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Tour de France 2022 standings: Who is leading the race?

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As stage 19 concluded in a sprint finish won by Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) , there would be minimal changes in the standings at the Tour de France 2022 . 

Tadej Pogačar finished fifth on the day to steal back four seconds on the Danish rider who still holds a strong advantage over the second-overall Slovenian.

Yesterday Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) cemented his overall lead of the Tour de France by winning stage 18 at Hautacam . 

The stage was the second of two summit finishes in the Pyrenees, finishing at Hautacam before the final three stages of the action this year.

By taking another stage victory this afternoon, Jumbo-Visma proved their huge strength in depth within the Dutch squad as Laporte got in on the action.

In the points classification, Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) has all but won the green jersey and will wear it in Paris unless he abandons the race. The Belgian leads the competition by more than 200 points, and has held the jersey for nearly the entire race. Despite the best efforts of Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) yesterday, Jonas Vingegaard now leads in the King of the Mountains classification after winning the final mountain stage of the race. 

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Pogačar is firmly in control of the youth classification, with Tom Pidcock 30-05 behind. Barring disaster, he will retain the white jersey for the remainder of the Tour. 

Finally, Ineos Grenadiers continue to dominate the teams classification, aided by having three riders all within the top ten overall. 

Tour de France 2022 stage 19 results: Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors (188km)

1. Christophe Laporte (Fra) Jumbo-Visma, in 3-52-04 2. Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Deceuninck, at 1s 3. Alberto Dainese (Ita) Team DSM, 4. Florian Senechal (Fra) Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl, 5. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, 6. Amaury Capiot (Bel) Arkea-Samsic, 7. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) BikeExchange-Jayco, 8. Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Arkea-Samsic, 9. Luka Mezgec (Slo) BikeExchange-Jayco, 10. Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal, all at same time

Tour de France 2022 standings: General Classification after stage 19

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma, in 71-53-34 2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, at 3-21 3. Geraint Thomas (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, at 8-00 4. David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ, at 11-05 5. Nairo Quintana (Col) Arkea-Samsic, at 13-35 6. Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux, at 13-43 7. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus) Bora-Hansgrohe, at 14-10 8. Romain Bardet (Fra) Team DSM, at 16-11 9. Aleksey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Qazaqstan, at 20-24 10. Adam Yates (GBR) Ineos Grenadiers, at 20-32 

Tour de France 2022: Green jersey after stage 19

1. Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma, 460 pts 2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, 236 pts 3. Jasper Philipsen (Bel) Alpecin-Fenix, 235 pts 4. Christophe Laporte (Fra) Jumbo-Visma at 171 pts 5. Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo, 158 pts

Tour de France 2022: Mountains jersey after stage 19

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma, 72 pts 2. Simon Geschke (Deu) Cofidis, 64pts 3. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 61pts 4. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, 61 pts 5. Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma, 59 pts

Tour de France 2022: Young rider jersey after stage 19

1. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates, in 75-49-05 2. Tom Pidcock (GBr) Ineos Grenadiers, at 51-26 3. Brandon McNulty (USA) UAE Team Emirates, at 1-22-39

Tour de France 2022: Teams classification after stage 19

1. Ineos Grenadiers, in 227-39-23 2. Groupama-FDJ, at 32-37 3. Jumbo-Visma, at 42-16

Classifications at the Tour de France

Key riders at the Tour de France will be eyeing up a selection of brightly coloured jerseys . Namely, a yellow one (the General Classification leader), a spotty one (the King of the mountains), a green one (leading sprinter) and a white one (best young rider).

The yellow jersey is worn by the rider who has completed all of the stages - so far - in the shortest period of time. Therefore, after stage one, the winner will pull in the yellow jersey for stage two - but it's quite likely to change hands after that.

The King of the Mountains (KoM) will be picking up 'points' awarded at the top of key climbs - the number of points changes depending upon the classification of the climb. On HC climbs, first over the line gets 20 points, 1st Cat climbs it's 10, 3rd it's two, and 4th cat climbs earn just one point.

The Henri Desgrange and Jacques Godet prizes are awarded to the first rider over the race’s highest point (in 2022, that's Port d’Envalira on stage 15)  and the Col du Tourmalet (stage 18 in 2022) respectively. These are prizes of €5,000 and carry no extra points for the KoM jersey.

Points for the green jersey are awarded at the end of each stage and at the intermediate sprints. Race organisers ASO classify stages as either flat, hilly or mountainous and this impacts the points awarded, with more on offer for the flat stages to favour the sprinters. 

On flat stages, the winner gets 50 points. On hilly stages, it's 30, whilst on mountain stages, it's 20. There are also points for intermediate sprints, with the first-placed rider scooping up a further 20. 

In 2022, the young rider classification is open to riders born after January 1, 1997. The highest placed rider on GC wears the white jersey.

Finally, the team classification is calculated by adding the times of the three best riders on each team on every stage, and the leading team have the honour of wearing yellow race numbers.

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Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won the yellow jersey as the overall winner of the 2022 Tour de France. The 25-year-old outlasted two-time defending champion Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) of Slovenia to win his first Tour. Pogačar finished second, 2:43 back of Vingegaard, and Great Britain's Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) was third, 7:22 behind the lead, to round out the podium for the Tour's General Classification.

Here’s a look at how every stage of the 2022 Tour unfolded.

Stage 21 - Jasper Philipsen

Who Won the Tour?

Surrounded by his teammates, Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) finished safely behind the peloton at the end of Stage 21 in Paris to win the 2022 Tour de France. The Dane won the Tour by 3:34 over Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who started the race as the two-time defending champion, and 8:13 over Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers), who won the Tour in 2018 and finished second in 2019.

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won the field sprint on the Champs-Élysées to take the final stage, defeating the Netherlands’ Dylan Groenewegen (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) and Norway’s Alexander Kristoff (Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux) to win his second stage in this year’s Tour.

But the real story was Vingegaard, the 25-year-old from a fishing town in northern Denmark who is only the second rider from his nation to win the Tour de France. He rode an almost perfect race, only losing little bits of time to Pogačar on Stage 1, a rainy individual time trial in Copenhagen, Stage 5, a road stage over the cobbles of northern France, and on Stages 7, 8, and 9, when the Slovenian scored time bonuses at the end of each stage.

But Vingegaard was clearly just biding his time for the Alps, content to let Pogačar make big efforts for only a handful of seconds. And when it mattered most–on the steep slopes of the Col du Granon at the end of Stage 11–Pogačar was unable to respond when Vingegaard attacked to win the stage and take the yellow jersey that’s awarded each day to the rider who leads the Tour’s General Classification.

Pogačar vowed to keep fighting, and he kept his word. But Vingegaard responded quickly to each new assault, never faltering as the riders battled intense heat through the Massif Central. In the end it came down the Pyrenees, where Jumbo-Visma and UAE Team Emirates, each depleted due to the loss of key teammates, traded blows in the mountains. Again Vingeggard waited, following each of Pogačar’s accelerations with ease.

He delivered the coup de grace at the end of Stage 18 on the climb to Hautacam, the Tour’s last summit finish. Pulling away from Pogačar with about 4km left to climb, Vingegaard won the stage to put the Tour out of reach before Saturday’s time trial. Not leaving anything to chance, he still finished second in the race against the clock on Stage 20, confirming once and for all that the strongest rider won the 2022 Tour de France.

Pogačar isn’t going home empty-handed: in addition to finishing second overall, the 23-year-old won the white jersey as the Tour’s Best Young Rider and three stages during the Tour’s first week. But more importantly, he learned valuable lessons about how to better gauge his efforts during a Grand Tour. Pogačar remains the best all-around rider in the world, and with a little more tactical nous–and perhaps a bit more humility–he might get even better.

Who Really Won the Tour?

While INEOS-Grenadiers finished the Tour atop the Team’s Classification, Jumbo-Visma was the best team in the 2022 Tour de France.

In addition to winning the yellow jersey, Vingegaard also won the polka dot jersey as the winner of the Tour’s King of the Mountains competition. His teammate, Belgium’s Wout van Aert, won the green jersey as the winner of the Tour’s Points Classification and was also named the Tour’s Most Aggressive Rider. Along the way the team won six stages: three with van Aert, two with Vingegaard, and one with France’s Cristophe Laporte.

Perhaps even more impressive was the manner in which the team defended Vingegaard’s lead in the Pyrenees during the Tour’s third week. The team lost Slovenia’s Primož Roglič and the Netherlands’ Steven Kruijswijk on Stage 15, with Roglič not taking the start and Kruijswijk crashing out on the road to Carcassonne. Two of the team’s strongest climbers, some wondered if this would spell the end of the team’s dominance, but led by van Aert and American Sepp Kuss, the team had all the firepower it needed to defend and then extend Vingegaard’s lead.

Is it the best overall performance by a team in Tour history? It might be–at least in the modern era. In 2012 Team Sky went 1-2 with Britons Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome and took six stage wins. In 1984 Renault-Elf riders finished first- and third-overall (France’s Laurent Fignon and American Greg Lemond) and won an incredible ten stages. Lemond also won the white jersey as the Tour’s Best Young Rider.

But Jumbo-Visma is not a team that cares how it stacks-up against other teams in history–all that matters is that it finally won the Tour de France after several years of near-misses and heartbreak. As fans we’re all in for a treat in the coming years, as Vingegaard and Pogačar are both young and show no signs of letting up any time soon.

Stage 20 Winner - Wout van Aert

Who's Winning The Tour?

Jumbo has absolutely dominated this Tour, with six stage wins from three different riders and taking home three of the four jersey classifications. Much of that is due to van Aert, who was also awarded the race’s “Super Combativity” prize for being the most aggressive rider throughout the race.

A generational talent, van Aert is nearly unmatched in the sport for his versatility; perhaps only Ineos Grenadiers’ Tom Pidcock—reigning World Cyclocross Champion, Olympic MTB Champion, and Alpe d’Huez stage winner at this year’s Tour—has the same breadth of ability. The Belgian has now won nine Tour de France stages in four years, including time trials, field sprints, breakaways, uphill finishes, and mountain stages. He will also win his first green jersey, setting a record for the highest point total in that competition.

Who’s Really Winning the Tour?

Vingegaard, meanwhile, has cemented his rise to the top of the sport with a convincing Tour win that likely unseats Primož Roglič as Jumbo’s top GC rider. While Roglič has a deeper resumé of results, he’s been hit by bad luck in the Tour and at 32 is seven years older than Vingegaard.

At this year’s Tour, Vingegaard never seemed rattled by Pogačar’s aggressive racing to build an early lead, instead coolly waiting for the second half of the race where the long climbs suited his abilities. He withstood every challenge thrown at him, even when isolated in the Pyrenees on Stage 17 and almost crashing on the descent of the Col de Spandelles on Stage 18. As the strongest rider (this Tour, anyway) on the strongest team in the sport, Vingegaard put a decisive stop to Pogačar’s Tour-winning streak and showed that the foreseeable future of the Tour will be a massive fight between two of the sport’s best young racers, and maybe more.

Stage 19 Winner - Christophe Laporte

Who Winning The Tour?

In normal circumstances, Jumbo’s designated sprinter is Wout van Aert, winner of two stages this Tour, and who is mathematically assured to win the green jersey and score the highest points total ever in the competition. But on Stage 19, it was Laporte, who joined Jumbo in the offseason, who got the leadership nod and delivered the results.

An early breakaway of five was caught well before the finish, which soon triggered a dangerous move from three riders with just over 30km to go. So van Aert put in a powerful dig at the front in the final kilometers to help bring the group almost to the catch and then pulled off. Not long after, Laporte sprung his own perfectly timed move out of the pack, crossing the distance to the leaders and catching the others by surprise. On the slight rise to the finish and with leadouts in disarray behind, Laporte had plenty of room to hold off the chase and celebrate crossing the line.

