistar Team) +58"
• Tiesj Benoot (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +1:06"
• Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team +1:11"
• Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +1:13"
• Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +1:13"
• Dylan Teuns (BEL, Israel - Premier Tech) +1:27"
• Ruben Guerreiro (POR, Movistar Team) +1:27"
• Victor Campenaerts (BEL, Lotto Dstny) +3:02"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +17"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:40"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious +4:36"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +4:41"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +4:46"
• Tom Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +5:28"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +6:01"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +6:47"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 12 - Roanne to Belleville-En-Beaujolais - France - July 13, 2023 Cofidis' Ion Izagirre Insausti celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 12 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Wednesday 12 July: Stage 11 - Clermont-Ferrand - Moulins, flat, 179.8km

Jasper Philipsen secured his fourth stage win of this year’s Tour de France, as the Belgian once again proved to be the fastest rider of the peloton in a bunch sprint.

The green jersey wearer Philpsen won ahead of Dylan Groenewegen and Phil Bauhaus .

Jonas Vingegaard is still in the yellow leader’s jersey, after a stage that saw no changes in the top ten of the general classification.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 11 Results - Wednesday 12 July

Clermont-ferrand to moulins, flat, 179.8km.

• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4:01:07
• Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Team Jayco AlUla) +0"
• Phil Bauhaus (GER, Bahrain - Victorious) +0"
• Bryan Coquard (FRA, Cofidis) +0"
• Alexander Kristoff (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
• Peter Sagan (SLK, TotalEnergies) +0"
• Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +0"
• Sam Welsford (AUS, Team dsm - firmenich) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 11

• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +4:24"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 11 - Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins - France - July 12, 2023 Alpecin–Deceuninck's Jasper Philipsen celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 11 REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Tuesday 11 July: Stage 10 - Vulcania - Issoire, medium mountains, 167.2km

Pello Bilbao of Bahrain-Victorious claimed the first Spanish Tour de France stage win in five years as he outsprinted his breakaway companions in a thriliing finale on stage 10.

Prior to the sprint finish, Krists Neilands of Israel-Premier Tech was caught just three kilometres from the finish line after the Latvian tried to go solo 30 kilometres earlier.

Several riders from the breakaway attacked in the final, where Bilbao broke free with Georg Zimmermann of Intermarché-Circus-Wanty. Ben O'Connor of AG2R Citroën Team managed to bridge accross right before Bilbao launched his sprint.

Neither Zimmerman nor O’Connor could respond, and the 33-year-old Spaniard could take his first-ever Tour de France stage win. A victory he dedicated to his former teammate Gino Mäder, who tragically lost his life last month after a crash at the Tour de Suisse.

In the general classification, Jonas Vingegaard crossed the finish line alongside the other favourites, and he retains his 17-second advantage over Tadej Pogacar in second place. Bilbao advanced from 11 th to fifth position in the overall standings.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 10 Results - Tuesday 11 July

Vulcania to issoire, medium mountains, 167.2km.

• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious 3:52:34
• Georg Zimmermann (GER, Intermarché - Circus - Wanty) +0"
• Ben O'Connor (AUS, AG2R Citroën Team) +0"
• Krists Neilands (LAT, Israel - Premier Tech) +0"
• Esteban Chaves (COL, EF Education-EasyPost) +0"
• Antonio Pedrero (ESP, Movistar Team) +3"
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +27"
• Michał Kwiatkowski (POL, INEOS Grenadiers) +27"
• Warren Barguil (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +30"
• Julian Alaphilippe (FRA, Soudal - Quick Step) +32"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 10

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 42h 33'13"
• Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious +4:34"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +4:39"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +4:44"
• Tom Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +5:26"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +6:45"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 10 - Vulcania to Issoire - France - July 11, 2023 Team Bahrain Victorious' Pello Bilbao Lopez celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 10 REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Sunday 9 July: Stage 9 - Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Puy de Dôme, 182.4km

The iconic finish at Puy de Dôme , a 13.3 km stretch at 7.7% average gradient, returned to the race for the first time since 1988.

The stage was forecast to be a battle between overall leader Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar but it turned into a heartbreaking loss for Matteo Jorgenson. The U.S. rider who was stung by a wasp and needed to be attended to by the race doctor with 72km to go, produced a brave 50km solo effort and was caught 450m from the finish by Canada's Michael Woods.

Meanwhile, Pogacar gained eight seconds on Vingegaard. 

2023 Tour de France: Stage 9 Results - Sunday 9 July

Saint-léonard-de-noblat to puy de dôme, 182.4km.

Michael Woods (CAN, Israel Premier Tech) 4:19:41

Pierre Latour (FRA, TotalEnergies) +28

Matej Mohoric (SLO, Bahrain - Victorious) +35

Matteo Jorgensen (USA, Movistar) +35

Clement Berthet (FRA, AG2R Citroën) + 55

Neilson Powless (USA, EF Education-EasyPost) +1:23

Alexej Lutsenko (UKR, Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 1:39

Jonas Gregaard (DEN, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +1:58

Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA, TotalEnergies) + 2:16

David de la Cruz (SPA, Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 2:34

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 9

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 38h 37'46"
• Romain Bardet (FRA, Team DSM - Firmenich) +6:58"

Saturday 8 July: Stage 8 - Libourne - Limoges, hilly, 200.7km

Mads Pederson held off triple stage winner Jasper Philipsen and Wout van Aert to clinch stage eight of the Tour de France in 4:12:26.

Van Aert had looked to be in a position to take the stage but was forced to apply the brakes after getting blocked by his own Jumbo-Visma teammate Christophe Laporte . The Belgian was able to recover to catch third.

Earlier in the race, joint record holder for stage wins Mark Cavendish was forced to abandon his 14th and expected last Tour after he was caught in a crash with 63km to go.

The Manx Missile appeared to have injured his shoulder after a touch of wheels in the peloton forced him off his bike and onto the tarmac.

It's been a heartbreaking 24 hours for Cavendish who was denied a record win yesterday (Friday) after suffering a mechanical issue in his sprint showdown with Philipsen.

In the GC, Jonas Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey, while Great Britain's Simon Yates slid two places into sixth following his crash with just 5km of the race left to go.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 8 Results - Saturday 8 July

Libourne to limoges, hilly, 200.7km.

• Mads Pederson (DEN, Lidl - Trek) 4:12:26
• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin - Deceuninck) +0"
• Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Jayco AlUla) +0"
• Nils Eekhoff (NED, Team DSM - Firmenich) +0"
• Jasper De Buyst (BEL, Lotto Dstny) +0"
• Rasmus Tiller (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
• Corbin Strong (NZL, Israel - Premier Tech) +0"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 8

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 34h 10'03"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +25"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +1:34"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +3:30"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:40"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +4:01"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +4:03"
• Romain Bardet (FRA, Team DSM - Firmenich) +4:43"
• Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +4:43"
• Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +5:28"

Friday 7 July: Stage 7 - Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux, flat, 169.9km

Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck got his hat-trick, as he claimed his third sprint victory on stage 7 of the 2023 Tour de France.

