Good afternoon and welcome to this live blog! My name is Jeroen van Barneveld and I will keep you informed of the tenth stage of the Tour de France, in which the riders first look up the mountains. Have fun!
Another 126 km – In the peloton, the German hard driver Nils Politt has been running for a while for his leader Tadej Pogacar. The geltrobrager has five other helpers left: Jhonatan Narváez, Tim Wellens, Adam Yates, Marc Soler and Pavel Sivakov. The latter returned to the peloton, after he still had to release on the first climb. The backlog on the leading group is 1 minute and 50 seconds.
Another 128 km – In the eyes of the Australians Ben O’Connor (Team Jayco Alula) and Harry Sweeny (EF Education -Easypost) are not hard enough and so they drive away from the leading group for a while. There is no question of a smooth collaboration in the front.
Another 134 km – Pablo Castrillo joins the leading group with the help of his Spanish teammate Iván Romeo, which now consists of no fewer than 29 riders. Ze zijn verdeeld over de volgende ploegen: EF Education-EasyPost (4), Team Jayco AlUla (3), Israel-Premier Tech (3), Visma-Lease a Bike (2), Soudal Quick-Step (2), Tudor (2), Movistar (2), Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (2), XDS Astana Team (2), Bahrain Victorious (1), Ineos Grenadiers (1), Lidl-Trek (1), Groupama-FDJ (1), Arkéa-B & B Hotels (1), TotalEnergies team (1) and UNO-X Mobility (1).
Another 135 km – Criminal work for Pablo Castrillo from Movistar. He must also be in the leading group from the team management and bridge a difference of 1 minute. Does he succeed in that? Or will it be a Chasse Patate?
Another 139 km – A disappointment for the Dutch followers: Frank van den Broek cannot follow the pace in the leading group and drops out. The leading group now consists of 28 riders, of whom Thymen Arensman is the only Dutchman.
The Dutch Visma-Lease a bike of leader Jonas Vingegaard has two riders ahead: Simon Yates and Victor Campenaerts. Tadej Pogacar has not sent helpers ahead and lets his UAE servants ride the peloton.
Still 143 km – and there is the next dropout in this Tour de France and that is not a small name: Søren Waerenskjold. The Noor, who won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad earlier this year, fell yesterday and now squeezes the brakes. After Jasper Philipsen and Marijn van den Berg, another cross is about the name of a sprinter.
Still 144 km – Visma Lease -a Bike has its affairs in order, because Simon Yates joins the front runners together with seven other riders. The leading group now consists of 28 riders. Julian Alaphilippe and Michael Storer are also driving at the front.
It is almost impossible to keep track of all those attacks in the opening phase of this ride in this Tour de France. All the necessary spectacle was expected in advance and that comes out completely. It is, again, a very fast start to this ride.
Another 150 km -for the administration, these are the twenty names in the leading group: Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease A Bike), Valentin Paret-Pintre (Soudal-Quick Step), Ben Healy, Neilson Powless and Harry Sweeny (Ef Education-EasyPost), Thyinezman, Thymenman,,, Areninezman,, (Ineos Grenadiers), Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ), Ben O’Connor and Luke Plapp (Jayco-Alula), Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B & B Hotels), Bruno Armirail, Laaria, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien, Aurélien. (XDS-Astana), Steff Cras (TotaalEnergies), Michael Woods, Joe Blackmore and Alexey Lutsenko (Israel Prime Minister Tech) and Frank van den Broek (Team Picnic PostNL).
152 km – Luke Plapp from Team Jayco Alula joins the leading group, so that twenty riders are now driving in the front. The question is for how long. The peloton does not yet provide free -guidance. The gap is only 20 seconds.
153 km – Lenny Martinez is the first to come on top of the Côte de Loubeyrat and takes five points for the mountain classification. He now has seven mountain points, one point less than Tim Wellens, the wearer of the ball jersey. The Frenchman Bruno Armirail is second behind Martinez.
Another 154 km – it’s ball in the peloton. Now that a group with no fewer than nineteen riders seems to be getting the space, the teams without leaders are still trying to make the crossing. The differences are small.
Another 155 km – A disappointment for Gaitrijdrager Tadej Pogacar: Pavel Sivakov, an important helper in the high mountains, must already release from the peloton. That will raise the morality of Visma-Lease a Bike.