Well, Jumbo. Entering the Tour, the Dutch powerhouse team was by broad consensus the strongest in the race. And even after losing two key riders to injury, they haven’t disappointed. Laporte’s victory is the fifth stage they’ve won this Tour, by three different riders, and they have excellent chances in the two remaining stages as well. They also will win three jerseys in Paris: van Aert’s green, plus Jonas Vingegaard’s yellow, and the polka-dot jersey for best climber, which Vingegaard also now leads after yesterday’s stage win.

The team is riding with huge confidence, as Laporte’s win shows. The 29-year-old Frenchman is a talented sprinter and Classics rider, but in his first year on Jumbo he’s showed a new level, highlighted by today's career-best moment. In eight previous seasons on Cofidis, his only other pro team, Laporte won 21 races, but it took his switch to Jumbo to get his first victories in WorldTour-level races. That’s a point that’s probably not lost on Cofidis, which is working a 14-year (and counting) dry streak since its last Tour stage win.

Stage 18 Winner - Jonas Vingegaard

Who’s Winning the Tour?

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) won Stage 18, the final summit finish of the 2022 Tour de France, to extend his lead at the top of the Tour’s General Classification. With the help of his Belgian teammate Wout van Aert, Vingegaard dropped Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) 4.4km from the top of the climb to Hautacam. Van Aert pulled-off a few hundred meters later, leaving Vingegaard alone to take the stage–and barring catastrophe, the Tour.

Vingegaard won Stage 18 by 1:04 over Pogačar, extending his GC advantage to 3:26 over the Slovenian. Van Aert, wearing the green jersey as the leader of the Tour’s Points Classification, finished third on the stage, pumping his fist as he crossed the finish line.

Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) finished fourth on the day, losing more time to Vingegaard and Pogačar, but cementing his hold on the Tour’s final podium spot, a whopping 8:00 behind Vingegaard, but more importantly 3:05 ahead France’s David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) who moved up to fourth overall by finishing fifth on Stage 18.

With three days left in the 2022 Tour de France, Vingegaard looks assured of standing on the top step of the podium in Paris. Barring a crash, a mechanical, or a terrible ride in Saturday’s 40km individual time trial, the Dane’s lead is too much for Pogačar to overcome. Pogačar and Thomas look certain to stand next to Vingegaard on the Tour’s final podium. Thomas is one the Tour’s better time trialists, and there’s little chance of Gaudu overtaking him.

By winning the Tour’s final summit finish atop the Hors Categorie climb to Hautacam, Vingegaard also took the lead in the Tour’s King of Mountains competition. He won’t get a chance to wear the polka dot jersey as the leader of the classification, but with only three Category 4 climbs left in the race, he’s assured of taking the prize.

In the end, Stage 18 capped a legendary team performance for Jumbo-Visma, who looks set to go home with the yellow, green, and polka dot jerseys and at least four stage wins. And with two more stages expected to end in sprints and a long time trial on Saturday–all of which suit van Aert–the team’s tally could increase.

Stage 17 Winner - Tadej Pogacar

Two days in the Pyrenees down, one to go: Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) once again held on to the yellow jersey as the overall leader of the 2022 Tour de France after finishing second on Stage 17 in Peyragudes. Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won the stage, outsprinting Vingegaard to win his third stage of this year’s Tour. Pogačar’s teammate, the United States’ Brendan McNulty, finished third after doing much of the work in the latter parts of the stage.

Pogačar trimmed four seconds from Vingegaard’s lead thanks to the 10-second time bonus he earned for winning the stage. (Vingegaard took six seconds of his own by finishing second.) The Dane now leads the Slovenian by 2:18 on the Tour’s General Classification. Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) lost time to both riders, but remains third overall, 4:56 behind Vingegaard.

Once again Vingegaard and Pogačar proved to be the two best riders in the 2022 Tour de France. Despite winning the stage, the long-range attacks that we expected from Pogačar never materialized. This has been the fastest Tour in history (so far), and given the intense heat the riders have faced and the tenacity with which Pogačar has raced since the Tour started almost three weeks ago, we suspect he’s simply running out of gas he needs to make large gains on Vingegaard.

Even after losing Poland’s Rafa Majka to a thigh injury before the start of the stage, leaving him with only three teammates, Pogačar’s team was the strongest on Stage 17, with McNulty setting a pace that dropped everyone but Vingegaard. With one more day in the Pyrenees with three categorized climbs including two “Beyond” Category ascents, Pogačar will need a similar performance from the American if he’s to have any chance of gaining more time on Vingegaard.

Thomas looks firmly entrenched in third. Despite losing time to Vingegaard and Pogačar on Stage 17, he gained time on everyone behind him. He now sits 2:57 ahead of Colombia’s Nairo Quintana (Arkéa–Samsic), and with a long individual time trial on Saturday, he should have no problems defending his place on the podium.

So tomorrow, all eyes will be–again–on the Tour’s top-2 riders, with one day left for Vingegaard to solidify his lead before the time trial, and one day left for Pogačar to get close enough to give himself a chance of winning a third consecutive Tour de France.

Stage 16 Winner - Hugo Houle

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) survived the first of three days in the Pyrenees to hold on to the yellow jersey as the overall leader of the 2022 Tour de France. The 25-year-old finished safely in a small group of GC contenders and their teammates in Foix at the end of Stage 16, maintaining his 2:22 advantage over Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), the two-time defending champion. After getting gapped on the final climb of the stage, Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) managed to rejoin the group of favorites on the long road down to the finish. He remains third overall, 2:43 behind Vingegaard on the Tour’s General Classification.

It was a bigger day for Canada and Israel-Premier-Tech, though as Canadian Hugo Houle won the stage and his teammate and compatriot, Michael Woods, finished third. A career domestique who usually spends his time sacrificing his own chances for the sake of other riders, Houle crossed the line pointing to the sky in honor of his brother Pierrik, who was killed by a drunk driver in 2012 while out for a run. Houle’s win is only the second Tour de France stage win for a Canadian in Tour history. Steve Bauer, Houle’s team director, won the nation’s first stage back 1988.

As expected, Pogačar started his assault on Vingegaard’s yellow jersey with a series of attacks on the day’s penultimate climb, the Category 1 Port de Lers. Accelerating multiple times on both the climb and the descent after the summit, the Slovenian was matched each time by Vingegaard, gaining no time on the yellow jersey. By the time the riders reached the day’s final climb, the Category 1 Mur de Péguère, Pogačar seemed happy to let others set the pace, resigned to the fact that Vingegaard wasn’t budging–at least not today.The stage a tactical battle between the Tour’s three best teams as Jumbo-Visma, UAE Team Emirates, and INEOS Grenadiers all sent riders on the attack early in the hopes that their team leaders would have an extra support rider for the long descent from the top of the final climb to the finish in Foix at the end of the stage. The plan worked well as Vingegaard had Belgium’s Wout van Aert (along with American Sepp Kuss, who stayed with Vingegaard over the final climb), Pogačar had American Brendan McNulty, and Thomas had Colombia’s Dani Martinez waiting to help. France’s Romain Bardet (Team DSM) was the day’s biggest loser. The former podium finisher entered the day fourth overall, but lost over 3:36 on the stage to fall to ninth, 6:37 behind Vingegaard. The Tour’s best Frenchman is now David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) who moved up to fifth overall (4:24 behind the leader) with another strong ride. And last but not least, there’s Colombia’s Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) who was the only rider able to hang with Vingegaard, Pogačar, and Kuss to the top of the Mur de Péguère. Currently fourth at 4:15, a podium finish might be a stretch given the fact that there’s a long individual time trial on Saturday. But a top-5 finish would be a fine result for the 32-year-old–especially if he’s somehow able to combine it with a mountain stage win on one of the next two stages. With Vingegaard and Pogačar locked in at the top of the GC, Quintana might be given a little bit of breathing room to go for the win on one the upcoming summit finishes.

Stage 15 Winner - Jasper Philipsen

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) survived a long, hot day in the saddle to retain the yellow jersey as the overall leader of the 2022 Tour de France. The 25-year-old finished safely with the leading group at the Stage 15 finish in Carcassonne, but the day also saw the departure of two of his most important teammates. Heading into the second Rest Day, the top-3 riders on the Tour’s General Classification remain unchanged with Vingegaard leading Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) by 2:22 and Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) by 2:43.

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) won the stage in Carcassonne, outsprinting Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Denmark’s Mads Pedersen to take the first Tour de France stage win of his career.

Despite defending Vingegaard’s lead for another day and van Aert’s second-place finish, Stage 15 was a day to forget for Jumbo-Visma. It began with the announcement that Slovenia’s Primož Roglič would not be starting the stage. The 32-year-old began the Tour as one of the favorites to win the race overall, but he crashed hard on the cobbled Stage 5, separating his shoulder and losing several minutes to the other GC contenders. With his own GC chances gone, he became a super-domestique on behalf of Vingegaard, and played a large role in helping his Danish teammate take the yellow jersey on Stage 11 in the Alps. But this morning he abandoned the race to begin recovering from the injuries he sustained, a calculated risk with three days in the Pyrenees still to come.

As if to emphasize that gamble, a crash with about 67km to go brought down the Netherlands’ Steven Kruijswijk, who was forced to abandon the race with a suspected broken collarbone. Another top climber for Jumbo-Visma, Kruijswijk was 13th overall at the start of the stage and his good form was likely one of the reasons why the team felt comfortable letting Roglič head home.

And then the unthinkable almost happened: as Kruijswijk was being lifted into an ambulance, another crash brought down Vingegaard and Belgium’s Tiesj Benoot, one of the team’s top all-rounders. The yellow jersey was quickly able to rejoin the peloton, but Benoot struggled behind, obviously hurting from the fall.

The loss of Roglič and Kruijswijk will be felt most in the Pyrenees, leaving the United States’ Sepp Kuss as Vingegaard’s best domestique in the mountains. Yes, Kuss is one of the best climbers in the peloton and is probably better than anyone else’s top mountain domestique, but losing Roglič and Kruijswijk decimates the team’s depth. And if Benoot’s injuries worsen during the Rest Day and he’s unable to start Stage 16, Jumbo-Visma will have only four riders left to protect the yellow jersey. That’s not good–especially with Pogačar clearly recovered from his bad day on Stage 11 and eager to throw everything he’s got at Vingegaard.

Stage 14 Winner - Michael Matthews

Australia’s Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) took a fantastic stage win, the fourth of his career. Riding with determination after several near-misses so far in this year’s Tour, the 31-year-old joined the day’s big breakaway, initiated the winning move in the stage’s final hour, dropped his two breakaway companions on the tough final climb, and was caught and gapped by Italy’s Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) midway up the ascent. But the Australian kept himself in contention, catching and then passing Bettiol while cresting the summit to win the stage—almost five years to the day after taking his last Tour de France stage victory. Bettiol finished second, and France’s Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) was third.

With the Pyrenees looming, the battle to win the 2022 Tour de France has been reduced to just two contenders, with Pogačar attacking and Vingegaard having no trouble following the Slovenian’s acceleration on the Côte de la Croix Neuve at the end of Stage 14. Behind them, the rest of the Tour’s general classification contenders all lost time.

But while the time gaps between Pogačar-Vingegaard and the other contenders weren’t huge on the finish line in Mende, it’s clear that everyone else is racing for third–a boon to Vingegaard as Pogačar will likely find few allies willing to risk a possible podium place by attacking the yellow jersey in the final week.

