STAGE PROFILE
DURING THE STAGE
Last km
Kämna reaches the !ast km gate, peloton comes 40 sec behind. Only Majka remains to help Pogacar, behind him Geraint Thomas waiting for the opprotunity.
Kämna on the gravels.
Majka waves, here is the moment for Pogacar to ride on his own. Vingegaard is right behind him. It’s a 6-7-man group.
Vingegaard attacks Pogacar.
The last corner comes and Kämna is caught.
Vingegaard is at the front, but Pogacar outsprints him and takes the stage.
This sport is just cruel.
4 km to go
Peloton within one minute.
UAE Team Emirates is setting the place again. They’ve just caught Teuns. What means, only Kämna and Geschke are out there.
UAE Team Emirates seems terrifying. Soon Pogacar has to attack to earn the benefits of his team’s work.
5 km to go
Kämna fought himself back to the front, and joined Geschke. Now Kämna has his move abnd leaves Geschke behind.
6 km to go
Also Durbridge dropped.
Geschke is still at the front, Kämna and Teuns are chasing him. Teuns seems to be the stronger and more active of them.
Meanwhile in the peloton, GC guys and climbing specialists are just appearing an the front. Is this time for NairoQuintana to attack?
7 km to go
Schachmann dropped, but at the sake time Kämne has his move. Also Teuns is keen to attack and repeat his success from 2019.
But Geschke makes the real move.
Peloton is slightly closer.
10 km to go
Pogacar is rather hiding in the bunch, while Ineos arrived at the front, Ganna is working for Thomas. Tom Pidcock, in the white jersey, is there too.
Gap is one and a half minute. The breakaway is practically doomed.
Erviti, dropped earlier, is caught by the peloton.
18 km to go
As I just wanted to say, that it might be a bit risky for Pogacar, that his team is contolling the main bunch, other teams are appearing at the front of the peloton. For example Jumbo -Visma, Cofidis, Movistar, or even Groupma -FDJ.
20 km to go
Inside the last 20 km, peloton only 2 minutes behind. Pogacar wants this stage, still his team os controlling the main bunch.
40 km to go
Geschke takes also the next climb.
The seven riderss have a 2 min 45 sec advantage ahead of the peloton.
44 km to go
As the gap between the breakaway riders and the peloton goes over 3 minutes, Max Schachmann becomes the virtual leader of the race . UAE Team Emirates doesn’t looks worried at all.
56 km to go
Only Erviti and Barthe remained as chaser of the five-man group at the fron of the race.
Peloton almost 3 mimutes behind. Still controlled by Pogacar’s team.
68 km to go
Geschke takes the climb.
72 km to go
Col de Gross Pierre (category 3) is nearing, it looks, that Kämna,Schachmann and Durbridge are at the front, while Giulio Ciccone dropped from the breakaway group that early.
Geschke and Teuns joins to the trio at the front
Peloton is contolled by UAE Emirates, basically the whole team is at the front of the main group
125 km to go
After a long period of attacks and attempts, which made the race quite fast1 , finally a breakaway group established.
Riders in the breakaway: Lanegen, Kämna, Schachmann, Asgreen, Erviti, Geschke, Teuns, Pedersen, Ciccone, Durbridge, Barthe.
Schachmann, Teuns and Kämna has the biggest chance to get the yellow if the gap is enough big.
176, 3 km to go
After his stage victory on the previous stage, Tadej Pogacar took the yellow jersey. This is the first stage, when Pogacar rides in the yellow jersey at this year’s Tour de France.
A visit to La Planche des Belles Filles holds deep significance for Pogacar, as it was here, just two years ago, that he donned the yellow jersey for the first time in his career.
Nobody will forget that indivudual time trial, for sure.