Another 48 km – After the Côte de Botségalo (0.8 kilometers to 5.6 percent), the lead of Rijnbeek is only 15 seconds .
Another 50 km – Rijnbeek started at the Côte de Botségalo (0.8 kilometers to 5.6 percent). The peloton starts here 25 seconds later.
Another 53 km – The peloton is getting closer to Maud Rijnbeek The Dutch has 20 seconds over from its lead.
Another 56 km – Rijnbeek runs away on her own! What is the plan of the Dutch? Drive in the picture for her relatively unknown team VolkerWessels? The lead on the peloton is 35 seconds .
The two women in the front! Tomasi and Rijnbeek have a 40 -second lead on the peloton.
Another 65 km – The peloton keeps its reins firmly in the hands, the lead of the two in front lingers around 30 seconds .
69 km – Tomasi and Rijnbeek now have a 30 -second lead on the peloton.
At least twenty riders were involved in the fall.
The fall during neutralization.
72 km – Rijnbeek and Tomasi are now driving together, but only have a 10 -second lead. Does the peloton hurry, or will the two space get from the large group?
Another 75 km – Laura Tomasi has hit a hole with the peloton, the Dutch Maud Rijnbeek is chasing. Can she find the connection?
Départ Réel! The Tour de France Femmes has begun, now that all riders involved in the Valparte were connected again. Do we soon see an early flight attempt?
Fall! Oh oh oh, a very annoying crash in neutralization. With a roadblock, no one is to indicate that the riders have to give way. One of the riders hits a plate hard, after which several riders fall over her. Let’s hope the damage has been limited …
The opening stage of today is officially called a hill ride, but we only count two categorized climbs: the Côte de Botségalo (0.8 kilometers to 5.3 percent) of the fourth category and the Côte de Cadoudal (1.7 kilometers to 6.2 percent) of the third category.
Départ Fictif! The riders left for the neutralization of the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
The team presentation for the Tour de France Femmes is in full swing. At 17.40 we will definitely start in Vannes.
Kaden Groves Wins the Twentieth Stage of the Tour de France!
The Australian Completes the So-Called Bingo Card, After He PreviOutly won internships in The Vuelta (7) and the Giro (2).
900 meters Left – Groves Has started the last kilometer. The Australian Can Start Enjoying It, Frank van den Broek Just Falls Short Today.
1.9 km Left – Groves Gets The Team Car Next to Him. The Team Bosses From Alpecin-DECEUNINCK Are trying to Rassure The Australian That the Time Difference is Fine.
3.4 km left – It’s over and out for van den Broek, it seems. Something very strange has to happen to prevent quay groves’ first stage win in the Tour de France.
5.8 km Left – Frank van den Broek is still 45 Seconds Behind Groves. It does not look like he’s going to make it, Groves is well on his way to the third stage win for alpecin-deceuneinck this tour de france.
7.0 km Left – for Both Groves and van den Broek, The Descent is now over. It is now flat to the finish.
8.0 km Left – Groves Takes The Corners in the Descent Very Carefully. Of course, he saw up close what happened to grégoire and romeo.
9.2 km – Kaden Groves Has Started the Last, Short Descent. The Last 7.5 kilometers are flat.
10 km Left – Frank van den Broek Puts on the Acceleration! The Dutchman Drives Away from Stewart, But Still Has To Make Up 40 Seconds On Kaden Groves. How good is Van den Broek Today?
11 km Left – Van den Broek and Stewart Drive Away from the Other Chasing Group. Can they work together this time?
12 km Left – Van den Broek Puts himself at the head of the chasing Group, where eelkhoorn has now also joined, but the difference is Already 45 Seconds .
Kaden Groves Has Already won Seven Stages in The Vuelta and Two Stages in The Giro. Will he complete the so-called bingo card today with his first tour stage Victory?
15 km Left – Groves has gathered a 25 second lead in a short time over Van den Broek and Stewart. It was a bizarre sight. Van den Broek and Stewart stopped pedaling for a moment, and groves therefore drove away from the duo without a serious acceleration.
16 km Left – Groves with the acceleration! Van den Broek and Stewart Are Strangely Not Responding. They immediately give the australian a lot of space, a very strange sight. They simply stopped pedaling.
17 km Left – In a kilometer we have that another strip where it goes up QUITE A BIT. This is the perfect opportunity to drive away from Groves, for van den Broek. You don’t want to ride to the finish with a sprinter, but groves has also looked QUITE STRONG UPHILL SO FAR.
18 km Left – Grégoire is back on his bike, it is not Yet Clear How Romeo is Doing.