The points classification leader won ahead of Mark Cavendish of Astana Qazaqstan Team and Biniam Girmay of Intermarché - Circus - Wanty.

A breakaway tried to challenge the peloton for the stage win, but it was inevitable that the sprinters were going to battle it out in the end.

The GC favourites, including Jonas Vingegaard , crossed the finish line in the peloton, and the Jumbo-Visma rider retained the yellow leader’s jersey.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 7 Results - Friday 7 July

Mont-de-marsan to bordeaux, flat, 169.9km.

• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 3hr 46'28"
• Mark Cavendish (GBR, Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0"
• Biniam Girmay (ERI, Intermarché - Circus - Wanty) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 7

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 29h 57'12"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +3:14"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 7 - Mont-De-Marsan to Bordeaux - France - July 7, 2023 Alpecin–Deceuninck's Jasper Philipsen celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 7 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Thursday 6 July: Stage 6 - Tarbes to Cauterets-Cambasque, high mountains, 144.9km

Tadej Pogacar of UAE Emirates won the mountainous stage 6 in the Pyrenees ahead of reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard , who took over the leader’s jersey.

The first part of the stage was dominated by Jumbo-Visma and Vingegaard, who put pressure on the penultimate climb Col du Tourmalet. First, overnight leader Jai Hindley  was dropped by the pace of Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma).

Shortly after, Vingegaard attacked on climb, and only Pogacar could follow. The Dane’s teammate Wout van Aert got into the early breakaway and was waiting on the descent to pilot his captain into the final kilometres of the last climb - Cauterets-Cambasque.

Defending champion Vingegaard attacked again on the final climb with 4.5 kilomtres to the finish, but Pogacar stayed in his wheel. Two kilometres later, the Slovenian opened up a gap to the Dane. The two-time Tour de France winner managed to stay and claim his tenth Tour de France stage win.

In the GC, Vingegaard now leads by 25 seconds to Tadej Pogacar in second place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 6 Results - Thursday 6 July

Tarbes to cauterets-cambasque, high mountains, 144.9km.

• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) 3hr 54'27"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +24"
• Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +1:22"
• Ruben Guerreiro (POR, Movistar Team) +2:06"
• James Shaw (GBR, EF Education-EasyPost) +2:15"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:39"
• Carlos Rodríguez (SPA, INEOS Grenadiers) +2:39"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +2:39"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:11"
• Romain Bardet (FRA, Team dsm - firmenich) +3:12"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 6

• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma)
• Romain Bardet (FRA, Team dsm - firmenich) +4:43"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 6 - Tarbes to Cauterets-Cambasque - France - July 6, 2023 UAE Team Emirates' Tadej Pogacar celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 6 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Wednesday 5 July: Stage 5 - Pau to Laruns, high mountains, 162.7km

General Classification podium contender Jai Hindley of BORA-Hansgrohe claimed the first mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France. He also took over the leader’s yellow jersey from Adam Yates . Australian rider Hindley had sneaked into a big breakaway, where he attacked on the last categorised climb, Col de Marie Blanc. Hindley managed to maintain a gap to the GC favourites to take his first ever Tour de France stage.

Behind the stage winner, reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard had dropped two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar and others on the last steep climb, and the Dane started the final descent with a 40-second advantage to the Slovenian.

Vingegaard crossed the finish line in fifth place, 34 seconds behind Hindley but gained more than a minute on his biggest rival for the overall win, Pogacar. Last year’s winner moves up to second place in the GC, 47 seconds behind Hindley, who was awarded 18 bonus second on the stage. Pogacar is in sixth place, 1:40 behind the leader’s jersey.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 5 Results - Wednesday 5 July

Pau to laruns, high mountains, 162.7km.

• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) 3hr 57'07"
• Giulio Ciccone (ITA, Lidl - Trek) +32"
• Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +32"
• Emanuel Buchmann (GER, BORA - hansgrohe) +32"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +34"
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +1:38"
• Daniel Felipe Martínez (COL, INEOS Grenadiers) +1:38"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +1:38"
• Carlos Rodríguez (ESP, INEOS Grenadiers) +1:38"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 5

• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) 22hr 15'12"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +47"
• Giulio Ciccone (ITA, Lidl - Trek) +1:03"
• Emanuel Buchmann (GER, BORA - hansgrohe) +1:11"
• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +1:34"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +1:40"
• Simon Yates (Team Jayco AlUla) +1:40"
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +1:56"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +1:56"
• David Gaudu (Groupama - FDJ) +1:56"

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 5 - Pau to Laruns - France - July 5, 2023 Bora–Hansgrohe's Jai Hindley celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 5 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Tuesday 4 July: Stage 4 - Dax to Nogaro, flat, 181.8km

Jasper Philpsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck sprinted to his second consecutive stage win on stage four of this year's Tour de France. In a close sprint finish, the Belgian threw his bike at the finish line to win right ahead of the Australian Caleb Ewan (Lotto Dstny).

A few crashes on the final kilomtres did not change anything among the GC favourites. Adam Yates crossed the finish line within the peloton, and the UAE Emirates rider retained the yellow leader's jersey.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 4 Results - Tuesday 4 July

Dax to nogaro, flat, 181.8km.

• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4hr 25'28"
• Caleb Ewan (AUS, Lotto Dstny) +0"
• Danny van Poppel (NED, BORA - hansgrohe) +0"
• Luka Mezgec (SLO, Team Jayco AlUla) +0

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 4

• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 9hr 09'18"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +6"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco Alula) +6"
• Victor Lafay (FRA, Cofidis) +12"
• Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +16"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +17"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +22"
• Michael Woods (CAN, Israel-Premier Tech) +22"
• Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +22"
• Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +22"

• Jul 3, 2023 Foto del lunes del pedalista del Alpecin–Deceuninck Jasper Philipsen celebrando tras ganar la tercera etapa del Tour de Francia REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Monday 3 July: Stage 3 - Amorebieta-Etxano to Bayonne, flat, 193.5km

Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck claimed the first sprint stage finish of the 2023 Tour de France, as the peloton left Spain to finish in Bayonne, France. It was the third Tour de France stage win for the Belgian sprinter.

The leader's yellow jersey stayed with Adam Yates, who came through the stage unscathed. He has a six-second lead to UAE Emirates teammate Tadej Pogacar.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 3 Results - Monday 3 July

Amorebieta-etxano to bayonne, flat, 193.5km.

• Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4hr 43'15"
• Fabio Jakobsen (NED, Soudal - Quick Step) +0"
• Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Team Jayco AlUla) +0

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 3

• Mikel Landa (ESP, Bahrain Victorious) +22"

Sunday 2 July: Stage 2 - Vitoria-Gasteiz to Saint-Sébastien, hilly, 208.9km

Frenchman Victor Lafay (Cofidis) timed his attack to perfection pulling away from the peloton with a kilometre left to sprint to a maiden Tour de France stage win in Saint-Sébastien.

Lafay’s brave sprint to the finish gave Cofidis their first win since 2008 with Wout van Aert finishing a few bike lengths behind him in second place.