Even better for Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma is the fact that Pogačar and his team continue to make questionable decisions. The Slovenian launched a 200-meter sprint at the end of the stage–for no good reason–and the team put Spain’s Marc Soler in the day’s big breakaway, which might have made sense had the team not already lost two riders to COVID-19. If Pogačar is to win a third Tour de France, he’s going to need all the help he can get from his teammates, and allowing Soler to waste energy on a day like this might be something they later regret.

Stage 13 Winner - Mads Pedersen

Former world champion Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) put on a display of perfectly executed tactics as he won a three-way sprint from the remains of the day’s breakaway, to take victory in Stage 13 of the Tour de France.

Pedersen narrowly missed out on stage win chances back in the Tour’s start in his native Denmark. But he made up for that disappointment on a transitional stage out of the Alps, taking his first-ever Tour victory out of a day-long breakaway. Pedersen specializes in hard days in bad weather, and while that usually means cold, wet conditions like his 2019 World Championship title, he proved equally as capable in withering heat.

Pedersen joined a seven-rider breakaway that finally established itself after 50km of hard racing. With world-class time trialists Filippo Ganna (Ineos-Grenadiers) and Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) in the mix, the pack—led by sprint teams Lotto-Soudal and Alpecin-Deceuninck—kept a tight leash on the gap. American Tour debutants Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) and Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) also joined.

But a heavy crash by Lotto sprinter Caleb Ewan at around 75km to go disrupted the chase severely. Ewan, clearly hurt, briefly regained the main field but soon dropped back again, and his team pulled off the front. BikeExchange-Jayco took up the hunt, but without allies they were unable to make much of a dent in the gap given the raw horsepower driving the break. With the break’s survival all but assured, Pedersen attacked on a grinding false flat with 13km to go, dropping everyone but Bahrain-Victorious’s Fred Wright and Hugo Houle of Israel-Premier Tech, then positioned himself perfectly to outsprint them at the finish.

For yellow jersey wearer Jonas Vingegaard, today was a day to stay out of the wind and out of trouble. He had little issue accomplishing that, capably protected by his powerhouse Jumbo-Visma team. The day was not expected to offer difficulties for him and generally didn’t. But a brief split in the peloton with around 40km to go hinted at risks to come in the next two days.

Saturday’s Stage 14 is another lumpy one, through the Massif Centrale with an uphill finish in Mende on the short but steep Cote de Croix Neuve. Sunday’s stage has the risk of crosswinds, and both should be uncomfortably hot. Vingegaard will simply be looking to get through both without mishaps and try to recover as well as he can ahead of the Pyrenees.

Stage 12 Winner - Tom Pidcock

A day after taking the yellow jersey, Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) remained atop the General Classification of the 2022 Tour de France after finishing sixth on Stage 12 atop the legendary climb of Alpe d’Huez. The Dane had little trouble following the attacks of Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), the two-time defending Tour champion who lost the yellow jersey as the Tour’s overall leader on Stage 11. The Slovenian made three hard accelerations on the upper half of the climb, all of which were easily covered by Vingegaard.

Thanks to his efforts, Pogačar moved up to second overall at 2:22, overtaking France’s Romain Bardet (Team DSM) on the final climb to gain a spot on GC. Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) jumped over the Frenchman into third at 2:26. Bardet recovered enough to stay within sight of the podium; he now sits fourth overall at 2:35.

The stage went to Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers), the third-youngest rider in this year’s Tour. Winner of the mountain bike race at the Olympic Games in Tokyo last summer, the Briton used his superior descending skills to bridge up to the breakaway earlier in the stage, putting himself in contention for the victory. South Africa’s Louis Meintjes (Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux) finished second, and Great Britain’s Chris Froome (Israel-PremierTech), himself a 4-time winner of the Tour, finished third.

We learned two things on Stage 12: Pogačar has recovered from his jour sans on Stage 11 and has no intention of going down without a fight; and Vingegaard and his Jumbo-Visma team are up to the challenge of defending the yellow jersey. Pogačar pulled no punches when attacking on Alpe d’Huez, but Vingegaard immediately responded, riding tempo behind the Slovenian, almost daring him to blow himself up in a fruitless effort to dislodge the yellow jersey.

Pogačar’s final attack came as the riders approached the finish line, a questionable choice considering there were no time bonuses to be gained. Thomas even shook his head as he crossed the line, perhaps also wondering why Pogačar made such an effort to gain nothing on his rivals. Many have suggested that Pogačar’s relentless attacks during the Tour’s first week left him exposed on Stage 11. If true, his sprint at the end of Stage 12 perhaps indicates that he still has a few lessons to learn. Regardless, we’re in for a treat as the Tour continues. Vingegaard’s lead is large, but Pogačar is the most dangerous rider in the peloton. The Tour is far from over.

Stage 11 Winner - Jonas Vingegaard

Vingegaard’s team set the race on its ear midway through the 151.7km stage, when Primož Roglič accelerated out of the group of contenders and blew up the pack on the long, double ascent of the Col du Telegraphe and Col du Galibier. Pogačar followed along with some of the other top riders, but was isolated from his team, which has been reduced by COVID positives. The two favorites traded attacks but neither could get clear of the other, and small groups eventually reformed on the Galibier and on the descent to the final climb.

On the seldom-used Granon, which hasn’t been a Tour climb in 36 years, Vingegaard’s team strength of five against two for Pogačar’s UAE-Team Emirates squad was quickly reduced, but it didn’t seem to bother the Danish rider. After attacks by Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) and Romain Bardet (DSM), Vingegaard countered and quickly gained a significant gap on Pogačar (who didn’t really try to follow), then pressed his advantage to overtake all other riders on the road and take a convincing stage win.

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Jumbo brought their full team strength today and was rewarded with the stage win and race lead for Vingegaard. And what a lead: after entering the day :39 down to Pogačar, he’s now 2:16 clear of Bardet in second, and 2:22 ahead of Pogačar. Jumbo has the strongest team in the race and is now well-positioned to defend Vingegaard’s lead.

For Pogačar’s part, the two-time defending Tour champion struggled on the final climb. Under attack and without teammates, he was visibly uncomfortable, rocking back and forth on the bike with his jersey fully unzipped. Whether it was the effort of responding to Jumbo’s aggression, the heat, the lack of teammates due to COVID, or his own as-yet unseen battle with the virus, Pogačar was in distress in a way that he has never been at the Tour or almost any other race. The next few days will tell us a lot about whether today was just a crack on a wickedly hard day, the start of a bigger fade, or rooted in some other cause.

Stage 10 Winner - Magnus Cort

A medium mountain stage that took a circuitous route past, but not over, some of the most feared climbs in the Alps, Stage 10 was always ripe for a breakaway. It took an hour for the move to get established, with repeated attacks, catches, and counterattacks. A first-hour average speed of 48.4 kilometers per hour decimated the field and briefly left yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar without many of his teammates around him.

The eventually successful breakaway had 25 riders from a whopping 18 of the 22 teams in the race. With such broad representation, the chase lacked enthusiasm and the gap grew to seven minutes, then nine after a brief on-road stop due to climate protesters blocking the race route. With Bora-Hansgrohe’s Lennard Kämna in the move, that put Pogačar’s yellow jersey up for grabs. On the final climb, the break splintered under the pressure of repeated attacks and counters. It briefly re-formed on the finishing ramp of the Megeve Altiport runway, where Cort’s bike throw got him the stage win by just centimeters, from BikeExchange-Jayco’s Nick Schultz.

Yellow jersey Pogačar had no real personal difficulty defending his race lead on the long but relatively gentle climb to the Megeve Altiport. But his grip on the top spot in the standings is looking a bit more tenuous. A second teammate, George Bennett, was forced out of the race with a positive COVID diagnosis, and a third, Rafal Majka, is reportedly positive but allowed to stay in the race for now because he has a low viral load. But UAE is already down to six riders, and if Majka—who has been Pogačar’s best teammate in the mountains—gets worse and has to drop out or even simply can't do his usual workload, that will put major pressure on the remaining riders in the team.

At the same time, challengers like Jumbo-Visma and Ineos Grenadiers are still at full strength. And Jumbo did a savvy move in the final kilometers to lift the pace just enough to ensure Pogačar kept yellow over Kämna. That forces UAE to continue defending the race lead. What’s more, Jumbo and Ineos each have two riders high on the overall standings, which presents a possible strategy of sending someone like Primož Roglič up the road to force Pogačar’s team to chase. If that effort isolates Pogačar, he is vulnerable to attacks that he will have to respond to personally. While the two-time defending champion has looked sharp and aggressive in the race’s first 10 days, it’s worth noting that his 39-second lead over his nearest real challenger, Jumbo’s Jonas Vingegaard, is far less than at this point in last year’s Tour, when he had a five-minute advantage.

Stage 9 Winner - Bob Jungels

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Four years ago, Jungels was a rising star in the sport. A talented time trialist, the 25-year-old had shown his abilities in everything from cobbled classics to the Ardennes, capped by his 2018 win of Liege-Bastogne-Liege, one of the most prestigious one-day races in the sport. But his career was instead sidetracked in a slow fade due to what was diagnosed in 2021 as iliac arterial endofibrosis, a narrowing of pelvic arteries that causes pain and power loss during hard exercise. Surgery forced him to miss last year’s Tour and the Olympics, but appears to have fixed the problem.

His stage win here—along with that LBL win the highlight of his career—is his first victory since 2019 outside Luxembourg’s national championships. It also salvages some of what has so far been a rough Tour for his Ag2r team, which has seen yellow jersey contender Ben O’Connor’s GC hopes go up in smoke the past few days with his own health issues, plus the COVID-forced withdrawal of Geoffrey Bouchard yesterday morning.

Five-time Tour de France winner Bernard Hinault, nicknamed “the Badger” for his tenacious, gritty racing style, has a motto for yellow jersey contenders: no gifts. It’s one that Pogačar appears to take to heart. On a day where the current race leader could have simply rolled across the line with his rivals, he was instead aggressive, punching out in the final few hundred meters even though no stage win or time bonuses were on the line.

Whether surprised or just exhausted after a hard week of racing, most of the rest of the diminished group of contenders didn’t immediately respond, save one rider: Jumbo-Visma’s Jonas Vingegaard, who is rapidly emerging as the lone candidate with any credible shot of denying Pogačar a third straight Tour victory. Vingegaard fought hard to claw back to Pogačar’s wheel at the finish line. The rest of the group conceded another three seconds to Pogačar’s steadily growing lead. One rider—Ineos Grenadiers’ Dani Martinez—fell out of contention entirely after being dropped on the final climb. He gave up 16 minutes and dropped 20 places on the overall classification. Another hopeful, Cofidis’ Guillaume Martin, was ruled out at the start with COVID-19, the third rider to be sidelined by the virus once the race started. Monday is a rest day in Morzine, where the race will test every rider. More forced withdrawals are likely.

Stage 8 Winner - Wout van Aert

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) remained the overall leader of the 2022 Tour de France after finishing third on Stage 8 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Thanks to the 4-second time bonus he earned with his third-place finish, Pogačar extended his lead on the Tour’s General Classification to 39 seconds over Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and 1:14 over Great Britain’s Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers). Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) outsprinted Australia’s Michael Matthews (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) to win the stage, his second victory in this year’s Tour.

At one point it looked as if Pogačar was about to take his third victory in a row, as the Slovenian covered every surge on the climb to the finish line, his team firmly in control of the race. In effect, his team’s efforts handed the race to van Aert by setting such a high pace that no one could accelerate away before the inevitable small group sprint. With one stage left before the Rest Day, Pogačar is firmly in control of the race, and with a longer, Category 1 climb to the finish line at the end of Stage 9, the 23-year-old could extend his lead some more.