19 km Left – Pascal Eenkhoorn Currently Follows The Three Leaders by 10 Seconds .
20 km Left – So We Now Have Three Leaders: Groves, Stewart and Frank van den Broek. The Chances of the Dutchman Winning the Stage Have Just Increased Considerably, Because Three Other Riders Fell.
21 km Left – Crash! Oh oh, a hard crash in the descent of the front men! Iván Romeo Goes Down Hard and Left is injured. Romain Grégoire and Simone Velasco also go down hard.
24 km Left – Five Riders, Including of Den Broek, Were Able to Follow Romeo. Eenkhoorn is in Trouble.
24 km Left – 700 Meters Before the Top of the Climb, Romeo Drives Away! The Spaniard realizes that has to be ahead of the sprinters.
25 km Left – Nine of the ten Riders Are Still Together on the Climb for the Time Being. Only Trentin is Having A Hard Time.
26 km Left – We have arrived at the last climb of the day and sprinter groves is launching the attack. What a surprise! Frank van den Broek is in The Wheel of the Australian.
28 km Left – The Two Chasing Groups Have Merged and Are Connecting with Sweeny. Wellens, Jorgenson and Costiou have just had to go or the chasing group, so we now have a leading group of ten riders.
30 km Left – A Small Group with the Two Dutchmen is Riding Towards Seveny. Van den Broek, Eenkhoorn, Grégoire, Groves and Stewart Are Riding About 20 Seconds Behind The Australian From Eph Education.
34 km Left – The Accelerations in The Chasing Group Have Ensured That Sweeny’s Margin is Only 35 Seconds .
35 km – Van Aert is not going to do it anymore today, it seems. The Belgian is riding in a Large Group 4 minutes behind the head of the race.
35 km – Jorgenson’s Attack is over, but now one -koorn is Driving Away from the Group. Chaos in The Chasing Group. Who is Actually Driving Away?
36 km – Jorgenson Now with the acceleration! The American Knows That He must not Let Sweeny’s Lead Get Too High.
39 km – That Just Went Well! After a Sharp Turn, SEENY HAS To improvise, He Jumps with his bike over a threshold. The Difference with the Group of Eenkhoorn and van den Broek is still 50 seconds .
44 km – Harry Sweeny Has Now Received QUITE A BIT of Space from the Chasing Group, While It is Raining Hard Again. The Australian Has A Lead of 50 Seconds .
50 km – Jegat Has Been Caht Again by the Chasing Group with van den Broek and Eenkhoorn. Seveny is a still riding in front of the Large Group.
51 km – Bike Change for Jonas Vingegaard! The Dane Lets himself Drop Back to the Team Car For A Moment.
56 km – The Group with van Aert is not really Succeding in Getting Closer. The Current State of Affairs:
There is Hardly Any Sign of the Bad Weather Conditions Earlier in The Stage.
61 km – Van Aert and his four companions are trying to connect with the leading group, but are still riding 2 minutes and 25 seconds Beind Seveny and Jegat. The Peloton is riding about 1 minute behind the group with van Aert.
62 km – SVEENY is also Driving Away from the Leading Group! The man from EF Education Quickly Connects with Jordan Jegat. So we now have a duo at the head.
63 km – Jegat is Driving Away from the Leading Group! What is the planning? You can’t imagine that hey to ride solo to the finish from here?
63 km – Van Aert is also Launching a Counter -Attack Now! The man from visma-lease a bike has to make up QUITE A BIT of time, but the pace is good with the Belgian.
64 km – A French Counter -Attack on the Côte de Thésy! Axel Laurance and Mathis Le Berre Are Creating A Gap With The Peloton. But Will they manage to ride to the leading group? It’s still QUITE FAR.
65 km – The Peloton Has Now also the Climb of the Second Category. What Happens to the Time Difference with the Leading Group?
66 km – The Leading Group Has Started the Côte de Thésy! Will This Group Fall Apart Here, or Will They Keep Each Other in Sight?
70 km – The Difference Between the Leading Group and the Peloton Has Increased Again Slightly, to 2 Minutes and 30 Seconds . Furthermore, not much happens in the last kilometers. We are Almost Starting the Toughest Climb of the Day: The Côte de Thésy (3.5 kilometers at 9 percent). The Thésy is of the Second Category.
80 km – Mauro Schmid from Jayco -Alula Just crashed hard in the peloton, but is now riding at the head of the peloton. Thanks to Him, The Leading Group is not Yet Able to Ride Further Away than 2 minutes and 10 seconds .
The Following Teams Do Not Have A Rider In The Leading Group:
The Thirteen Riders in the Leading Group Are All From A Different Team! The Group with Frank van den Broek and Pascal Eenkhoorn Still has a lead of 2 minutes and 5 seconds .