Tadej Pogacar , bidding for a third yellow jersey after losing his title to Jonas Vingegaard last year, again crossed the line in third place for second in the general classification.

First-stage winner, Adam Yates , held onto the yellow jersey finishing the stage in 21st place, one spot behind brother Simon .

2023 Tour de France: Stage 2 Results - Sunday 2 July

Vitoria-gasteiz to saint-sébastien, medium mountains, 208.9km.

• Victor Lafay (FRA, Cofidis) 4hr 46'39"
• Thomas Pidcock (GBR, Ineos Grenadiers) +0"
• Pello Bilbao Lopez (ESP, Bahrain Victorious) +0"
• Michael Woods (CAN, Israel - Premier Tech) +0"
• Romain Bardet (FRA, Team DSM - Firmenich) +0"
• Dylan Teuns (BEL, Israel - Premier Tech) +0
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora - Hansgrohe) +0"
• Steff Cras (BEL, Totalenergies) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 2

Saturday 1 july: stage 1 - bilbao to bilbao, medium mountains, 182km.

Britain's  Yates twins  pulled away from the lead group inside the last 10km of the Grand Départ with  Adam  easing clear of  Simon  inside the final kilometre to take his first Tour de France stage win in Bilbao.

Tadej Pogacar , bidding for a third yellow jersey after losing his title to  Jonas Vingegaard  last year, won the sprint for third and punched the air as he celebrated gaining a four-second time bonus on his rivals as well as a stage win for his UAE Team Emirates colleague in northern Spain.

Thibaut Pinot  was fourth with reigning champion Vingegaard safely in the lead group in ninth place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 1 Results - Saturday 1 July

Bilbao to bilbao, medium mountains, 182km.

• Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 4hr 22'49"
• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco Alula) +4"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +12"
• Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama-FDJ) +12"
• Michael Woods (CAN, Israel-Premier Tech) +12"
• Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +12"
• Skjelmose Mattias Jensen (DEN, Lidl-Trek) +12"
• Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +12"
• David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama-FDJ) +12"

Tour de France 2023: General Classification standings after Stage 1

• Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco Alula) +8"
• Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +18"
• Thibault Pinot (FRA, Groupama-FDJ) +22"

Day-by-day route of the 2023 Tour de France

• Saturday 1 July: Stage 1 - Bilbao-Bilbao (182km)
• Sunday 2 July: Stage 2 - Vitoria-Gasteiz - Saint-Sebastian (208.9km)
• Monday 3 July: Stage 3 - Amorebieta - Etxano-Bayonne (187.4 km)
• Tuesday 4 July: Stage 4 - Dax - Nogaro (181.8 km)
• Wednesday 5 July: Stage 5 - Pau - Laruns (162.7 km)
• Thursday 6 July: Stage 6 - Tarbes - Cauterets-Cambasque (144.9 km)
• Friday 7 July: Stage 7 - Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux (169.9 km)
• Saturday 8 July: Stage 8 - Libourne - Limoges (200.7 km)
• Sunday 9 July: Stage 9 - Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Puy de Dôme (182.4 km)
• Monday 10 July: Rest Day
• Tuesday 11 July: Stage 10 - Vulcania - Issoire (167.2 km)
• Wednesday 12 July: Stage 11 - Clermont-Ferrand - Moulins (179.8 km)
• Thursday 13 July: Stage 12 - Roanne - Belleville-en-Beaujolais (168.8 km)
• Friday 14 July: Stage 13 - Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne - Grand Colombier (137.8 km)
• Saturday 15 July: Stage 14 - Annemasse - Morzine Les Portes du Soleil (151.8 km)
• Sunday 16 July Stage 15 - Les Gets les portes du soleil - Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc (179 km)
• Monday 17 July: Rest Day
• Tuesday 18 July: Stage 16 - Passy - Combloux (22.4 km individual time trial)
• Wednesday 19 July: Stage 17 - Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc - Courchevel (165.7 km)
• Thursday 20 July: Stage 18 - Moûtiers - Bourg-en-Bresse (184.9 km)
• Friday July 21: Stage 19 - Moirans-en-Montagne - Poligny (172.8 km)
• Saturday July 22: Stage 20 - Belfort - Le Markstein Fellering (133.5 km)
• Sunday July 23: Stage 21 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Paris Champs-Élysées (115.1 km)

How to watch the Tour de France 2023

The Tour de France will be shown live in 190 countries. Here is a list of the official broadcast partners across different territories.

• Basque Country - EiTB
• Belgium - RTBF and VRT
• Czech Republic - Česká Televize
• Denmark - TV2
• Europe - Eurosport
• France - France TV Sport and Eurosport France
• Germany - Discovery+ and ARD
• Ireland - TG4
• Italy - Discovery+ and RAI Sport
• Luxemburg - RTL
• Netherlands - Discovery+ and NOS
• Norway - TV2
• Portugal - RTP
• Scandinavia - Discovery+
• Slovakia - RTVS
• Slovenia - RTV SLO
• Spain - RTVE
• Switzerland - SRG-SSR
• United Kingdom - Discovery+ and ITV
• Wales - S4C
• Canada - FloBikes
• Colombia - CaracolTV
• Latin America & Caribbean: ESPN
• South America - TV5 Monde
• United States - NBC Sports and TV5 Monde

Asia Pacific

• Australia - SBS
• China - CCTV and Zhibo TV
• Japan - J Sports
• New Zealand - Sky Sport
• South-East Asia - Global Cycling Network and Eurosport

Middle East and Africa

• The Middle East and North Africa - BeIN Sports and TV5 Monde
• Subsaharan Africa - Supersport and TV5 Monde

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2022 Tour de France final standings for the yellow jersey, green jersey, white jersey and polka-dot jersey through stage 21 of 21 …

Overall (Yellow Jersey) 1. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) -- 79:32:29 2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) -- +2:43 3. Geraint Thomas (GBR) -- +7:22 4. David Gaudu (FRA) -- +13:39 5. Aleksandr Vlasov -- +15:46 6. Nairo Quintana (COL) -- +16:33 7. Romain Bardet (FRA) -- +18:11 8. Louis Meintjes (RSA) -- +18:44 9. Alexey Lutsenko (KAZ) -- +22:56 10. Adam Yates (GBR) -- +24:52 13. Neilson Powless (USA) -- +46:57 18. Sepp Kuss (USA) -- +1:02:29 DNF. Chris Froome (GBR) DNF. Primoz Roglic (SLO)

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Sprinters (Green Jersey)1. Wout van Aert (BEL) -- 480 2. Jasper Philipsen (BEL) -- 286 3. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) -- 250 4. Christophe Laporte (FRA) -- 171 5. Fabio Jakobsen (NED) -- 159

Climbers (Polka-Dot Jersey)1. Jonas Vingegaard (DEN) -- 72 points 2. Simon Geschke (GER) -- 65 3. Giulio Ciccone (ITA) -- 61 4. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) -- 61 5. Wout van Aert (BEL) -- 59

Young Rider (White Jersey)1. Tadej Pogacar (SLO) -- 79:36:03 2. Thomas Pidcock (GBR) -- +57:34 3. Brandon McNulty (USA) -- +1:27:43 4. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) -- +1:31:14 5. Andreas Leknessund (NOR) -- +1:54:48

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Tour de France jerseys: Yellow, green, white and polka dot explained

We explain what the yellow, green, polka dot and white jerseys worn by riders in the Tour de France represent

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The Tour de France sees the very best cyclists in the world battle it out for the yellow, green, white and polka dot jerseys, based on the general, points, mountains and young rider classifications. 