Van Aert was the day’s biggest winner, as the Belgian essentially put the green jersey away with his second stage win. He now leads the Netherlands’ Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) by 75 points on the Tour’s Points Classification, and few chances for the sprinters remaining in this year’s Tour, should have little trouble defending the jersey all the way to Paris. The Belgian’s large lead also means that he can now focus his energy on supporting Vingegaard’s efforts to try and upset Pogačar at the top of the Tour’s General Classification, a tall order that will take a coordinated team effort to pull off.

Stage 7 Winner - Tadej Pogacar

The Tour’s first true summit finish always leads to a clarification on who’s got the legs and who doesn’t, and the steep gravel ramps of the Super Planche des Belles Filles held true to that rule. When Pogačar’s last teammate, Rafal Majka, swung off the front with just a kilometer to go, the opportunity was ripe for an attack on an isolated yellow jersey. Instead, it was Pogačar himself who jumped, quickly going clear with a handful of challengers including the Jumbo duo of Vingegaard and Primož Roglič and Ineos Grenadiers’ Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates.

As other riders—DSM’s Romain Bardet, David Gaudu of Groupama-FDJ, and Movistar’s Enric Mas—slipped off the front, it was Vingegaard who made the attack in the last 200 meters that finally overhauled lone breakaway survivor Lennard Kämna (Bora-Hansgrohe). Vingegaard briefly got a gap on Pogačar, but the two-time Tour winner dug deep and put in his own massive acceleration to come past Vingegaard just before the finish line. Roglič led the others across the line, 12 seconds behind.

Just as in 2021, it’s looking like a two-rider race for the overall, and it’s the same pair: Pogačar and Vingegaard. Roglič looked surprisingly strong for a guy who separated his shoulder two days ago, but Vingegaard has been the only rider in the peloton capable of even briefly challenging Pogačar the last year or so.

Pogačar, for his part, seems entirely capable of withstanding that challenge. While his team performed decently today, what’s been clear the first week of the Tour is that Pogačar is not only capable, but confident, riding on his own. His calculated aggression at the finish today speaks to a deep reserve of mental strength; briefly gapped, he could have told himself a few seconds weren't worth the effort. But in hauling Vingegaard back and going past him for the win, he sent an unmistakable message: there are no cracks here. Vingegaard is the only rider within a minute of Pogačar on overall time, and with Roglič well back in 13th place, almost three minutes down, if Jumbo wants to win the Tour it’s going to require Roglič to take a secondary role in service of the team that he normally leads.

Stage 6 Winner - Tadej Pogacar

Pogačar was always going to be the most-marked rider at the Tour, but he seemed entirely untroubled by that focus as he struck out for a stage win and the overall lead. A day-long breakaway by yellow jersey Wout van Aert was caught with 11km to go, but having the race leader out front meant the pace was infernally high: Pogačar’s average speed for the four-and-a-half hour stage was an astonishing 49.4kph: more than 5kph higher than the fastest expected time.

The fatigue from the pace showed in the final kilometers: a touch of wheels on a straight section of road just inside 10km to go brought down a handful of riders and caused a split in the pack that delayed Vlasov. Then, the two final climbs whittled the lead group to under 40 riders, then 30, and finally just 14. Surprisingly, it was Jumbo-Visma’s Primož Roglič—suffering a separated shoulder from a crash yesterday—who started the sprint, but Pogačar quickly countered and no one could match his speed. He’ll enter Friday’s seventh stage as overall leader by four seconds over EF Education First-Easypost's Neilson Powless, and a likely repeat stage winner.

Stage 5 Winner - Simon Clarke

Clarke missed the day’s breakaway but bridged across and held tough over 11 sectors of rough cobbled roads to take a photo-finish sprint victory over Taco van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty). The 35-year-old Australian has been a pro since 2006, with 11 seasons on the WorldTour. And he’s twice won stages of the Vuelta Espańa. But his improbable win here—he’s a climber, not a cobbled Classics specialist—is the jewel in his long career.

Van Aert managed to stay in yellow despite any number of challenges. An early crash left him looking uncharacteristically hesitant on the first sections of cobbles, well back in the pack. But when disaster befell his Jumbo-Visma team in the form of mechanicals and crashes, van Aert sprung into action, putting his formidable TT skills to work pacing teammate Jonas Vingegaard. As a result of his efforts, he managed to stay in yellow, but his lead shrank to 13 seconds.

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Two-time defending champion Tadej Pogačar (UAE-Team Emirates) looked as unruffled and at ease as one can be while bouncing over cobbled roads at 50 kilometers an hour. Pogačar was attentive and at the front all day, and usually had at least one or two teammates nearby. He had no crashes and no mechanicals of note. When Trek-Segafredo’s Jasper Stuyven struck out in late pursuit of the breakaway, it was Pogačar—and only Pogačar—who managed to match the pace. The pair never made the catch, but finished 14 seconds clear of the furious, van Aert-led chase. Although Pogačar drops one spot on GC to fourth, he put time into every one of his competitors. The Ineos Grenadiers trio of Geraint Thomas, Dani Martinez, and Adam Yates stemmed most of the damage, as did Bora’s Aleksandr Vlasov. All came home in the van Aert/Vingegaard group close behind Pogačar.

By contrast, Jumbo had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day saved only by van Aert’s heroic pulls. Co-leader Vingegaard had a panicked series of bike changes after a flat and looked to lose serious time until van Aert steadied the chase. Ultimately, he lost just 14 seconds and sits seventh overall, 21 seconds behind Pogaçar. Far less fortunate was teammate Primož Roglič, caught in a senseless crash on the pavement caused by an errant haybale in a roundabout. Roglič quickly dropped off the pace and, despite help from teammates, conceded over two minutes to Pogačar. He’s now way back in 44th overall. Ag2r’s Ben O’Connor had an even worse day, shipping almost three and a half minutes to Pogačar, while Bahrain-Victorious’ Jack Haig dropped out.

Stage 4 Winner - Wout van Aert

It had been a bittersweet overall lead until now for van Aert, who took the yellow jersey on time bonuses, but had finished second on three straight stages. The Belgian superstar left nothing to chance on Stage 4. After a relatively quiet stage, his Jumbo-Visma team laid down a blistering pace leading into the day’s final climb, the short and not-particularly steep Côte du Cap Blanc-Nez, at 10.8km to go. Van Aert's average speed over the final 20km was a time-trial like 52.2kph.

The pack seemed unprepared for such a strong, team-wide move, and a small group briefly went clear with van Aert, teammate Jonas Vingegaard, and Ineos Grenadiers’s Adam Yates. The bulk of the pack came back together shortly over the summit, but van Aert took advantage of the chaos to keep the tempo high, and the expert time-trialist quickly got a gap of almost 30 seconds on a demoralized, disorganized chase. By steadily accruing time bonuses, van Aert has stretched his lead out to 25 seconds over second place. And with the next two stages—Wednesday’s cobbled affair and Thursday’s punchy uphill finish in Longwy—suiting his talents, he could add to both his lead and career stage win totals.

Jumbo’s attack showed the team’s aggression and discipline, as the move was almost perfectly executed and caught not just van Aert's rival sprinters, but many GC hopefuls, by surprise. Although the race came back together before the finish, what was maybe most notable was that Vingegaard was part of the small first group over the climb, while teammate and co-leader Primož Roglič wasn’t.

Maybe Roglič (correctly) bet the race would come back together and it wasn’t a wise use of strength. But after he seemed slightly less fit on climbs than Vingegaard at June’s Criterium du Dauphiné, the fact that he wasn’t present at a crucial moment will do little to settle the debate about which rider is the team’s best shot at yellow. Elsewhere, Ineos was clearly the most watchful of the GC teams, with Yates, Geraint Thomas, and Dani Martinez attentive at the front. There’s a lot of race left in the Tour but we may look back on today’s events as a predictor of what was to come.

Stage 3 Winner - Dylan Groenewegen

Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) remained the new overall leader of the 2022 Tour de France after finishing second on Stage 3 in Sønderborg. The 27-year-old actually extended his lead by earning a 6-second time bonus on the finish line. The Netherland’s Dylan Groenewegen (Team BikeExchange-Jayco) won the stage, his first Tour stage win since 2019.

The Tour now takes a day off to travel back to France, with van Aert leading the Tour’s General Classification by 7 seconds over Belgium’s Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) and 14 seconds over Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates). The next three stages suit the Belgian’s talents, so there’s a good chance that he’ll hold the Tour’s yellow jersey for a few more days.

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A relatively peaceful stage was interrupted by a large crash with about 10km to-go, emphasizing how important it is to stay as close to the front as possible at the end of these early stages.

Luckily, most of the Tour’s GC contenders managed to avoid losing time, with the exception of Colombia’s Rigoberto Uran (EF Education-EasyPost), who was held up by a crash for the second day in row and this time was unable to rejoin the leaders. The 35-year-old lost 39 seconds by the finish, a tough blow to his chances of scoring a high finish in Paris.

Stage 2 Winner - Fabio Jakobsen

Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) is the new overall leader of the 2022 Tour de France. The 27-year-old finished on Stage 2 in Nyborg and earned a 6-second time bonus for his efforts, enough to take the yellow jersey from his compatriot Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl), who entered the day in yellow after winning Stage 1. Van Aert will start Sunday’s Stage 3 with a 1-second lead over Lampaert, and an 8-second lead over Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates).

But all was not lost for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl as Dutch sprinter Fabio Jakobsen won the stage. Riding his first Tour de France, the 25-year-old rewarded the faith his team displayed by bringing him to the Tour over Great Britain’s Mark Cavendish, who won four stages last year and remains one win away from becoming the winningest rider in Tour history. (He currently shares the honor with Belgian legend Eddy Merckx.)

A lot of bullets were dodged on Stage 2 as the strong winds that were expected to blow apart the race had little impact, most likely because the Great Belt Bridge was so wide that the peloton could spread itself across the road, offering shelter to everyone who needed it.

There were crashes, though. EF Education-EasyPost’s Rigoberto Urán went down just before the peloton turned onto the Great Belt Bridge, but thanks to a little help from his teammates, the Colombian was able to rejoin the peloton. Lampaert was brought down by a crash as well, but the peloton seemed to slow a bit, perhaps out of deference to the Belgian’s yellow crash.

A larger crash cut-off about two thirds of the peloton as it raced toward the finish line, but it happened inside the final 3km, which meant no one lost time on the Tour’s General Classification. That’s why Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), who finished the stage almost three minutes after Jakobsen, still sits third overall.

So in the end, while the yellow jersey changed hands, the race to win the Tour was unaffected. And considering how crazy the opening stages of the Tour de France can be, that’s a win for everyone.

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The 1st stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 13.2 km, starting and finishing in Copenhagen. One of two individual time trials in this year’s Tour, this stage will see the most powerful rider of the day claim the first yellow jersey of the Tour. Denmark is the 10th country to host the Grand Depart, and the most northerly in the race’s history.

STAGE 2 ROUTE

The 2nd stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 202.2 km. Riders will start in Roskilde, the former capital of Denmark, before facing a trio of Category 4 climbs and ending in Nyborg where one rider will earn the first polka dot jersey of the Tour.

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The 3rd stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 182 km and is the last of three days in Denmark before riders take a day off to travel to France. The stage begins in Vejle and will head south, passing through Kasper Asgreen’s hometown Kolding before finishing in a likely bunch sprint in Sonderborg about 20 miles from the German border.

STAGE 4 ROUTE

The 4th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 171.5 km and begins at Dunkirk, the northernmost point of France. This stage is the first of seven hilly stages and it includes six Category 4 climbs. As the weather conditions constantly change in northern France, wind could be a factor, particularly along the coastline in the final kilometers of the stage, and the riders will need to pay attention to avoid gaps in the peloton.