Another 156 km – A large leading group seems to be going to form, with Thymen Arensman and Frank van den Broek. The Dutch had already announced that he would mix in the flight of the day. They have a hole of 12 seconds for the time being.
Another 156 km – The door behind the peloton is wide open. Groenetruidrager Jonathan Milan has already hoisted the white flag, just like Thibau Nys. The latter is normally a jumping spring, but he has said several times that he is not feeling well in this Tour de France. Mathieu van der Poel also Kraakt.
Another 157 km – Julian Alaphilippe is arrested by the Peloton on the first steep meters of the Côte de Loubeyrat. The road is up to 16 percent. Who will venture forward?
Another 159 km – An old acquaintance at the front: Julian Alaphilippe. The two -time world champion drives smoothly away from the peloton and already has a margin of 15 seconds . In a few kilometers he will be the first to start the first climb of the day, the Côte de Loubeyrat (4.1 kilometers to 6.3 percent). He wants to entertain the French on this national holiday.
162 km – Krists Neilands and Neilson Powless are for the effort. It is particularly restless in the peloton. Every team wants to have a rider ahead today, it seems. Plows that do not succeed in trying to close the hole right away.
164 km – The first refugee seems to be a fact. The Let Crysts Neilands from Israel Prime Minister Tech attacks and has already cycled a ten-second lead together. The American Neilson Powless of EF Education-Easypost tries to find him.
165 km – The first riders are already trying to get out of the peloton, such as the Belgian Victor Campenaerts from Visma -Lease A Bike and the American road champion Quinn Simmons. They just don’t get any space.
Départ Réel! Tour boss Christian Prudhomme climbs from the red jury car and waves his yellow flag. The tenth stage of the Tour de France, the first mountain rit in this edition, is on the way. It promises an intense struggle to become the flight of the day.
After today new carrier Bollensrui Tim Wellens tells the NOS for the start that he is not going to defend his bulb sweater today, because he has to ride in the service of leader and gene jersey Tadej Pogacar. That normally means that after today we get a new leader in the mountain classification.
So today the attackers also have a sweater to prove. There are 37 points for the mountain classification in this ride. Wellens currently leads the rankings with eight points. At the top of the first climb of the day, the Côte de Loubeyrat, you can earn five points.
Today it will mainly be a race against the clock for the Sprinters and Rijdrijders. After a 7 -kilometer course, the first climb of the second category, the Côte de Loubeyrat (4.1 kilometers to 6.3 percent) follows.
It is expected that the battle for the flight of the day will come to a peak, which will have an impact on the heavily built riders of the peloton. Do they all enter the Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy at the end of the afternoon?
Départ Fictif! The riders left the and Nezat starting place. After a neutralization of 8 kilometers, Tour boss Christian Prudhomme will wave his flag. According to the connoisseurs, it promises a great struggle to become the flight of the day in this first mountain stage.
Arensman: ‘will be a huge fight to get away’ people who want to see fireworks in this Tour ride must, according to Thymen Arensman, immediately engage. “It’s a day before the day of rest. 90 percent of the peloton wants to go wild today. I’m going to try it too. It will be a huge fight to get away. Maybe it will take a long time before the leading group gets the chance.”
Van den Broek wants to be in the leading group today, the Dutchman Frank van den Broek from Team Picnic PostNL wants to be in the flight of the day today, he tells the NOS in advance. “I hope to be able to help Oscar (leader Oscar Onley, ed.) For as long as possible. The plan is to get ahead in a nice group and to assist him at the last minute. Maybe I can still give him ice or things like that.”
Van den Berg First Dutch dropout De Tour de France is waiting for no one, is a winged statement in the Wielerkaravaan, and therefore not at Marijn van den Berg. The Sprinter of the American team EF Education-Easypost is the first Dutch dropout in this Tour de France.
He has too much trouble with a crash from the opening stage, in which he had to have his calf attached and sustained hip complaints. Thus there are twelve Dutch people left in this Tour de France.
Van den Berg thus brings the counter to eleven dropouts this Tour de France. The German Georg Zimmermann of Intermarché-Wanty is also not at the start today. He cannot continue after his fall from yesterday, where he sustained considerable scrapes.