The jersey for each category is awarded to the leader of that classification at the end of every stage, and the recipient earns the right to wear it during the following day's racing. When a rider has the lead in multiple classifications, the yellow jersey is prioritised, then green, the polka dot, and white - the next person on the ranking wears the kit in the leader's stead.

Here we take a brief look at what they are and how they are won. 

Tour de France yellow jersey - GC leader

Also called the maillot jaune , the Tour de France yellow jersey is the most coveted piece of kit in professional cycling. The wearer is the rider who has completed the race in the least amount of time, and as such tops the overall or general classification (GC) of the race.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) dominated the GC in 2020 and 2021, wearing the yellow jersey almost throughout the 2021 edition, before Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) took it off him halfway through the 2022 race, wearing it until the end of the race.

Before that, in 2012, Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider to finish in Paris in the Yellow Jersey - with Chris Froome following up in 2013, 2015-2017. Geraint Thomas took the 2018 race, becoming the third British rider to win the race.

The yellow jersey is sponsored by LCL, a French bank, and it is yellow, because the Tour's original organiser, L'Auto , was a newspaper printed on yellow paper. 

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A time bonus of 10, six and four seconds will be awarded to the first three riders across the finish line each day (not including TTs). These bonus seconds are taken off their stage and therefore overall time. Bonus seconds of eight, five and two seconds are also awarded on certain, strategically placed climbs on stages one, two, five, 12, 14 and 17.

Last 10 winners of the Tour de France general classification:

• 2013: Chris Froome 
• 2014: Vincenzo Nibali 
• 2015: Chris Froome
• 2016: Chris Froome
• 2017: Chris Froome
• 2018: Geraint Thomas
• 2019: Egan Bernal
• 2020: Tadej Pogačar
• 2021: Tadej Pogačar
• 2022: Jonas Vinegaard

Tour de France green jersey - points classification

The green jersey relates to points awarded to riders according to the position they finish on each stage, with additional points for intermediate sprints during some stages also on offer.

The number of points on offer will vary depending upon the type of stage. More are on offer during pure flat, sprint days, while on hilly and mountain stages there are fewer points available. The points are then tallied up after each stage and added to points won in all previous stages. The green jersey ( maillot vert) is awarded to the rider with the most points. Sometimes it is a sprinter's game, sometimes more of an all-rounder - like Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma).

The jersey took its colour because the initial sponsor was a lawn mower manufacturer - though the colour was changed once in 1968 to accommodate a sponsor. It is now sponsored by Škoda, and has a new shade for this year .

Both Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault successfully won both the general classification and the points classification with Merckx achieving the biggest sweep in 1969 with the points, mountain and general classifications to his name. Over the last ten years, Peter Sagan has triumphed in the points classification on no less than seven occasions. 

The following points are on offer:

Flat stage (stages 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 18, 19, 21): 50, 30, 20 points (descending to 15th place) 

Hilly stage (stages 1, 9, 10, 12, 13): 30, 25, 22 points (descending to 15th place)

Mountain stage and ITTs (5, 6, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20): 20, 17, 15, (descending to 15th place)

Intermediate sprint: 20, 17, 15, (descending to 15th place)

Last 10 winners of the Tour de France points classification:

• 2013:  Peter Sagan
• 2014: Peter Sagan
• 2015: Peter Sagan
• 2016: Peter Sagan
• 2017: Michael Matthews
• 2018: Peter Sagan
• 2019: Peter Sagan
• 2020: Sam Bennett
• 2021: Mark Cavendish
• 2022: Wout van Aert

Tour de France jerseys: Polka dot - King of the Mountains classification leader

Tour de france polka dot jersey - mountains classification.

Mountains points are awarded to riders who manage to summit classified climbs first. Points vary depending on the category of each ascent, with more difficult climbs awarding more mountains points.  

Climbs are divided into five categories: 1 (most difficult) to 4 (least difficult) - then there's the ' Hors Categorie ', denoted by HC which represents the most challenging of ascents. The tougher the category, the more points on offer, and to more riders - a HC climb will see points awarded down to the first eight over the summit, while a fourth category climb results in points for just the first rider over the top.

The organisers decide which mountains or climbs will be included in the competition, and which category they fall into. If the stage features a summit finish, the points for the climb are doubled.

The points are tallied up after each stage and added to points won in all previous stages. The distinctive white-with-red-dots jersey ( maillot à pois rouges ) is given to the rider with the most mountains points. The first climber's award was given out in 1933, and the jersey arrived on the scene in 1975. It is now sponsored by Leclerc, a supermarket.

Points awarded as follows:

HC: 20, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2pts  

1st cat: 10, 8, 6, 7, 5, 1pt 

2nd cat: Five, three, two.

3rd cat: Two and one points 

4th cat: One point 

The souvenir Henri Desgrange is awarded to the first rider over the race’s highest point, the Col de Loze, on stage 17. The souvenir Jacques Goddet to the first rider over the Col du Tourmalet on stage 16. 

Last 10 winners of the Tour de France mountains classification:

• 2013:  Nairo Quintana
• 2014:  Rafał Majka
• 2015:  Chris Froome
• 2016: Rafał Majka
• 2017: Warren Barguil
• 2018: Julian Alaphilippe
• 2019: Romain Bardet

Tour de France white jersey - best young rider

The plain white, young rider classification jersey is awarded to the fastest rider born after 1 January 1998, meaning 25 or under. It is sponsored by Krys, an opticians

First introduced in 1975, riders such as Marco Pantani, Alberto Contador, Egan Bernal and Tadej Pogačar have all won the young rider classification, helping propel them onto bigger and better things during their careers.

Last 10 winners of the Tour de France young rider classification:

• 2014:  Thibaut Pinot
• 2015: Nairo Quintana
• 2016:  Adam Yates
• 2017: Simon Yates
• 2018: Pierre Latour
• 2022: Tadej Pogačar

Other Tour de France classifications - team and combativity

There are two further classifications that do not earn the winner(s) a coloured jersey - the most aggressive rider award and Team Classification .

While not necessarily a classification, the Combativity Award is given to the rider who has shown the most fighting spirit during each individual stage, as chosen by the race jury. They will wear a gold race number during the following day's stage. A 'Super Combativity' award is handed out on the final stage for the most aggressive rider during the whole race.

The Team Classification is based on the collective time of the three highest-placed riders from each squad. Leaders of the team classification get to wear race numbers that are yellow with black digits, and the right to wear yellow helmets. The latter is not compulsory.

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2022 Tour de France results: Final leaderboard as Jonas Vingegaard wins race

Here’s who’s in contention to win the maillot jaune at Le Tour as of now.