STAGE 5 ROUTE

The 5th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 153.7 km, starting at Lille Metropole and ending at Arenberg Porte du Hainaut. This stage features brutal sections of cobblestones, with the riders having to worry about punctured tires, and if it’s raining, slippery terrain.

STAGE 6 ROUTE

The 6th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 219.9 km, making it the longest stage of this year’s race. Beginning in Binche, the cyclists tackle the Cote de Pulventeux, a Category 3 climb only a half-mile long, but averaging 12.3% in gradient, followed by the uphill finish to the Cote des Religieuses.

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The 7th stage, the first mountain stage of the 2022 Tour de France, covers 176.3 km. This stage starts in Tomblaine while La Planche Des Belles Filles, the finish, features for the sixth time in 11 years.

STAGE 8 ROUTE

The 8th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 186.3 km and by the end of this day, the peloton will have visited its fourth country in eight stages. Week 2 of racing begins in Dole and finishes in the Swiss city of Lausanne. The hilly city located on the shores of Lake Geneva will favor the puncheurs (cyclists whose strength is short, steep climbs), with a Category 3 climb to the finish line in the “Olympic capital.”

STAGE 9 ROUTE

The 9th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 192.9 km and marks the final race day before the first of two designated “rest days.” The stage starts in Aigle and riders will tackle two Category 1 climbs in the second half of the stage – but this is the only mountain stage out of six this year without a summit finish.

STAGE 10 ROUTE

The 10th stage of the 2022 Tour de France follows the first rest day and covers 148.31 km. After a brief visit to Switzerland, the Tour returns to France where it will stay for the remainder of the race. Running alongside Lake Geneva and winding through a series of valleys, the route will give riders their first taste of the Alps, after two days in the Vosges mountains.

STAGE 11 ROUTE

The 11th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 151.7 km and is the first of two grueling mountain stages in the High Alps. After warming up on the Montvernier, the cyclists next cross the Telegraphe and Galibier and finish atop the Col du Granon, an 11.3 km (7 mi) climb with a steady, 9.2% avg. gradient that only flattens out in the final few hundred meters.

STAGE 12 ROUTE

The 12th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 165.1 km and takes place on Bastille Day, a French national holiday. This stage features nearly 41 miles of vertical terrain over three HC climbs: a second pass over the Col du Galibier, the highest point on the 2022 route; the Col de la Croix de Fer; and a final summit finish on the iconic Alpe d’Huez, with its 21 hairpin turns.”

STAGE 13 ROUTE

The 13th stage of the 2022 Tour de France is a 192.6 km flat stage between Le Bourg d’Oisans and Saint Etienne. This stage is one of the more relaxed ones on the Tour and should allow the peloton to bring back what breakaway might form and set up for a sprint to the finish.

STAGE 14 ROUTE

The 14th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 192.5 km from Saint-Etienne to Mende. With five categorized climbs, this hilly stage could turn the day into two separate races: one between the breakaway riders, and the second among the general classification favorites.

STAGE 15 ROUTE

The 15th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 202.5 km. The road from Rodez to Carcassonne is often hilly, and the ups and downs that lead to it can favor breakaways, but this year the route has been designed to suit the sprinters’ teams.

STAGE 16 ROUTE

The 16th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 178.5 km from Carcassone to Foix following the final rest day. This stage brings the riders to the foothills of the Pyrenees, and if history is an indicator, it’s a great opportunity for a successful breakaway. The GC (General Classification) contenders will likely want to save their legs for the more difficult climbs over the next two days, so teams without a top contender or sprinter might view this day as their last chance to earn a coveted stage win.

STAGE 17 ROUTE

The 17th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 129.7 km and is the first of two straight mountain stages, both with summit finishes. Four categorized Pyrenean climbs await the riders on this day, and the GC contenders who have lost time in the Alps may choose to attack and put pressure on the leader before the final climb to the Peyragudes airport.

STAGE 18 ROUTE

The 18th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 143.2 km and it marks the final mountain stage of the 2022 Tour. Three categorized climbs with steep pitches and two long descents over narrow, gravel roads remain.

STAGE 19 ROUTE

The 19th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 188.3 km from Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors. This flat route will favor the sprinters who survived the Pyrenees as they head into Stage 20’s decisive individual time trial.

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The 20th stage of the 2022 Tour de France covers 40.7 km of undulating terrain. This stage is the cyclists’ last chance to clinch a podium placement or better yet, a coveted jersey. But two short climbs in the final kilometers add to the drama, and riders can lose extra time if they haven’t managed their effort throughout.

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The 21st stage covers 115.6 km as the 2022 Tour de France comes to a close on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. While some will be happy just to finish the Tour, sprinters will look to claim a prestigious win in Paris. The stage, which has grown into a traditional victory parade for the GC leader heading into the final day, begins at La Defense Arena.

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Tour de France 2022: Tadej Pogacar powers into yellow with stage six victory – as it happened

The defending champion surged to win a sprint finish after previous leader Wout van Aert led a long breakaway in vain

• 7 Jul 2022 General classification after stage six
• 7 Jul 2022 Stage six result
• 7 Jul 2022 Tadej Pogacar wins the sixth stage and takes the yellow jersey
• 7 Jul 2022 Van Aert is caught and sits up
• 7 Jul 2022 Van Aert drops Simmons and goes it alone
• 7 Jul 2022 Van Aert takes the intermediate sprint
• 7 Jul 2022 Van Aert in three-man breakaway
• 7 Jul 2022 And away we go!
• 7 Jul 2022 Preamble

Here’s Jeremy Whittle’s report from Longwy.

Tadej Pogacar, the victor and overall leader, speaks.

Every time I win it is even better, the first two ours were so crazy, a lot of teams pulling in the peloton. I was thinking he would come to the finish. The team did an incredible job bringing me to the perfect position. It was not a pure sprint, it was hectic. I guess I had good legs. I am super happy to take the win, anything else is just a bonus.

General classification after stage six

• 1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) 20hrs 44mins 44secs
• 2. Neilson Powless (US/EF Education-EasyPost +4secs
• 3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo - Visma) +31secs
• 4. Adam Yates (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +39secs
• 5. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +40secs
• 6. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +46secs
• 7. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Bora-Hansgrohe) +52secs
• 8. Daniel Martinez (Col/Ineos Grenadiers) +1min
• 9. Romain Bardet (Fra/DSM) 1mins 1secs
• 10. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama/FDJ)

Stage six result

• 1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) 4hrs 27mins 13secs
• 2. Michael Matthews (Aus/BikeExchange - Jayco) Same time
• 3. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama - FDJ)
• 4. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers)
• 5. Nairo Quintana (Col/Arkea Samsic)
• 6. Dylan Teuns (Bel/Bahrain Victorious)
• 7. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma)
• 8. Daniel Martinez (Col/Ineos Grenadiers)
• 9. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Jumbo-Visma)
• 10. Romain Bardet (Fra/DSM)

Tom Pidcock, speaking to Eurosport: “Roglic went early and caught me by surprise, I think I was decent in the sprint but Pogacar was strongest in the sprint, fair play. Van Aert’s playing with our ball, isn’t he? Taking the piss, isn’t he?”

Did Le Tour’s GC race end here? Pogacar’s seventh stage win was one of his best, and showed that whatever the terrain, he will be around and about. And the mountains to come where he looks to have the legs to hold off anyone’s challenge.

At the end of the longest day , Tadej Pogacar, of course, is the victor. A day that will be recalled for the heroics of Wout van Aert, who controlled the field and led until the final 20km, was still won by a rider who seems impregnable in Le Tour.

🏆 🇸🇮 @TamauPogi wins in Longwy! 🏆🇸🇮 @TamauPogi intouchable à @Villedelongwy ! #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/tUNVJCXQ0K — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2022

Tadej Pogacar wins the sixth stage and takes the yellow jersey

With 700m to go, Pogacar is the second man in the field, led by Brandon McNulty, and off they go, Roglic has a dig, and Pogacar speeds away and is untouchable as he goes away, He’s on fire, and Neilson Powless will take yellow, or will it be Pogacar? The bonus seconds should see the defending champion do it.

1km to go: Tom Pidcock is one of the many riders with a chance. It will come down to a sprint after this climb. So many chances.

1.5km to go: Vuillermoz is going for broke in the final two km, and the chase group has thinned out. The hill will make or break him. It breaks him soon enough, as he is pulled back soon enough, and drops like a stone back into the pack, Nairo Quintana is in there.

3km: Vuillermoz burying himself to stay away, and Primoz Roglic, despite his shoulder problems, is still up there. Great ride from him to be involved.

4km to go: Vuillermoz begins the descent down to the finish, and that last climb, and a turn, and they make their way into Longwy. He’s staying away, and gets into a time trial position as he spins round a bend. Vlasov is still struggling to get back on.

5km to go: Pogacar is up there, and Neilson Powless is in virtual yellow as they make their way up the climb, the Côte de Pulventeux. Thomas looks strong, as they go to the steepest part of the climb. Alexis Vuillermoz of TotalEnergie has a digm and Pogacar goes after him as they summit. He looks back to see what damage he has done. Thomas and Ineos need to give chase.

8km to go: The suggestion is the Jumbo-Visma rider who went down was Sepp Kuss, but as soon as that’s discussed there’s another prang, in the middle of the small town they speed through. Is it Aleksandr Vlasov? It is, and Team Bora must try and get him back on. Plenty of peril out there, lots of road furniture.

10km to go: All to play for now, but Pogacar is sat pretty as the teams get into order in what is left of the peloton.

Van Aert is caught and sits up

11km to go: The crash has caused a split in the peloton, but still Van Aert has been caught, at last, and goes back down the field as soon as they catch up. The yellow jersey will be worn by someone else tonight. He’s gone completely, taking on fluids as he slows down.

12km to go: Van Aert still leads at the descent and looks back at the field as he speeds downhill. Oh dear, there’s been a crash out the side! Two from Jumbo-Visma have gone. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg of Lotto-Sudal was involved. We will await news of any serious casualties as they fly along, and towards another climb.

14km to go: Chris Goldsmith gets in touch: “Quinn Simmons may be a Trumper, but he gave my partner a push up one of the hills on the Harrogate World Championship course when she was doing the sportif before it started. She will be forever thankful! Van Aert is something unbelievable.”

15km to go: Van Aert grimaces as he continues to lead them up the hill. The back of the field sees Van der Poel, as expected, spat from the back. Magnus Cort has also gone. Pogacar is safe and sound up there. Van Aert takes the single climbing point on that Cat 4 climb.

16km to go: Even Van Aert may struggle to stay away, though the four successive climbs before the end will dictate whether he can or not. Should he get pulled back, it’s possible he ends the day not in yellow but in green as he leads the sprinters’ points. The first climb is the Côte de Montigny-sur-Chiers.

20km to go: At the front of the peloton, it’s a Brit trio of Tom Pidcock, Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates are prominent for the Ineos team, as Filippo Ganna, their foremost man in the pack for the last few km, drops off, having done his turn. Van Aert’s being whittled down to around 50 seconds.

25km to go: Van Aert sails on, the gap at 1’ 08” as he blasts on.

💛 @WoutvanAert has dropped @QuinnSimmons9 . It's now van Aert 🆚 the peloton 💛 @WoutvanAert a distancé @QuinnSimmons9 . Nous avons à présent un duel van Aert 🆚 le peloton. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/KQ0eLozHAO — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2022

Van Aert drops Simmons and goes it alone

28km to go: Quinn Simmons has gone, he was unable to take a turn off the front and Van Aert has decided to take it up and go it alone. The gap suddenly opens up once more. He looks in good form, ready to try and land the solo victory.