Van der Poel leaves people in Katzijm behind it is just recovering from the effort of Mathieu van der Poel yesterday. After an attack of more than 170 kilometers in a flat ride to Châteauroux, the all -rounder was short for a stage victory. At 750 meters from the line he was arrested by the peloton, after which Tim Merlier was the fastest in the mass sprint.
Just before that, Van der Poels had already arrested teammate Jonas Rickaert, with whom he had driven all day in the attack.
Yet Van der Poel was the moral winner of the day. He received a lot of praise from the peloton and the cyclists for his heroic attack, which he said he placed to get Rickaert on the Tour stage.
Ging -horror Tadej Pogacar was also impressed. “It seems like they can never take it easy. They are disturbed. Because this was quite a flight to me.”
It is only possible that the mountain goats from the Tour-Peloton today put their noses on the window. We think these are the favorites for the stage victory:
⭐⭐⭐ Pogacar and Vingegaard⭐⭐ Evenepoel, Skjelmose, Vauquelin
⭐ Healy, Grégoire, Woods, Barguil
This tenth stage leads the riders from Ennezat to the Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy in the Central Massif. On paper it is a tough ride, with seven climbs of the second category, one climb of the third category and a total of almost 4,500 altimeters.
Never before have so many climbs of the second category been included in a stage in the Tour de France. You would think this should lure the contenders for the final victories out of their tent.
Who would have thought that today would be a day of rest in the Tour de France is wrong. On this 14th of July, a national holiday in France, ‘just’ cycles by the remaining 173 riders. As a result, they are already on the bike for the tenth consecutive day.
Today it is not just a ride. This stage has been looking forward to this stage since the announcement of the Tour course. The peloton is looking for the mountains for the first time today in this 112nd Tour edition, in the Central Massif to be precise. As a result, all eyes are focused on Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.
Good Afternoon and Welcome to this Live Blog! My Name is Jeroen van Barneveld and I will keep you informed about the tens Stage of the Tour de France, in which the Riders Will Climb the Mountains for the First Time. Have fun!
126 km to go – In The Peloton, The German Powerhouse Nils Politt Has Been Riding at the Front for his Leader Tadej Pogacar for a While. The Yellow Jersey Wearer Still Has Five Other Helpers Left: Jhonatan Narváez, Tim Wellens, Adam Yates, Marc Soler and Pavel Sivakov. The Letter has returned to the peloton after having to drop out on the first climb. The Gap to the Leading Group is 1 minute and 50 seconds.
128 km to go – In The Eyes of the Australians Ben O’Connor (Team Jayco Alula) and Harry Sweeny (EF Education -EasyPost), It is not going fast enough, so they letterly ride away from the leading group. There is no Smooth Cooperation at the Front Yet.
134 km to go – Pablo Castrillo Joins the Leading Group with the help of his Spanish Teammate Iván Romeo, which now consists of no less than 29 riders. They are divided over the following teams: EF Education-EasyPost (4), Team Jayco AlUla (3), Israel-Premier Tech (3), Visma-Lease a Bike (2), Soudal Quick-Step (2), Tudor (2), Movistar (2), Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (2), XDS Astana Team (2), Bahrain Victorious (1), Ineos Grenadiers (1), Lidl-Trek (1), Groupama-FDJ (1), Arkéa-B & B Hotels (1), Team energy team (1) and UNO-X Mobility (1).
135 km to go – Punishment for Pablo Castrillo or Movistar. He also has to be in the leading group from the team management and bridge a differentence or 1 minute. Will he succeed in this? Or will it be a chasse patate?
139 km to go – a setback for the dutch followers: Frank van den Broek Cannot Keep up with the pace in the leading group and drops out. The Leading Group Now Consists of 28 Riders, or Whom Thymen Arensman is the only Dutchman.
However, The Dutch Visma-Lease a Bike or Leader Jonas Vingegaard Has Two Riders Ahead: Simon Yates and Victor Campenaerts. Tadej pogacar has not sent any helpers ahead and is having his uae servants ride at the head of the peloton.
143 km to go – and there is the next dropout in this Tour de France and that is no small name: Søren Waerenskjold. The Norwegian, Who won Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Earlier This Year, Crashed Yesterday and is now definitely Hitting the Brakes. After Jasper Philipsen and Marijn van den Berg, Another Name of a Sprinter is crossed out.