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The Tour de France is the biggest event in cycling, and 176 riders began the 2022 race on Friday, July 1 to determine the most complete rider in the world.

For 21 stages over 24 days, the best cyclists in the world will pedal over flat roads, climb punishing mountains, and eventually finish in Paris to determine the winner of the yellow jersey. Those riders are split into 22 teams of eight, with most in support of a team leader they’d like to see bring home the biggest prize in the sport.

The Tour this year begins in Denmark, where three stages will be contested over mostly flat roads around the nation. From there the race will head to France for the last 18 stages, with most road racing until the Pyrenees mountains in the southeast part of L’Hexagone begin to give the climbers a chance to compete.

And the last week of the race sees the peloton head to the Alps, where the yellow jersey is usually decided. A final day on the streets of Paris will be the 21st and final stage, as the riders that have survived the grueling three-plus weeks will finish along one of the most famous stretches of road in the world, the Champs-Elysees.

Stage 1 recap : Yves Lampaert won the opening time trial, finishing five seconds ahead of Wout van Aert to claim the yellow jersey in Copenhagen.

Stage 2 recap : Pre-stage favorite Fabio Jakobsen won a sprint in the final kilometer to secure the stage victory. Wout van Aert finished second and moved past Yves Lampaert to claim the yellow jersey. A sizable crash split the peloton in half, but because it happened within the final three kilometers they claim the same time as the group winner. Tadej Pogačar was part of that group and remains in third for the yellow jersey.

Stage 3 recap : Dylan Groenewegen managed to win a photo finish at the line to take home the stage. With the sprint at the end, he also moved to third in the points race with 15 total, five adrift from Magnus Nielsen from Team EF Education-Easypost. Wout Van Aert is second in points and finished second in the stage, and the six-second time bonus for doing so puts him :07 ahead over Yves Lampaert, so he will retain the yellow jersey. It’s been a battle of sprinters so far, and we’ll see how long that holds as the race moves to Metropolitan France.

Stage 4 recap : It was a rare solo breakaway from the man in the yellow jersey, as Wout van Aert gets his first stage win of 2022 after finishing second in the first three stages in Denmark. The Belgian now has a :25 lead in the general classification, and seems to be the favorite to hold the lead until at least the Pyrenees.

Stage 5 recap : A day filled with crashes and cobblestones was wild, but despite playing the role of domestique most of the day, Wout van Aert remains in the maillot jaune. As the last man across the line in a four-man breakaway, American Neilson Powless pulled himself into second place for the yellow jersey for Team EF Education-Easypost following a failed sprint for the line. Australia’s Simon Clarke looked to be no better than third with less than half a kilometer remaining, but a tremendous push got him the photo finish victory over Taco van der Hoorn of The Netherlands. Van Aert is still the leader with a :13 advantage over Powless.

Stage 6 recap : With a pair of breakaways at the end of the stage, Tadej Pogačar had enough in the tank to pull away at the end and take the stage by a couple bike lengths as the first group crossed the line. With the :10 time bonus for the win, he also ended up four seconds ahead of America’s Neilson Powless for the yellow jersey. Yesterday’s maillot jaune holder Wout van Aert had a true struggle, falling 07:28 off the pace today and likely ending his time near the top of the GC.

Stage 7 recap : A dramatic overtaking by yellow jersey holder Tadej Pogačar over Lennard Kamna with less than 50 meters to the finish line gave him the stage win to extend his lead at the Tour de France. At the summit of La Super Planche des Belles Filles, Pogačar was pulled to the finish line by Jonas Vingegaard, but passed him as well near the line for the bonus :10 for winning the stage.

Kamna just ran out of gas, settling for fourth after a wonderful effort from the front all day.

Stage 8 recap : Wout van Aert wins his second stage of the 2022 Tour de France with a sprint to the line at the top of a climb in Lausanne, Switzerland on Saturday. But Tadej Pogačar, who had won the last two stages, continues his stranglehold on the event by finishing third today to extend his lead to :39 in the General Classification.

Pogačar now wears the yellow jersey, would also wear the white for best young rider if there was space on his body, is second for the polka dots for best climber, and third for the green as the best in the points race.

Stage 9 recap : Bob Jungels won the mountain stage that started in Switzerland and finished in France. He became the first Luxembourg cyclist in 11 years to claim a stage victory. He won by 22 seconds over Jonathan Castroviejo.

Tadej Pogačar finished in fifth place in a virtual tie with Jonas Vingegaard, which means there is no change at the top of the yellow jersey standings. Pogačar remains 39 seconds ahead of Vingegaard. Geraint Thomas finished three seconds behind the top two, which means he is now 1:17 back of Pogačar in the overall standings.

Stage 10 recap : While it was a rough day for the leaders, who fell behind a breakaway pack that consolidated the top of the GC, it was a dramatic finish on an airfield at the top of a 12 mile climb. Magnus Nielsen threw his bike at the finish line to take the Stage 10 win from Nick Schultz on Tuesday.

Tadej Pogačar needed to push at the end to keep the yellow jersey, but he remains 11 seconds ahead of Lennard Kämna who was part of the original breakaway group that crossed the line about eight minutes in front of the maillot jaune.

Stage 11 recap : A daring breakaway from Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard with about three miles to go won him his first-ever stage in the Tour de France, and also put him in the yellow jersey for the first time in his career on Wednesday.

Vingegaard attacked while on the final climb, and no one had the energy to go with him. Nairo Quintana was able to stay :59 back, but the breakaway from a rider that had yet to win a stage in the Tour in his career seemed to catch most of the others by surprise. As his reward, he now has over a two-minute lead in the biggest race in cycling.

Stage 12 recap : During a dramatic climb of the legendary Alpe d’Huez on Bastille Day in France, it was a British rider taking top honors as Thomas Pidcock of Team Ineos Grenadiers crossed the line first during Stage 12 of the 2022 Tour de France on Thursday.

Jonas Vingegaard took over the yellow jersey for the first time yesterday, and he went with the previous wearer in two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar in what was mostly a side-by-side ascent for the two leaders of Le Tour. With both men crossing the line at the same time, Vingegaard maintains his 2:22 lead over Pogacar heading into Stage 13.

Stage 13 recap : Former world champion Mads Pedersen won his first stage ever at the Tour de France as part of a three-man breakaway on the 192.6 km trip from Le Bourg d’Oisans to Saint-Étienne on Friday. The flat stage follows several days of rides through the Alps, and recovery of energy was the order of the day for most of the field.

The peloton elected to allow a six-man breakaway with no effect on the GC, and Pedersen made a move from that group with about 15 km remaining. He was joined by Fred Wright and Hugo Houle, but the strength of Pedersen as a sprinter made the outcome not much in doubt even inside of a mile remaining.

Stage 14 recap : After two runner up finishes in the 2022 Tour de France so far, Australia’s Michael Matthews got his first win in Stage 14 on Saturday via a late charge over Italy’s Alberto Bettiol.