90 km – There are already two long slopes up. But Still the Pace of this Stage is an Average or 46 kilometers per hour.
95 km – Pogacar stops for a Pee Break, and So the Difference Between the Leading Group and the Peloton Increases to 2 minutes and 10 Seconds .
101 km – Crash! Ai! In a short strip downhill, clément champoussin goes down hard. He slides meters further on.
108 km – Watson and Van Moer Are Still Trying to Catch Up With The Leading Group. The Current State of Affairs:
112 km – Crash! Oh dear! Mauro Schmid Goes Down Very Hard In The Descent … Let’s Hope That The Damage is Limited for the Swiss Champion.
119 km – The Group with van den Broek and Eenkhoorn Connects with the Trio at the Front! So we now have a leading group of Thirteen.
120 km – The Weather is Now Clearing Up A Bit in France. The Sun is Slowly Coming Out.
The Battle for Final Victory is in principle over. But Tadej Pogacar keeps a close eye on Jonas Vingegaard.
126 km – The Ten Pursuers of Wellens, Jorgenson and Costiou: Jegat, Grégoire, Sweeny, Velasco, Van den Broek , Eenkhoorn , Groves, Trentin, Romeo and Stewart.
128 km – Pascal Eenkhoorn and Frank van den Broek are the Two Dutchmen in The Pursuer Group. They are riding about 10 seconds behind the leading group of three, the peloton follows the pursuer group again at 15 seconds .
130 km – Van den Broek and the other pursuers seem to be connecting again with Wellens, Jorgenson and Costiou.
134 km – But van den Broek Has Already Lost Sight of the Leading Group. In these Harsh Weather Conditions, The Race Situation Changes Every Minute. Currently, Tim Wellens, Matteo Jorgenson and Ewen Costiou Have a Gap over the Thinned-Out Peloton. 15 Seconds is The Difference Between the Trio and the Peloton.
136 km – Even what was Left of the Peloton is completely breaking apart. It is really a battlefield in this Penultimate Stage of the Tour de France.
139 km – Tim Wellens with the acceleration at 1 kilometer from the top of the climb! The Belgian Champion Already won A Stage Earlier This Tour, what can he do today?
In this photo it is easy to see that the weather conditions are not good in the penultimate stage of the tour de france.
140 km – The Front Peloton Currently Only consists of about 35 Riders, The Large Group Has Already Been Thinned Out Very Early. Among Others, Oscar Onley is not with the front group. Onley is Number Four in the Standings and Second in the Youth Standings.
143 km – We Are Still Heading Towards Regrouping. The Large Group in Front is Being Caht Up by the Peloton Again.
144 km – We Seem To Have A Group That Has Broken Away from the Peloton Just Before the Second Climb of the Day. Will we finally get a serious breakaway on the côte de valfin (5.6 kilometers at 4.3 percent)?
154 km – Louis Barré Tok Two Mountain Points on Top of the Col de la Croix de la Serra (12.2 kilometers at 4.1 percent). The Other Mountain Point Goes to Iván Romeo. They don’t really have anything to gain from this.
159 km – The Peloton is at the Top After the First Climb of the Twentieth Stage. We are getting a fairly long descent now, and the road is very slippery. Let’s Hope Everyone Just Stays On The Bike.
162 km – Van Aert is Accelerating Again, On A Steeper Stretch of the Hill. The Peloton Has Swallowed the Three Escapees Again. The Green Jersey is 2 minutes behind here, Arnaud de Lie Already has to give in 3 minutes and 40 seconds .
163 km – The Weather Conditions Are Really Bad And Very Bad. It is renting hard, and the roads are therefore very slippery. Let’s Hope That Goes Well In The Descent!
165 km – The Two Men From Eph Education Are Neilson Powless and Harry Sweeny. They are accompanied by arkéa rider raúl garcia, who is also tried to ride to asgreen.
165 km – Again a Group with Riders from EF Education is Creating A Gap. Is Kasper Asgreen with Theme Again?
166 km – IT is Raining Hard on the Col de la Croix de la Serra (12.2 kilometers at 4.1 percent), This Makes for Very Slippery Roads. So be careful!
168 km – The Green Jersey also has to let go of the peloton now. It seems that canot participate in the intermediate sprint.
167 km – Over And Out for Kasper Asgreen! The Dane is Being Caht by the Peloton.
168 km – Meanwhile, Something Seems to Be Wrong with Arnaud de Lie. The Rider From Lotto is Already 1 minute and 40 Seconds Behind the Peloton.