144 km to go – Visma lease -a bike has its affairs in Excellent Order, because Simon Yates Joins the Leaders Together with Seven Other Riders. The Leading Group Now Consists of 28 Riders. Julian Alaphilippe and Michael Storer are also riding at the front.
It is Almost Impossible to keep up with all the attacks in the opening phase of this stage in this tour de France. A lot of spectacle was expected in Advance and that is completely Coming True. It is, again, a very fast start to this stage.
150 km to go -for the administration, these are the twenty names in The Leading Group: Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike), Valentin Paret-Pintre (Soudal-Quick Step), Ben Healy, Neilson Powless and Harry Slingez (EFAINORSORSEY, Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), Quentin Pacher (Groupama-fdj), Ben O’Connor and Luke Plapp (Jayco-Alula), Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B & B hotels), Laato-Peintreintrereintreretrerete Aurérintrereintrerein Team), Simone Velasco (XDS-Astana), Steff Cras (TotaalEnergies), Michael Woods, Joe Blackmore and Alexey Lutsenko (Israel Prime Minister Tech) and Frank van den Broek (Team Picnic PostNL).
152 km to go – Luke Plapp of Team Jayco Alula Joins The Leading Group, Bringing the Number of Riders at the Front to Twenty. The Question is for how long. The Peloton is not Yet Giving Free Rein. The Gap is only 20 seconds.
153 km to go – Lenny Martinez is the First to Reach the Top of the Côte de Loubeyrat and Takes Five Points for the Mountain Classification. He now Has Seven Mountain Points, One Point Less Than Tim Wellens, The Wearer of the Polka Dot Jersey. The Frenchman Bruno Armirail Finishes Second behind Martinez.
154 km to go – It’s a mess in the peloton. Now that a group of no less than nineteen riders seems to be getting space, the teams without leaders are still trying to make the crossing. The Differences are small.
155 km to go – a setback for yellow jersey wearer tadej pogacar: pavel sivakov, an important helper in the high mountains, has to drop out of the peloton already. That will boost the morale of fish-lease a bike somewhat.
156 km to go – a Large Leading Group Seems to Be Forming, Including Thymen Arensman and Frank van den Broek. The Dutchmen had Already Announced that would get Involved in the Flight of the Day. They Currently Have A Gap of 12 Seconds .
156 km to go – the by behind the peloton is wide open. Green Jersey Wearer Jonathan Milan Has Already Hoisted the White Flag, As Has Thibau Nys. The Latter is normally a Jumping Jack, but he has said several times that he is not feeling well in this tour de france. Mathieu van der Poel is also cracking.
157 km to go – Julian Alaphilippe is CAUGHT by the Peloton on the First Steep Meters of the Côte de Loubeyrat. The road does rise up to 16 percent. Who will take the Leap Forward Now?
159 km to go – an Old Acquaintance at the Front: Julian Alaphilippe. The two-time World Champion Rides Smoothly Away from the Peloton and Already Has a Margin of 15 Seconds . In a few kilometers he will be the first to start the first climb of the day, the côte de loubeyrat (4.1 kilometers at 6.3 percent). The Wants To Entertain the French on this National Holiday.
162 km to go – Krists Neilands and Neilson Powless Are Doing It For Nothing. It is particularly Restless in the Peloton. Every Team Seems to Want A Rider Ahead Today. Teams that do not succeed in this try to close the gap immediately.
164 km to go – the first escapee seems to be a fact. The Latvian Krists Neilands of Israel Prime Minister Tech Goes on the Attack and Has Already Cycled Together a Lead of Seconds. The American Neilson Powless of EF Education-Easypost Tries to Catch Up With Him.
165 km to go – The First Riders Are Already Trying to Get Away from the Peloton, Such as the Belgian Victor Campenaerts of Visma -Lease a Bike and the American Road Champion Quinn Simmons. They just don’t get any space.
Départ Réel! Tour Boss Christian Prudhomme Climbs Out of the Red Jury Car and Waves His Yellow Flag. The Tenth Stage of the Tour de France, The First Mountain Stage in This Edition, is underway. It promises to be an intense battle for the flight of the day.
New Wearer of the Polka Dot Jersey After Today Tim Wellens Tells Tells The Nos Before the Start that He not defend his polka dot Jersey Today, because he has to ride in the service of leader and yellow jersey wearer tadej pogacar. That normally mean that we have a new leader in the mountain classification after today.