There was a 23-man breakaway group from the rest of the trailing peloton, but two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar was unable to gain any distance on yellow jersey holder Jonas Vingegaard. Pogacar attempted to break away to regain some of the 2:22 he’s trailing, but Dane Vingegaard stayed right on his rear wheel all the way up the final climb and to the finish to lose not even a second on the day.

Stage 15 recap : A whopping 52 riders crossed the line with the same time, but Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen won the sprint to the line today in Carcassonne to take home the 15th stage of the 2022 Tour de France. The 202.5 km stage was mostly flat, and gave some of the stronger sprinters in the field a chance to garner a victory.

Overall Tour leader Jonas Vingegaard did crash, but recovered with no damage and finished with the same time as the others in contention for his yellow jersey. He still has a sizable lead over second place Tadej Pogacar (2:22 behind) and Geraint Thomas (2:43) heading into Monday’s off day.

Stage 16 recap : Canada’s Hugo Houle became only the second rider from his country to claim a Tour de France stage win on Tuesday, winning the first stage in the Pyrenees with a solo surge, crossing 70 seconds ahead of anyone else on the 178.5km journey from Carcassonne to Foix.

But for the maillot jaune, nothing changes. Jonas Vinegaard remains 2:22 ahead of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar, and still has a 2:43 lead on Britain’s Geraint Thomas. Vinegaard needs to stay glued to the wheel of Pogacar for three more days and he would take home the victory. Vinegaard has moved to becoming the -300 favorite at DraftKings Sportsbook , with Pogacar a +250 underdog.

Stage 17 recap : Jonas Vingegaard in the yellow jersey continued to stay glued to the rear wheel of the second place Tadej Pogacar the entire day. Pogacar failed to separate as part of the three-man lead group with American Brandon McNulty of Team UAE’s, so the top two riders in the General Classification crossed the line 1-2, with Pogacar taking the stage win. Vingegaard happily conceded only four bonus seconds, and his 2:18 overall advantage is here with three stages remaining.

2018 Tour winner Geraint Thomas finished 2:07 further behind the leaders today, and is now 4:56 back and likely out of contention. Belgium’s Wout Van Aert also locked up the green jersey after an intermediate sprint, with a points so big he cannot be caught.

Stage 18 recap : With a stage win that likely secures his 2022 Tour de France victory, yellow jersey holder Jonas Vingegaard won the stage with a terrific attack up the final climb. he gained an additional 1:08 on two-time defending TdF champion Tadej Pogacar, and the lead is 3:26 with just three stages remaining, and none in the mountains.

Vingegaard is now the massive favorite to become the first Danish winner of the Tour since Bjarne Riis in 1996.

Stage 19 recap : France gets on the board with a stage win, Christophe Laporte becomes the first rider from his country to win a 2022 Tour de France stage. A sprint at the end pulled him away from the final group, giving him enough time to celebrate crossing the line more than a full second than the rest of the pack.

It’s the fifth stage win for Laporte in his career, but there was no change at the top of the GC. Soon-to-be winner Jonas Vingegaard is 3:21 of Tadej Pogacar, and Team Jumbo - Visma now has three of the four jerseys. All Vingegaard needs is to stay on the bike tomorrow for the individual time trial, and he will be atop the podium in Paris.

Stage 20 recap : His name is Jonas, and he’s carryin’ the wheels to victory.

Belgium’s Wout van Aert wins his third stage of the 2022 Tour de France, but the story is the continued dominance of Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, who took second in the Stage 20 individual time trial on Saturday. Tadej Pogacar finished third, but dropped another eight seconds to fall 3:34 behind before tomorrow’s final stage in Paris.

It will be a celebration from Team Jumbo - Visma, with plenty of champagne.

Stage 21 recap : Jasper Philipsen picked up his second stage win of the 2022 Tour de France on the Champs-Elysees on Sunday, as what has been a dramatic run to the yellow jersey comes to a close.

Jonas Vingegaard takes home the yellow for Denmark, while Tadej Pogacar’s dynasty takes at least a bit of a falter as the two-time defending champion finishes second. Pogacar wins the white jersey as the best young rider under 25, and Wout van Aert the green jersey for the points race as the best sprinter. Expect van Aert to potentially be competing with his own team for yellow sometime soon.

Vingegaard also gets the polka dots as the King of the Mountains for his coming-out party in this year’s Tour.

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Tour de France 2023: Yellow jersey guide and ratings – Can anyone topple Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar?

Updated 29/06/2023 at 13:23 GMT

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and two-time winner Tadej Pogacar will renew their rivalry when the Tour de France gets under way in Bilbao on Saturday July 1. While the Dane and the Slovenian are the stand-out favourites for yellow, who else can make a push for the podium in Paris? Felix Lowe looks at all the general classification contenders looking to stake their claim for yellow in France.

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Neilson Powless came within a whisker of riding into the yellow jersey Wednesday and Thursday at the Tour de France in what would have been the first American yellow jersey in more than a decade.

Or would it?

American cycling packs a controversial legacy with the Tour and the yellow jersey, and that’s putting it mildly.

Five Americans have worn the prized tunic across Tour history, but four of them have seen their legacies tainted by outright bans or doping admissions that put an asterisk on their palmarés .

Four have seen their names struck from the history books.

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Greg LeMond , the first American to win the Tour, is the only rider among the quintet whose legacy remains untarnished and is the only U.S. racer whose stints in the yellow jersey remain in the official Tour-backed history books.

Lance Armstrong , David Zabriskie, George Hincapie and Floyd Landis all wore yellow, but all four no longer appear as yellow jerseys in the official Tour history.

Some of their exploits, including stage wins and appearances, remain on the official register if deemed to be before or after their admitted doping practices.

All four of their yellow jersey runs, however, have been deleted due to doping positives and doping admissions.

Armstrong wore the yellow jersey 83 days during his career that was second on the all-time list, but his Tour record of seven-straight Tour wins from 1999 to 2005 was erased in the wake of the 2012 USADA case that peeled back the depths of doping during the Armstrong era.

Despite decades of other doping scandals at the Tour, Armstrong is the only former Tour winner whose name has been retroactively removed from the Tour’s official results in race history.

The official record now stands at five Tour victories, a mark held by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Indurain.

Other former Tour winners who later admitted to doping or who were linked to doping scandals, including the likes of Bjarne Riis, Jan Ullrich and Marco Pantani, see their names remaining on the official winner’s list.

Landis won the 2006 Tour, but he was disqualified in the days following the Paris ceremony when anti-doping controls revealed he tested positive for testoerone.

Because his doping ban was in real time, his name was officially struck from results sheet, with Spanish rider Óscar Pereiro being awarded the victory.

In contrast, the years coinciding with Armstrong’s seven Tours remain vacant on the official results sheet and without official winners.

Hincapie and Zabriskie also held yellow during their respective careers.

Zabriskie wore yellow after winning the opening time trial in the 2005 Tour with a team directed and managed by Riis. Hincapie donned yellow in stage 1 early in the 2006 Tour.

Both riders later confessed to doping at periods throughout their respective careers.

Like Armstrong, their results and their respective stints in yellow have been struck from the official results sheet.