30km to go: The Meuse river is to their flank as the time gap starts to descend to not much more of a minute. Van Aert will surely jettison Simmons soon enough. The American is struggling to hold his wheel while the peloton has plenty of zips. Nils Politt, the German rider for Bora–Hansgrohe, drops off the back, having done a mighty turn up the front. It’s not been an easy day for the domestiques, pulling them along like an engine.

With an average speed of 49.9km/h in the first 180km, @QuinnSimmons9 and @WoutvanAert enjoyed a lead as high as 4'01'' (km 109) but the gap is now down to 1'10'' #TDFdata #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/RzRMcdptKX — letourdata (@letourdata) July 7, 2022

35km to go: Interesting suggestion from Matt Cast: “I think Van Aert is in the breakaway to save his team from having to do any work to keep the yellow jersey after their nightmare day yesterday. Either that or he was told that his team wouldn’t be working for him today and decided that his best chance of defending his jersey was to get out in front himself, the potential alternative being a strong group getting out and a peloton too fatigued to chase it.”

Nice to have someone with such strength in your team. Jumbo-Visma can count themselves lucky to have the use of such a superman.

40km to go: The gap starts dropping a tad, the tailwind benefitting the peloton. Fireworks ahead whatever happens. This could be a big day on GC before we even get to the proper hills. Simmons looks tired, while Van Aert doesn’t.

45km to go: But can Van Aert stay away? Fugslang’s ablutions seem to have energised his former compadres in the breakaway. Quinn Simmons, a former ski mountaineering, seems game enough, and happy to go blow for blow on the front.

Where have you heard the name Quinn Simmons before? Perhaps here. Per Cycling News in 2021.

Trek-Segafredo suspended Simmons following his response to a post on Twitter by a cycling journalist ahead of the US election last year between Donald Trump and current US President Joe Biden. The journalist asked supporters of Trump to stop following her on Twitter. Simmons responded by writing “bye”, followed by an emoji of a Black hand waving. When Simmons was referred to as a “Trumper” in a reply, he responded: “That’s right” with an emoji of an American flag.

50km to go: Despite those undulations, they continue to speed along, with under an hour of racing to go, and a tailwind behind them. The gap remains at just under two minutes but the peloton, Pogacar resplendent, are fully in control.

60km to go: And now the undulations begin on a stage that has already been ridden at a breakneck pace.

To quote the Cycling News Forum , a wealth of info on Le Tour’s stages, this is how it should play out.

By this time the route has started to turn away from the Meuse to stay close to the Belgian border, and the terrain slowly becomes more rugged again as we pass the citadel of Montmédy. The final 20 kilometres feature four hills, starting with the Côte de Montigny-sur-Chiers and the harder, but uncategorised Côte de Lexy. These are the climbs to thin out the bunch, but Côte de Pulventeux, just 5.3k from the line, should see attacks. The briefest of flats and a descent down two hairpins brings us to the bottom of the final climb, Côte des Religieuses. Located on the borders with Belgium and Luxembourg, Longwy was originally a small town that was built into a sizeable citadel by Vauban. It became the centre of the French steel industry in the 19th century, however after the plants shut down in the 1970s the town experienced a significant economic downturn and today it is mainly a commuter town for Luxembourg.

65km to go: Fugslang’s decided he wants no part in the breakaway, and he does so in unorthodox style, pulling up at the side of the road to, well, follow nature’s course. He and Van Aert had been in discussion, and that may have been part of it. With the gap dropping below two minutes, the dynamic duo at the front have no hope of staying away. Is Van Aert done for the day? Probably not.

Van Aert takes the intermediate sprint

Not much of a race though Van Aert didn’t look too chuffed with being chased by Simmons and Fuglsang. So, even if Van Aert doesn’t win the stage, he’s banked some valuable sprint points. And in the chase that follows, Philpsen edges Jakobsen, ducking at the line after overtaking Laporte.

💚 20 points for @WoutvanAert at the intermediate sprint. 💚 20 points de plus pour @WoutvanAert au sprint intermédiaire. #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/6O6hTDo7SS — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2022

It's 🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen who rounds off the sprint as first in the peloton! Derrière le trio de tête, 🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen règle le peloton au sprint intermédiaire ! #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/dYOVQuNBzy — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2022

75km to go: David Hindle, once more: “ The thing you must never forget is that a 3 week stage race can see many favourites forced out due to accidents or illness. So for Wout, you just never know. If he is leading and suddenly Pogacar and a few more retired, he may hang on and win it. He might well be able to hold off the second tier, if that’s all that is left to race against. It is very unpredictable and always worth keeping up, just in case. But actually, the peloton were brutal and very quickly organised today. Never let them properly get away and this breakaway is done with 20 km to go. Tom Pid is very well placed again for the stage!”

It does look as if Van Aert’s grand plan will not work today, but he will roll through the intermediate sprint to take the full points on offer for the green jersey, his stated aim this year. The word is the riders are 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Peter Sagan, at the back of the peloton, goes back for help, and probably won’t be competing for the minor sprinting points.

80km to go: The gap is at 2’ 47” and Van Aert and his two mates are taking on fluids to they got hold of in the feed zone.

90km to go: There’s a chase on, and the gap is lowering, with Pogacar’s group back in the peloton, and the gap at three minutes, the big teams all taking their turn.

95km to go: James Austin has a suggestion: “ if Wout could get a lead of 7 or 8 mins I suspect he may just be able to hold onto GC. But it’d need to be that level - while he won from the break on Ventoux riding with the elite group in the bunch day after day is a very different thing.”

Alex Kirsch, the Trek Segafredo rider on his first Tour, has abandoned.

❌ @alexkirsch92 abandons ❌ Abandon de @alexkirsch92 #TDF2022 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2022

100km: Pete Anon gets in touch: “And another question from someone who has just started road racing this year..

“My question is could Van Aert win the Tour outright? The bookies don’t give him much chance of the outright win...is this because Van Aert will be crushed in the mountains? If so is it possible that a rider like Van Aert could defy the bookies and perform in the mountains and win it outright? By extension is there precedent for a non favourite to take yellow in week 1 and keep yellow all the way to Paris?”

The suggestion from the experts is that he’s not got the physique for it, possessing too much muscle, that required for Classic and sprints, to haul himself up the great hills, though he has won on Mont Ventoux. Winning a Tour from the first week and holding on? I will throw that to the floor, but Laurent Fignon, in 1983, pulled off a shock win as a non-contender who came from the pack, but never led from the start. Geraint Thomas was a shock, too, but only because Chris Froome cracked in 2018. As I say, suggestions very welcome.

The gap is opening up, at 3’ 53” from the leading trio to the Pogacar group.

110km to go: Van Aert’s been the man of the first 100km, but he’s up against a young American on a mission in Quinn Simmons. Van Aert, is also on a new bike now, having changed at 111km to go, that dodgy derailleur forgotten as he chases his two mates in the breakaway. He soon catches them up.

The most active rider of stage 6? 💛 @WoutvanAert has been everywhere, following, making and breaking moves in the first 80km #TDFdata #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/AUc0YRb2KD — letourdata (@letourdata) July 7, 2022

Participating in his first @LeTour at 21 years old, @QuinnSimmons9 is on the hunt for stage 🏆 His move on stage 6 sees him lead the way to the first summit of the day... at a higher pace than the @Strava KOM held by @adria_moreno #TDFdata #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/ziJyUtK56J — letourdata (@letourdata) July 7, 2022

120km to go: David Hindle has had a rethink: “ I wrote the last email just before this break formed. If Van Aert has it in his head he can do this and given the quality of the other two, stage profile, wind etc., the winner is amongst them now. That’s the way races go. You could pull back a “normal” group of 3. But not one made of Van Aert, Simmons, Fuglsang. This isn’t any kind of “normal”. Very exciting though. Reminds me a bit of recent test cricket! In which case, would INEOS be the pre-bazball version of England?”

Van Aert is leading them down the descent, and flying along. The intrigue continues on what has been a highly exciting stage.

125km to go: Keith Pattinson emails in: “ A question from a non-expert. Are the breakaways planned by the teams before the start? Or are the riders given license to make the breaks on a temperamental basis?”

Answer: yes, mostly, and usually but events, dear boy. In fact, many attacks will be planned months in advance when the stages are announced. But, say, today, Van Der Poel will have pinpointed it, but has no legs. And certain riders just attack all the time, like Pierre Rolland, which is good for the sponsors to have their logo up the front.

The gap is 3’ 20” to Pogacar, almost five minutes to the peloton. Simmons and Fulgslang are chatting away quite merrily with Van Aert, who seems unruffled by his bike problems, because, well, he is Van Aert.

Van Aert in three-man breakaway

132km to go: Hang on! Van Aert, at the foot of this first climb, of around 2km, the Cote dez Mazures, suddenly suffers a problem. He has to get off his bike, and then is given a hand to fix his gears derailleur.. He’s 20 seconds down on Simmons and Fuglsang, but then makes it to the back of them. They realised they needed his strength to stay away up this hill. The peloton meanwhile doesn’t seem to bothered about giving chase. Simmons leads them over the first third-category climb of Le Tour. The lead of opened to around 2’ 13”.

135km to go: David Hindle has a prediction to make: “ Pidcock should really fancy this stage. A lot of people completely focused on Van Aert, and understandable why. But Tom Pid has bested him in a classic despite coming “second”, before ( actually that was an interesting story ). And for the Olympic mountain bike champion, that kind of explosive, uphill finish is made to measure. So Tom Pid to beat Van Aert by slightly more than 1/1000th of a second.”

They may need to chase down what has become a larger gap. Jakob Fuglsang and Quinn Simmons are on his tail.

140km to go: And Wout van Aert is in the breakaway, it’s very windy, and they are being blown all over the place. This one may actually stay away, and those at the back of the peloton are suffering, Hirschi and Bennett continuing to suffer off the back.

150km to go: As predicted, the breakaway didn’t last. So back we go, looking for one to hold. It might be a while.

160km to go: This breakaway looks to be failing, too, falling to Van Aert’s bidding, Pogacar sat well, of course. Van der Poel and Michael Mørkøv are sat out the back of the peloton, as are George Bennett and Marc Hirschi, two of Pog’s key domestiques. This is a hard day to follow a hard day.

165km to go: Sagan and Van Aert up the front as the peloton chases what is not much of a breakaway, with Magnus Cort, the hero of Le Tour’s weekend in Denmark, in a group of nine. Mads Pedersen, Christophe Laporte and Simon Geschke are all involved in that, but it won’t be lasting too long if Van Aert continues to pull the chasing pack on his back. Once he drops back in the pack, it goes to 20 seconds of a gap. The speed is ludicrous, and it’s no place for hiding.

175km to go: The breakaway is on, but this time it includes GC contenders, Pogacar, Pidcock, Thomas, Van Aert, Adam Yates and Jonas Vingegaard. There’s a split in the pack that looks as if it has the manpower to escape but then it’s pulled back together, as they ride over some sweeping hills, plenty of bends. This is relentless so far. No chance of a rest before they join the mountain stages tomorrow.

180km to go: Wellens and Jansen get pulled back into the pack and the leading trio don’t survive much longer, as Van Aert leads the chase, then eases off as Wellens has another go off the front as Cosnefoy, Van der Hoorn and Skujins come into view. Van Aert is up there, of course, as is Pogacar, with Geraint Thomas attempting to stay in touch. Then Van Aert goes off on another dig. There’s a wind, and he’s trying to use it to split the pack. He has repeated digs.

