DURING THE STAGE
15.00
Four riders in the yellow jersey group. Vingegaard and Roglic are just forcing Pogacar to respond again and again. While my "black horse" of the race, Geraint Thomas is sitting in the back of this group and waiting.
14.50
It looks like for Jumbo-Visma Galibier is the "now or never" place of this Tour de France. Well, they managed to isolate Pogacar from his teammates on the short decent from Télégraphe before the start of the ascent of Galibier
14.40
Attack by Jumbo Visma from the peloton.
UAE Team Emirates was able to respond the action, but the group of favourites clearly reduced.
However, Tiesj Benoot is setting the pace currently at the front of the peloton, making the day for Pogacar and co a bit harder.
14:36
Mathieu van der Poel abandoned the race.
14.30
10 riders at the front of the race:
Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Mikaël Chérel (Ag2r-Citröen), Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Simon Geschke, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Victorious), Jonas Rutsch (EF Education-EasyPost), Warren Barguil (Arkéa-Samsic), Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) and Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech)
71 km to go, peloton is more than 9 minutes behind
Mark Hirschi dropped from the peloton, so, one rider minus for Pogacar on this stage
14.05
Gap is around 8 minutes with 83 km to go.
Col du Télégraphe is aprroaching.
13.55
Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel attacked right at the start of the day.
Later their duo expanded to a 20-man group with
Christophe Laporte, (Jumbo-Visma), Mikaël Chérel (AG2R-Citroën), Nils Politt, Max Schachman (Bora-Hansgrohe), Andrea Bagioli, Mattia Cattaneo (Quick Step), Simon Geschke, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Kamil Gradek, Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Victorious), Guillaume Van Keirsbulck (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Jonas Rutsch (EF), Warren Barguil (Arkéa-Samsic), Mads Pedersen, Tony Gallopin (Trek-Segafredo), Maciej Bodnar, Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies), Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech)
With 100 km to go, peloton was 4 and hal minutes behind this leading group.
Meanwhile, Mathieu van der Poel dropped from the breakaway group.
Oliver Naesen abandoned the race.