Since 2006, American riders have struggled to match the exuberant success of the Armstrong era to win stages or hit the yellow jersey.

Armstrong was within a fraction of a second of snatching yellow in his comeback Tour in 2009, but lost out on it based on tie-breaker rules to Fabian Cancellara in stage 5.

Then-teammate Alberto Contador later attacked Armstrong in the Pyrénées, and the pair battled all the way to Paris, with Contador winning and Armstrong finishing third in one of the most notorious Tours in history.

Armstrong’s podium was also erased by the Tour organization as part of the USADA decision, and he retired in early 2011 under a growing cloud of controversy.

Greg LeMond remains the only official US winner and wearer of the yellow jersey

Since then, Tejay van Garderen was the closest American who came within a whisker of yellow in stage 2 in 2018. Teammate Greg van Avermaet crossed the line just ahead of second-place Van Garderen first in a team time trial to wear yellow.

Van Garderen twice finished fifth in the Tour, and retired in 2021 without coming that close to yellow again.

Powless’s fourth-place in stage 5 is the best stage result so far by an American in this Tour. Tyler Farrar won a stage in the 2011 Tour, and he was the last American to win a Tour stage until Sepp Kuss bounded to victory last year in Andorra.

Powless came close to yellow. On Wednesday, only a late chase kept Wout van Aert in yellow after Powless rode into the day’s winning breakaway, and he climbed to second at 13 seconds back.

Powless started Thursday’s stage nine seconds ahead of Tadej Pogačar, who won stage 6 and climbed into yellow thanks to time bonuses. Powless started Friday’s seventh stage in second overall at four seconds overall.

Had Pogačar not won Thursday, Powless would have been in yellow since he finished on the same time as the two-time Tour champion.

So is LeMond the last — and only — American to wear yellow?

LeMond wore the yellow jersey on 22 days during his Tour history.

LeMond won the 1986, 1989 and 1990 editions of the Tour. Early in the 1991 Tour, LeMond donned the maillot jaune for five days, and he never got it back.

If doping admissions and bans are the threshold, the first, last, and only American to wear yellow is Greg LeMond.

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Lotte Kopecky Won’t Be Racing the Tour de France Femmes

The Paris-Roubaix winner will prioritize Olympic medals instead, with the Omnium event wrapping just a day before the Tour begins.

Last year at the Tour , Kopecky wore the yellow jersey before teammate Demi Vollering took it over on the Col du Tourmalet. Thanks to an impressive performance in the opening stage, Kopecky spent six stages in yellow. She attacked with about 10 km left and crossed the finish line 41 seconds ahead of the rest of the peloton. Kopecky ended up the overall runner-up.

This year, the Belgian will be going all-in at the velodrome, where she hopes to win the first Olympic medals of her career. Trying to transition immediately from track racing to the Tour would just be too much. “The Omnium ends Sunday afternoon, the Tour starts Monday morning. That is almost unfeasible to do that in a good way,” said sporting manager Danny Stam, according to Sporza .

“Combining those two events would also be a very difficult task mentally. If you were to take Olympic gold, it’s too short a day to start the next morning in the Tour. She can now fully focus on the Games,” Stam added.

GCN reported that Kopecky has “high hopes both on the road and track at the Olympics, where she will look to convert her successes from the World Championships into Olympic gold. The 28-year-old is a multiple world champion on the track across the Madison, Elimination, and Points race disciplines.”

So far, Kopecky’s best Olympic result was fourth place in the road race at the Tokyo Games.

Even though fans will be disappointed not to see Kopecky racing the Tour de France Femmes, there will still be plenty of action to watch. The World Champion will be racing the Tour of Britain Women in June before returning to the Giro d’Italia Women in July. And then, of course, the Olympics in Paris, which run from July 26 to August 11.

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Favorites for the General Classification of the Giro d'Italia 2024 | Tadej Pogacar? These gentlemen also dream of the pink jersey

Is there a more beautiful jersey in cycling than the pink one? Tadej Pogacar must have thought the same thing, as after winning two yellow jerseys in the Tour de France, the Slovenian is finally making his debut in the Giro d'Italia this year. The top favorite? Absolutely. But in the Tour of Italy, it’s not always the favorite who wins. IDLProCycling.com lists the top ten contenders for the overall victory!

Please also read/coming soon on IDLProCycling.com:

- Preview of the Giro d'Italia

- Favorites for the points classification (purple jersey)

- Favorites for the mountain classification (blue jersey)

- Favorites for the youth classification (white jersey)

- Betting pool tips for the Giro d'Italia

Recent winners Giro d'Italia

2023 - Primoz Roglic

2022 - Jai Hindley

2021 - Egan Bernal

2020 - Tao Geoghegan Hart

2019 - Richard Carapaz

2018 - Chris Froome

2017 - Tom Dumoulin

2016 - Vincenzo Nibali

2015 - Alberto Contador

2014 - Nairo Quintana

Favorites for the General Classification of the Giro d'Italia 2024

To compile this list, (former) editors at IDLProCycling.com were asked for their top ten in response to the question: "Who is most likely to win the Giro d'Italia?" Each top ten was assigned points as follows: 12 points for first place, 10 for second place, and then 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 point respectively. For each rider, the total points received were converted into a percentage of the maximum points possible. This percentage is indicated next to each rider. This helps give a clearer view of how the odds stack up according to IDLProCycling.com!

Antonio Tiberi/Juan Pedro López - Bahrain Victorious/Lidl-Trek: 17/108 points (15.7%)

We start off with a tie in the rankings. Antonio Tiberi appeared seven times on our lists, but often in the ninth or tenth spot. The 22-year-old Italian will chase a classification for the first time in a grand tour for Bahrain Victorious, and why would he not be able to surprise everyone? His third place in the Tour of the Alps was impressive. Top five is his goal, but with us, he just has to make do with narrowly making the top ten.

The same applies to Juan Pedro López, the winner of the Tour of the Alps and a former wearer of the pink jersey for several days. Representing Lidl-Trek, the 26-year-old Spaniard seems to have carte blanche to try again. His stage win in the Alps—where he dramatically dropped everyone—promises much. The problem for him are the time trial kilometers, so he must go on the offensive in his beloved mountains for a top ranking.

Damiano Caruso - Bahrain Victorious: 18/108 points (16.7%)

At number nine, we find Damiano Caruso, Tiberi's teammate at Bahrain Victorious and, of course, the runner-up of the 2021 Giro! That same year, he also won a stage in the Vuelta. However, the Tour de France in 2022 and 2023 didn't go as well for him.

Can he do it again at the age of 36? Or will it be more about chasing stage wins and supporting the new generation? His results in 2024 haven't been very spectacular, but neither were they before his second place in 2021. Caruso is tough, never count him out!

Luke Plapp - Jayco-AlUla: 18/108 points (16.7%)

Scoring the same as Caruso but placed a spot higher, Luke Plapp has caught the attention of several editors who believe he could be this Giro’s surprise package. One even placed him third! Why? Plapp finished sixth in Paris-Nice and seems to be climbing better than ever. Moreover, the Australian from Jayco-AlUla is an outstanding time trialist.