190 km to go: Tim Wellens of Lotto-Soudal is chasing down the three breakaways, and Amund Grøndahl Jansen of Bike Exchange has joined the chase, the peloton continuing to loom behind him, that man Van Aert piling it on, taking it up. They are a minute behind the trio at the front, and then 49 seconds behind Wellens, who has joined forces with Jansen.

200 km to go: Pogacar is at the back of a split in the field, with Van Aert suddenly at the fore of a leading group that is peeling away in the style of a Classic race. The race is kicking off already. Incredible, after what happened yesterday. They eventually come back together, though finally someone manages to get away, three riders take ten seconds off the front, a fourth trying to join them. The three that have gone away are Benoit Cosnefoy, Taco van der Hoorn and Toms Skujins, but there’s a group including Van Aert and Sagan who are chasing them down. There’s 35 riders off the front in total, and the rest must chase all day.

210km to go: Still they attempt to stage breakaways, with Wout van Aert to the fore but Matthieu van der Poel, as said previously, not looking too handy. He’s off the back of the peloton already. Burgaudeau’s shorts meanwhile are cut to ribbons. Pogacar is handy, too. They have to alert already, and they are speeding along, stragglers being spat out the back.

217 km to go: An early faller, and there’s a few of them forced off the side of the road. Just one goes down fully, and that’s, Mathieu Burgaudeau of TotalEnergies, who eventually gets fixed up, and speeds back to the pack. He looks only a little bashed up.

And away we go!

Christian Prudhomme waves them along on the longest ride of Le Tour, and off go a couple of riders in an early breakaway. Action right from the start, with Alexis Vuillermoz of TotalEnergies leading out a huge break that doesn’t last very long. Too many teams getting away quickly for that to survive.

The cobbles claimed a few victims, including the key lieutenant to Peter Sagan.

“Additional examinations revealed a fracture of a cervical vertebra requiring immobilization for a few weeks. Daniel Oss is therefore forced to leave the Tour de France… The whole team wishes you a good recovery Daniel.”

Oss crashed into a spectator on the cobbles and actually finished the stage.

The other two forced to abandon were Michael Gogl (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Jack Haig, of Bahrain Victorious, who abandoned last year, too

Les examens complémentaires ont mis en évidence une fracture d’une vertèbre cervicale nécessitant une immobilisation pour quelques semaines. Daniel Oss est donc contraint de quitter le Tour de France… 😢 Toute l’équipe te souhaite un bon rétablissement Daniel ❤️ pic.twitter.com/jGh0D2HOo7 — Team TotalEnergies (@TeamTotalEnrg) July 6, 2022

We’re not far from the start of the race proper in Binche, and the riders are making their way through the streets to the départ reel, as they take part in the départ fictif.

✍️ The signature podium is almost finished here in 🇧🇪Binche, it's nearly time to race 🏁 ✍️Le podium signature est terminé à 🇧🇪Binche, c'est bientôt l'heure du départ ! 🏁 #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/YFyPUyfW8C — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 7, 2022

Here’s a couple of takes on Wednesday’s events on the cobbles.

With Jumbo-Visma’s leader Primoz Roglic spreadeagled on the road, the Slovenian double Tour winner made hay after his compatriot had been taken down by a roadside bale, designed to steer the riders safely through a roundabout. Even the seemingly super-powered Wout van Aert, winner of stage four, crashed, and was called on to try and help his embattled team leaders, Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard, recover lost ground. Van Aert’s efforts were enough to pull Vingegaard back to the front, but not Roglic, who lost more than two minutes to the UAE Emirates rider. “Just a shit day,” Van Aert said succinctly, even though he did enough to hang on to the race leader’s yellow jersey.

It was an amazing result for Clarke, who wondered if he had reached the end of his career last winter when he was left without a team. “To have Israel ring me up and say, ‘We’ll give you that chance,’ just gives you such a reality check to make the most of every opportunity,” said Clarke. “All year this season, I’ve come out in every race swinging. “I still can’t believe I got it on the line there. Taco was well ahead of me with less than 50 metres to go. I was cramping in both legs and I just lined up the biggest throw I could possibly do and I just prayed it was enough. “I need to watch the replay, I still don’t quite believe it! “I moved to Europe when I was 16 – and I turn 36 on the second rest day [18 July]. That’s 20 years in Europe and the dream finally came true!”

The Tour is the Tour , as we found on Wednesday on the cobbles, though what that usually means is that Tadej Pogacar survives when all others fall apart. That’s what happened yesterday, as Wout van Aert tried his best to save his team leaders and buried himself even if he did stay in yellow, though disaster befell Primoz Roglic as he dislocated and then reset his own shoulder. Such is life on the cobbles, and to follow up, we have the longest stage of the Tour. The riders must be delighted to follow on from the carnage of Wednesday. They will be speeding along all day, and then a nasty climb not far from the flamme rouge.

Per William Fotheringham:

The longest stage of the race has a twist in the tail: the Côte de Pulventeux comes 6km from the finish, and is 800m at 12%, so steep enough to split the field before the finish up the longer, draggier, Côte des Religieuses. It is a finish made for any of the overall contenders, but all eyes will be on Van der Poel with Julian Alaphilippe absent .

Van der Poel didn’t look in such good nick yesterday, so that opens up the contenders.

GC after stage five

1) Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma): 16 hr 17’ 22” 2) Neilson Powless (EF Education-Easypost) +13” 3) Edvald Boasson Hagen (TotalEnergies) +14” 4) Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) +19” 5) Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) +25” 6) Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) +36” 7) Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) 8) Adam Yates (Ineos) +48” 9) Tom Pidcock (Ineos) +49” 10) Geraint Thomas (Ineos) +50”

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Tour de France 2022 standings: results (general classification)

The 2022 Tour de France was the 109th in history and took place between July 1 and July 24 . It started in Copenhagen, Denmark, and ended in Paris, France. This race is one of the most prestigious in the world and is considered one of the “Grand Tours” alongside the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España.

The winner of this edition was Danish cyclist Jonas Vingegaard , who rode for the Jumbo-Visma team. He beat the previous champion, Slovenian Tadej Pogačar , who finished second. British cyclist Geraint Thomas came in third.

The Tour de France features a mix of stages over three weeks, including mountainous, time trial, and flat stages. The overall winner is the cyclist with the shortest combined time after all stages. It’s a highly anticipated and exciting event in the world of cycling.

YELLOW JERSEY, GREEN JERSEY, WHITE JERSEY and POLKA-DOT JERSEY

• Overall Winner (Yellow Jersey): The overall winner of the Tour de France 2022 was Jonas Vingegaard from Denmark, representing the Jumbo-Visma team.
• Points Classification (Green Jersey): The winner of the Points Classification and the green jersey was Wout van Aert from Belgium, who was part of the Jumbo-Visma team. This classification is based on the accumulation of points from stage finishes and intermediate sprints.
• King of the Mountains Classification (Polka Dot Jersey): The polka dot jersey, awarded to the best climber and winner of the King of the Mountains Classification, went to Jonas Vingegaard, the overall winner of the race.
• Best Young Rider (White Jersey): Tadej Pogačar, who finished second in the general classification, also secured the White Jersey, signifying the best-placed rider under the age of 25.

GENERAL RANKING – TOUR DE FRANCE 2022:

The most coveted prize in the Tour de France is the yellow jersey, also known as the “maillot jaune.” The overall winner is determined based on the cumulative time taken by each rider to complete all the stages. The rider with the lowest total time wears the yellow jersey and is declared the overall winner of the Tour de France.

1º Jonas Vingegaard ( Yellow Jersey – General Classification, Red Polka Dot Jersey – Mountains Classification) – DEN, Denmark, Team : Jumbo-Visma, Time : 79 hours 33 minutes 20 seconds;

2º Tadej Pogačar ( White Jersey ) – SLO, Slovenia, Team : UAE Team Emirates, Gap : +2 minutes 43 seconds;

3º Geraint Thomas – GBR, United Kingdom, Team : Ineos Grenadiers, Gap : +7 minutes 22 seconds;

4º David Gaudu – FRA, France, Team : Groupama-FDJ, Gap : +13 minutes 39 seconds;

5º Aleksandr Vlasov – RUS, Russia, Team : Bora-Hansgrohe, Gap : +15 minutes 46 seconds;

6º Nairo Quintana – COL, Colombia, Team : Arkéa-Samsic ( Disqualified );

7º Romain Bardet – FRA, France, Team : Team DSM, Gap : +18 minutes 11 seconds;

8º Louis Meintjes – RSA, South Africa, Team : Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux, Gap : +18 minutes 44 seconds;

9º Alexey Lutsenko – KAZ, Kazakhstan, Team : Astana Qazaqstan Team, Gap : +22 minutes 56 seconds;

10º Adam Yates – GBR, United Kingdom, Team : Ineos Grenadiers, Gap : +24 minutes 52 seconds;

11º Valentin Madouas – FRA, France, Team : Groupama-FDJ, Gap : +35 minutes 59 seconds;

12º Bob Jungels – LUX, Luxembourg, Team : AG2R Citroën Team, Gap : +45 minutes 23 seconds;

13º Neilson Powless – USA, United States, Team : EF Education-EasyPost, Gap : +46 minutes 57 seconds;

14º Luis León Sánchez – ESP, Spain, Team : Bahrain Victorious, Gap : +49 minutes 18 seconds;

15º Thibaut Pinot – FRA, France, Team : Groupama-FDJ, Gap : +50 minutes 25 seconds;

16º Patrick Konrad – AUT, Austria, Team : Bora-Hansgrohe, Gap : +56 minutes 54 seconds;

17º Thomas Pidcock – GBR, United Kingdom, Team : Ineos Grenadiers, Gap : +1 hour 1 minute 15 seconds;

18º Sepp Kuss – USA, United States, Team : Jumbo-Visma, Gap : +1 hour 2 minutes 29 seconds;

19º Dylan Teuns – BEL, Belgium, Team : Bahrain Victorious, Gap : +1 hour 11 minutes 30 seconds;

20º Brandon McNulty – USA, United States, Team : UAE Team Emirates, Gap : +1 hour 31 minutes 19 seconds;

21º Matteo Jorgenson – USA, United States, Team : Movistar Team, Gap : +1 hour 33 minutes 57 seconds;

22º Wout van Aert ( Green Jersey – Points Classification, Red Bib – Combative Rider) – BEL, Belgium, Team : Jumbo-Visma, Gap : +1 hour 35 minutes 55 seconds;

23º Nick Schultz – AUS, Australia, Team : BikeExchange-Jayco, Gap : +1 hour 39 minutes 41 seconds;

24º Hugo Houle – CAN, Canada, Team : Israel-Premier Tech, Gap : +1 hour 42 minutes 14 seconds;

25º Bauke Mollema – NED, Netherlands, Team : Lidl – Trek, Gap : +1 hour 45 minutes 57 seconds.

STAGE WINNER:

The Tour de France consists of multiple stages, each with its own winner. These stages can vary in type, including flat stages, hilly stages, mountain stages, time trials, and more. The winner of each stage is the rider who crosses the finish line first in that specific stage. Stage winners are awarded various jerseys, such as the Green Jersey for the Points Classification and the Polka Dot Jersey for the King of the Mountains Classification .