The attackers also have a jersey to hunt for today. There are 37 points for the mountain classification to be earned in this stage. Wellens Currently Leads the Classification with Eight Points. Five points can be earned at the top of the first climb of the day, The Côte de Loubeyrat.
Today Will Mainly Be A Race Against the Clock for the Sprinters and Power Riders. After 7 kilometers of racing, The First Climb of the Second Category Follows, The Côte de Loubeyrat (4.1 kilometers at 6.3 percent).
It is expected that the battle for the flight of the day will peak there, which will have its impact on the heavybily build riders of the peloton. Will they all arrive on time at Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy at the End of the Afternoon?
Départ Fictif! The Riders Have Left the Starting Place Ennezat at Walking Pace. After a neutralization of 8 kilometers, Tour Boss Christian Prudhomme will wave his flag. Accordance to experts, IT promises to be a great battle for the flight of the day in this first mountain stage.
Arensman: ‘It will be a huge fight to get away’ people who want to see fireworks in this Tour Stage Should Switch on Imediately, Accordination to Thymen Arensman. “It is a day before the rest day. 90 percent of the peloton hens to go crazy today. I’m going to try it too. It will be a huge fight to get away.
Van den Broek Wants To Be In The Leading Group Today the Dutchman Frank van den Broek of Team Picnic PostNL Wants To Be In The Flight of the Day Today, He says in Advance to the Nos . “I hope to be able to help Oscar (Leader Oscar Onley, ed.) For Long as Possible. The plan is to get ahead in a nice group and assist him at the last moment. Maybe I can sacrifice Ice or things like that.”
Van den Berg First Dutch Dropout The Tour de France Waits for No One, is a Winged Statement in The Cycling Caravan, and Therefore Not for Marijn van den Berg Either. The Sprinter of the American Team EF Education-Easypost is the First Dutch Dropout in This Tour de France.
He is suffering too much from a crash in the opening stage, in which he had to have his calf stitched and suffered hip complaints. As a result, there are still Twelve Dutchmen Left in this Tour de France.
With This, Van den Berg Brings The Total To Eleven Dropouts in This Tour de France. The German Georg Zimmermann of Intermarché-Wanty Will also not be at the start today. Hey Cannot Continue after his crash yesteray, in which he suffered severe abasions.
Van der Poel Leaves People in A Swoon It is Still Recovering from the Effort of Mathieu van der Poel Yesterday. The All-Rounder Came Just Short Of A Stage Victory After An Attack Of More Than 170 Kilometers In A Flat Stage To Châteauroux. He was Caught by the Peloton 750 meters from the finish, after which Tim Merlier was the fastest in the mass sprint.
Just before that, van der Poel’s teammate Jonas Rickaert, with whom he had Ridden in the Attack All Day, had Already Been Caht.
Yet van der Poel was the Moral Winner of the Day. He recovered a lot of praise from the peloton and the cycling press for his heroic attack, which said he placed to get rickaert on the tour podium.
Yellow Jersey Wearer Tadej Pogacar was also impressed. “It seems like they can never take it easy. They are crazy. Because this was QUITE A Flight.”
It is inevitable that the mountain goats from the tour peloton will stick their noses out the window today. Accordance to us, these are the favorites for the stage Victory:
⭐⭐⭐ Pogacar and Vingegaard⭐⭐ Evenepoel, Skjelmose, Vauquelin
⭐ Healy, Grégoire, Woods, Barguil
This Tenth Stage Takes The Riders From Ennezat To Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy in the Massif Central. On paper it is a very tough stage, with seven climbs of the second category, one climb of the third category and a total of almost 4,500 meters or altitude.
Never before have so many climbs of the second category leg included in a stage in the Tour de France. You would think that this should Lure the Contenders for the Final Victories Out of Their Tents.
Anyone Who Thought Today would be a Rest Day in the Tour de France is Wrong. On this 14th of July, A National Holiday in France, The Remoining 173 Riders Are ‘Just’ Cycling. As a result, they have leg on the bike for the tens consecutive day.
Today is not just any stage either. This Stage Has Been Looked Forward to Since The Announcement of the Tour Route. The Peloton is Looking For The Mountains for the First Time in this 112th Tour Edition, in the Massif Central to Be Precise. As a result, all eyes are on tadej pogacar and jonas vingegaard.