His switch from INEOS Grenadiers to Jayco is paying off, although he recently mentioned that the team's focus for the classification is on Eddie Dunbar. The Irishman isn't on our list, but Plapp is. He’s poised to surprise us. The Giro has often been a platform for riders to come into their own. Maybe this is the moment for the 23-year-old Plapp.

Daniel Felipe Martínez - BORA-hansgrohe: 39/108 points (36.1%)

Another man who, after a surprising departure from INEOS, has been tearing up the streets is Daniel Felipe Martinez. He beat Remco Evenepoel twice (!) in explosive finishes at the Tour of the Algarve. And let’s not forget his role as a domestique for the overall winner Egan Bernal in 2021, where he finished fifth in the Giro.

At BORA-hansgrohe, this year is all about the Tour de France. They are sending Primoz Roglic, Jai Hindley, and Aleksandr Vlasov to focus on it. This gives Martinez free rein to fully explore his potential as a GC contender. If he's really on point, he can compete with the best. He has, after all, also won the GC in the Dauphiné and the Tour of the Basque Country in his career.

Cian Uijtdebroeks - Visma | Lease a Bike: 46/108 points (42.6%)

At Visma | Lease a Bike, since December, they have had one goal: to make a splash in the Giro! Despite losing Wout van Aert and Wilco Kelderman to injuries, there remains more than enough quality to compete for stage wins every day. Olav Kooij, Jan Tratnik, Attila Valter... Impressive, to say the least.

One rider who consistently sneaks under the radar is Cian Uijtdebroeks. The young Belgian's switch from BORA to Visma last winter has been much discussed, and the Giro might shed light on whether this move was beneficial. Considering his eighth-place finish in a competitive Vuelta in 2023, he’s expected to perform even better in this Giro... We're eager to see what he does!

Thymen Arensman - INEOS Grenadiers: 54/108 points (50.0%)

Thymen Arensman is the first and only Dutchman on this list (most of our editors are Dutch), but he's no ordinary competitor. Born to race for the GC, Arensman might not typically finish in the top three of explosive finales, but he consistently secured a strong top ten spot in both the 2022 Vuelta and 2023 Giro.

Having finished sixth twice in a grand tour, he's aiming higher now. Let’s say at least top five. Geraint Thomas is the declared leader at INEOS Grenadiers, but the 24-year-old Arensman is a dangerous dark horse. After finishing fifth in the Algarve and sixth in the Tirreno, and with a year at INEOS under his belt, it's time for him to harvest the fruits of his labor.

Ben O'Connor - Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale: 61/108 points (56.5%)

We're slowly moving towards the podium, but according to our editorial team, it might just be out of reach for Ben O'Connor. Nonetheless, the Australian from Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale is having an excellent season. There's no reason to believe he can't continue this form into the Giro.

The 28-year-old O'Connor is rock solid in the mountains and has improved significantly in time trials over the past few years. He won a stage in the 2020 Giro and followed up a year later with a stage win and an eighth-place finish in the final classification in the Tour de France. 2023 was marred by crashes and injuries, but in 2024, O'Connor has already impressed with a second-place finish in the UAE Tour and the Tour of the Alps, and fifth in the Tirreno.

Romain Bardet - Team dsm-firmenich PostNL: 68/108 points (63%)

Romain Bardet in the best form of his life? At Liège-Bastogne-Liège, he finished second with impressive form, after placing fifth at the Tour of the Alps. Watching a good Bardet race is a delight. And who knows what he might achieve in the GC if dsm-firmenich PostNL fully commits.

And why not? The time trials won't be easy for Bardet, but the Frenchman has greatly improved in this discipline and also has plenty of mountain stages and bonus sprints to compensate. After his second and third places in the Tour in '16 and '17, we'd love to see him on the podium again. However, it won't be handed to him on a silver platter!

Geraint Thomas - INEOS Grenadiers: 73/108 points (67.6%)

As previously noted, Geraint Thomas is the leader at INEOS Grenadiers, but it's always tough to fully gauge the Welshman. After his Tour de France victory in 2018, his career seemed to wane, but in recent years, he's rediscovered his top form. He finished third behind Pogacar and Vingegaard in the 2022 Tour and was the runner-up to Roglic in last year's Giro.

INEOS wants to race aggressively, whatever that may mean. Thomas on the attack? We've rarely seen that. He's mainly a model of consistency. Never really having a bad day, always finishing among the leaders. And in this way, we might see him on the podium again in Rome.

Tadej Pogacar - UAE-Team Emirates: 108/108 points (100%)

Whether any of the ten names mentioned can dream of overall victory will largely depend on one rider. Tadej Pogacar is the man to beat, the rider who stands out when everyone else is performing at their usual level. And this season, the Slovenian from UAE-Team Emirates is at his best...

He clinched a victory at Strade Bianche after an epic eighty-kilometer solo break, secured four (!) stage victories and the overall win in Catalonia, and topped it off with a win at Liège-Bastenaken-Liège following another bold solo effort from La Redoute. With a strong team backing him at UAE, if Pogacar stays healthy for three weeks, everything points to him dominating. However, the Giro still has to be raced, particularly with Pogacar also eyeing a win at the Tour de France this summer...

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Tour of Romandie win is career-best title for Carlos Rodriguez through rain-slicked final stage

The winner of the Tour de Romandie, Carlos Rodriguez, right, from Spain of team Ineos Grenadier, celebrates on the podium after the fifth and final stage, a 150,8 km race between Vernier and Vernier at the 77th Tour de Romandie UCI World Tour Cycling race, in Vernier near Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

The winner of the Tour de Romandie, Carlos Rodriguez, right, from Spain of team Ineos Grenadier, crosses the finish line of the fifth and final stage, a 150,8 km race between Vernier and Vernier at the 77th Tour de Romandie UCI World Tour Cycling race, in Vernier near Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

The winner of the stage, Dorian Godon from France of team Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale, crosses the finish line to win the fifth and final stage, a 150,8 km race between Vernier and Vernier at the 77th Tour de Romandie UCI World Tour Cycling race, in Vernier near Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, April 28, 2024. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)

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VERNIER, Switzerland (AP) — Carlos Rodriguez protected his yellow jersey through a rain-soaked final stage Sunday to win the six-day Tour of Romandie for the biggest race victory of his career.

Four previous winners in the French-speaking region of Switzerland went on to win that season’s Tour de France, including Chris Froome in 2013. Rodriguez placed fifth in cycling’s marquee event last year and won a stage.

Rodriguez started Sunday’s flat stage that looped round the suburbs of Geneva — won in a sprint finish by Dorian Godon — with a seven-second lead he took by placing third in a mountain stage Saturday.

The 23-year-old Ineos Grenadiers rider kept that winning margin over runner-up Aleksandr Vlasov, the 2022 Romandie winner. Third-placed Florian Lipowitz was third, trailing Rodriquez by nine seconds.

Godon sealed his second stage win this week, edging Simone Consonni with Dion Smith third.

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