• July 1 – 13.2 km (8.2 miles) – Copenhagen to Copenhagen (Individual Time-Trial) – Winner: Yves Lampaert
• July 2 – 202.5 km (125.8 miles) – Roskilde to Nyborg – Winner: Fabio Jakobsen
• July 3 – 182 km (113.1 miles) – Vejle to Sonderborg – Winner: Dylan Groenewegen
• July 5 – 171.5 km (106.6 miles) – Dunkerque to Calais – Winner: Wout van Aert
• July 6 – 157 km (97.6 miles) – Lille Metropole to Arenberge Porte du Hainaut – Winner: Simon Clarke
• July 7 – 220 km (136.7 miles) – Binche to Longwy – Winner: Tadej Pogacar
• July 8 – 176.5 km (109.7 miles) – Tomblaine to La Super Planche des Belles Filles – Winner: Tadej Pogacar
• July 9 – 186.5 km (115.9 miles) – Dole to Lausanne – Winner: Wout van Aert
• July 10 – 193 km (119.9 miles) – Aigle to Chatel Les Portes du Soleil – Winner: Bob Jungels
• July 12 – 148.5 km (92.3 miles) – Morzine Les Portes du Soleil to Megeve – Winner: Magnus Cort Nielsen
• July 13 – 152 km (94.4 miles) – Albertville to Col du Granon Serre Chevalier – Winner: Jonas Vingegaard
• July 14 – 165.5 km (102.8 miles) – Briancon to Alpe D’Huez – Winner: Tom Pidcock
• July 15 – 193 km (119.9 miles) – Le Bourg D’Oisanas to Saint-Etienne – Winner: Mads Pedersen
• July 16 – 192.5 km (119.6 miles) – Saint-Etienne to Mende – Winner: Michael Matthews
• July 17 – 202.5 km (125.8 miles) – Rodez to Carcassonne – Winner: Jasper Philipsen
• July 19 – 178.5 km (110.9 miles) – Carcassonne to Foix – Winner: Hugo Houle
• July 20 – 130 km (80.8 miles) – Saint-Gaudens to Peyragudes – Winner: Tadej Pogacar
• July 21 – 143.5 km (89.2 miles) – Lourdes to Hautacam – Winner: Jonas Vingegaard
• July 22 – 188.5 km (117.1 miles) – Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors – Winner: Christophe Laporte
• July 23 – 40.7 km (25.3 miles) – Lacapelle-Marival to Rocamadour – Winner: Wout van Aert
• July 24 – 116 km (72.1 miles) – Paris La Defense Arena to Paris Champs-Elysees – Winner: Jasper Philipsen

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Two previous winners are the leading contenders to win cycling’s most famous race, which, in a rarity, does not end in Paris.

By Victor Mather

For three weeks starting Saturday, the world’s best cyclists will do battle in the Tour de France, racing through valleys, hills and high mountains. Though 176 riders will start, most eyes will be on a pair of two-time winners who seek title No. 3.

After more than 2,000 miles and dozens of punishing climbs, will the winner be Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark, who took the last two Tours de France but was hurt in a crash this year? Or Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia, the 2020 and 2021 winner ? Or will an unexpected contender jump up and surprise them?

And, wait: Is it really the Tour de France if the race doesn’t finish on the Champs-Élysées? Here’s a primer to read before the race gets underway.

Where will they race?

For the first time, the race will start in Italy , with the opening stage beginning in Florence and winding through the Apennine Mountains to Rimini, a city on the Adriatic coast. It will be more difficult than most opening stages, with several uphill climbs.

After a few days in Italy, the race will enter France, then go counterclockwise around the country, passing through the Alps, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees and then the Alps again.

Who are the favorites?

Vingegaard won last year’s event by an emphatic seven and a half minutes. But after a good start to the 2024 cycling season, he crashed badly in the Tour of the Basque Country in April and spent 12 days in the hospital with a broken collarbone. He is expected to ride in the Tour de France, but there is uncertainty as to what kind of shape he will be in.

As a result, Pogacar, who has been in fine form, is the favorite to win and regain his crown.

Pogacar rode in the Giro d’Italia, or Tour of Italy, in May. Unlike riders in that race who hold back to preserve their strength for the Tour de France, he gave it his all, winning by almost 10 minutes. If Pogacar claims the Tour as well, he will be the first cyclist since Marco Pantani, in 1998, to win the Giro and the Tour in the same season.

After the big two, other possible contenders include Primoz Roglic of Slovenia, the 2023 Giro winner, and Remco Evenepoel of Belgium, who won the 2022 Tour of Spain.

Though an individual wins the Tour, his team can help a lot, pacing him in the mountains and blocking attacks from rivals. Last year’s leading team, Jumbo-Visma (now Visma–Lease a Bike) has broken up; Vingegaard is still its leader, but Roglic left to join Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe. UAE Team Emirates will support Pogacar with a squad that includes Adam Yates of Britain, a rider with the talent to win the Tour himself; he placed third last year.

Tell me the days that really matter.

The first stage to focus on is July 2, when the riders travel from Italy to France. It includes a climb up the Galibier, one of the Tour’s toughest mountains, and one that still has snow on the side of the roads.

In the midst of a week of flat stages that won’t change the leaderboard much, there is a time trial on July 5 in Burgundy wine country. The riders will race alone against the clock, with no help from teammates, which is why a time trial is known as “the race of truth.”

The real action comes at the end, with five mountain stages. The July 13 stage is particularly notable; it includes a climb up the Tourmalet in the Pyrenees and ends with an uphill — or more accurately, up-mountain — finish that is sure to winnow out any pretenders. Also make note of July 14, 17, 19 and 20 as four more brutal mountain stages where the Tour is likely to be won, or lost.

But even the flat stages, which are usually won by sprinters and seldom affect the overall standings, may have some extra interest this year. The great sprinter Mark Cavendish, 39, has 34 career stage victories and needs one more to break the record he shares with Eddy Merckx, the dominant rider of the 1960s and ’70s.

What’s different this year?

The day after that last mountain stage, the race will end, but not with the traditional ceremonial cruise down the Champs-Élysées in Paris. Instead, the field will hold a time trial to finish the Tour for the first time since 1989. If the race is close, the winner could be decided on that final day, as it was in 1989. That year, the American Greg LeMond snatched the Tour from Laurent Fignon of France in a time trial by a mere eight seconds, still the closest margin in history.

To avoid the Paris Olympics, which open five days later, the time trial will run from Monaco to Nice. It is the first time since 1974 the race has not ended on the Champs-Élysées and the first time ever it has not ended in Paris or its environs.

Remind me what the jerseys mean.

In each stage, whoever is the overall leader wears the yellow jersey to make him easier to spot for TV viewers and the thousands of fans along the route.

But there are other jerseys, too. Finishing near the front in individual stages, especially flat ones, earns points toward the green jersey for best sprinter. Last year’s winner of this jersey was Jasper Philipsen.

The first riders to reach the top of the race’s many mountains earn points toward the garish polka-dot jersey for best climber. The top contenders for yellow are also favored to win this jersey, as is Giulio Ciccone of Italy, who won last year.

Are there any Americans racing?

The days of American favorites like LeMond and Lance Armstrong are over for the time being. Moreover, Sepp Kuss, the American who won the 2023 Tour of Spain, is out because of a Covid-19 infection.

Matteo Jorgenson, 24, on the Visma team, is the top-ranked American. He won this year’s weeklong Paris-Nice race, and some think he can contend for the tour’s title in the future, or maybe, if all goes well, this year.

How can I watch?

Stages generally start around 6 or 7 a.m. Eastern time and last four to five hours. In the United States, Peacock will stream every stage live. Some stages will be shown on NBC and USA as well.

Other broadcasters include ITV and Eurosport (United Kingdom), SBS (Australia), FloBikes (Canada), France Televisions (France), ARD (Germany) and J Sports (Japan).

Victor Mather , who has been a reporter and editor at The Times for 25 years, covers sports and breaking news. More about Victor Mather

2024 Tour de France: How to watch, schedule, odds for cycling's top race

The biggest cycling event of the year - the 111th Tour de France -- kicks off Saturday from Florence, Italy. The 2024 Tour de France's unusual route starts in Italy for the first time ever to honor 100 years since the first Italian victory in the Tour by Ottavio Bottecchia in 1924. Also, due to the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Tour de France will not finish in Paris for the first time in event history.

The 21 stages will cover more than 2,000 miles from Saturday through July 21. Two-time defending winner Jonas Vingegaard looks to become just the ninth cyclist to win at least three Tour de France races. Last year's runner-up, Tadej Pogačar, is looking to do the same. He won in 2020 and 2021 before finishing second to Vingegaard in 2022 and 2023.

Here's what you need to know about this year's race:

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France

NBC Sports will broadcast the 2024 Tour de France in the U.S. All stages will be available via streaming on Peacock and fuboTV with three stages - 8, 14, and 20 - broadcast on NBC as well.

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2024 Tour de France stage schedule, distance, characteristics

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2024 Tour de France odds

Pogačar holds a slight edge as the favorite for victory in the 2024 Tour de France, per BetMGM's latest cycling odds . Here's how the field looks:

Odds as of Tuesday afternoon.

• Tadej Pogačar (-165)
• Jonas Vingegaard (+200)
• Primož Roglič (+800)
• Remco Evenepoel (+1400)
• Juan Ayuso (+3300)
• Carlos Rodríguez (+3300)
• Adam Yates (+3300)
• João Almeida (+3300)
• Matteo Jorgenson (+3300)
• Egan Bernal (+6600)
• Simon Yates (+6600)
• Enric Mas (+10000)
• Tom Pidcock (+10000)
• Felix Gall (+10000)
• Richard Carapaz (+10000)
• Mikel Landa (+10000)
• Geraint Thomas (+10000)
• David Gaudu (+30000)
• Oscar Onley (+30000)
• Wout van Aert (+30000)
• Romain Bardet (+50000)
• Giulio Ciccone (+50000)
• Mathieu van der Poel (+100000)
• Mark Cavendish (+500000)

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Tadej Pogacar secures dramatic stage 7 win to increase overall lead at Tour de France 2022

The two-time defending champ took the 176.5km stage from Tomblaine to La Super Planche de Belles Filles, after the first mountain showdown in this year's Le Tour. 

Two-time defending Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar has done it again.

Just 24 hours after taking the sixth stage and securing the yellow jersey , the Slovenian rider of UAE Team Emirates won the seventh stage of road cycling 's 2022 Tour as well and increased his overall lead.

Pogacar produced an unstoppable assault on the final meters of the 176.5km stage from Tomblaine to La Super Planche de Belles Filles on Friday (8 July) edging out his main rival Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) in a sprint finish.

The two stars broke the heart of breakaway rider Lennard Kamna in sight of the finish line. The German was the last rider of an 11-man breakaway group.

Pogacar now leads Vingegaard in the overall standings by 35 seconds, with Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) in third at 1:10 behind.

"It was really really difficult, especially in the end. My boys were working well today and I really had to push to the finish line," said Pogacar. "A very special day today as we opened a foundation for cancer research today. It was a big win today."

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

2022 Tour de France: Stage 7 results - Friday, 8 July

• Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 4:27:13
• Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +0:00
• Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) +0:12
• Lennard Kamna (Bora-Hansgrohe) 0:14
• Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) +0:14

2022 Tour de France: General classification standings after stage 7 on Friday, 8 July

• Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 24:43:14
• Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +0:35
• Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) +1:10
• Adam Yates (Ineos Grenadiers) + 1:14
• David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) +1:31

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wed 6 July: Stage 5 – Lille Metropole-Arenburg Porte du Hainaut (157 km) - Won by Simon Clarke (Australia), Wout van Aert (Belgium) retained overall race lead.

Thu 7 July: Stage 6 – Binche-Longwy (220km) - Won by Tadej Pogaca r (Slovenia), who took the overall race lead.

Fri 8 July: Stage 7 – Tomblaine-La Super Planche de Belles Filles (176.5 km) - Won by Tadej Pogaca r (Slovenia), who increased his overall lead

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

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

Monday 11 July: Rest Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday 18 July: Rest Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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