Vulcania – Issoire – 167 Km

1 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 03:52:34
2 ZIMMERMANN Georg GER INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:00
3 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 00:00
4 NEILANDS Krists LAT ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
5 CHAVES Jhoan Esteban COL EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 00:00
6 PEDRERO Antonio ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 00:03
7 JENSEN Skjelmose Mattias DEN LIDL – TREK 00:27
8 KWIATKOWSKI Michal POL INEOS GRENADIERS 00:27
9 BARGUIL Warren FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:30
10 ALAPHILIPPE Julian FRA SOUDAL QUICK-STEP 00:32
11 STUYVEN Jasper BEL LIDL – TREK 02:53
12 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 02:53
13 ARANBURU DEBA Alex ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 02:53
14 VAN GILS Maxim BEL LOTTO DSTNY 02:53
15 EENKHOORN Pascal NED LOTTO DSTNY 02:53
16 NIELSEN Magnus Cort DEN EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 02:53
17 ABRAHAMSEN Jonas NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 02:53
18 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 02:53
19 KÜNG Stefan SUI GROUPAMA – FDJ 02:53
20 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 02:53
21 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 02:53
22 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:53
23 PEREZ Anthony FRA COFIDIS 02:53
24 DE LA CRUZ David ESP ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 02:53

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 42:33:13
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:17
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 02:40
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:22
5 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 04:34
6 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:39
7 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:44
8 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 05:26
9 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:01
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 06:45
11 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 06:58
12 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 08:50
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 09:09
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 09:09
15 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 09:36
16 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 09:46

Ausreißer entscheiden verrückte 10. Etappe bei der Tour de France

Nach dem ersten Ruhetag entbrannte zum Beginn der 10. Etappe eine wahre Schlacht im Peloton. Nach 30 km war das Feld in mehrere Gruppen zersplittert und einige der GC-Favoriten befanden sich mehrere Minuten hinter der Spitze. Jai Hindley und Emanuel Buchmann konnten sich immer in der ersten Gruppe halten und als sich das Rennen etwas beruhigte, setzten sich 14 Fahrer vom Feld ab. Hinter der Spitze lief das Feld wieder zusammen, während vorne ein Kampf um den Tagessieg entbrannte. Am Ende sicherte sich P. Bilbao den Sieg aus einer 6-Mann-Gruppe und rückt in die Top Ten der Gesamtwertung auf. Jai Hindley beendete die Etappe sicher im Feld und liegt weiter auf dem dritten Gesamtrang.

Von der Ziellinie
“Das war ein richtig harter Tag. Nach dem Ruhetag weiß man nie so genau, wie es läuft und dann kam auch noch die Hitze dazu. Die ersten eineinhalb Stunden waren brutal, ich denke, jeder war da am Limit. Ich war echt froh, als die Gruppe weggefahren ist, auch wenn Bilbao dabei war. Er hat den Sieg definitiv verdient und auch von mir Gratulation dazu. Meine Beine wurden während der Etappe immer besser und die Jungs haben mich auch gut unterstützt. Am Anfang war Emu bei mir, als das Feld zusammenlief, haben vor allem Marco und Bob einen super Job gemacht. Wenn es so heiß ist, ist die Unterstützung besonders wichtig, denn man braucht genug Flaschen und Eis. Wir können mit dem Tag zufrieden sein, aber man sieht, dass bei der Tour jede Etappe entscheidend sein kann.” – Jai Hindley

Bilbao was on a mission since… Bilbao

A star of the Grand Départ in Bilbao on his home soil in the Basque Country, Pello Bilbao claimed his first ever Tour de France victory in Issoire at the end a very hard fought breakaway day. He put an end to a 99-stage drought of Spanish wins (since Omar Fraile in Mende in 2018) as he outsprinted Georg Zimmermann and Ben O’Connor. The 33 year old dedicated his victory to his team-late Gino Mäder who tragically passed away at the Tour de Suisse last month. He moved up to fifth overall while Jonas Vingegaard who went in a breakaway along with Tadej Pogacar in the early part of the race retained the yellow jersey.

VINGEGAARD AND POGACAR AND IN AN EARLY BREAKAWAY

The start proper of stage 10 has been given to 169 riders at 13.17. Following several skirmishes, a group of 22 riders was formed at the front after the col de la Moréno crested firstly by Anton Charmig (Uno-X). Interestingly, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) were part of it, along with Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla) and Romain Bardet (DSM-Firmenich). The duellists sat up at some stage, 13 riders remained in the lead but the peloton reacted strongly and several top riders got dropped, including Bardet, Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ). After the col de Guéry (cat. 3, km 27.3) where Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) passed first in front of Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) and Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) rode away in the downhill. They didn’t get the green light.

14 RIDERS IN THE LEAD, INCLUDING BILBAO AND ALAPHILIPPE

Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Nick Schultz (Israel-Premier Tech), Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) formed a new leading group at km 41. Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citroën), Harold Tejada (Astana), Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step), Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech), Antonio Pedrero (Movistar), Anthony Perez (Cofidis), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) launched a counter-attack. Once the main peloton slowed down, the Gaudu-Bardet-Van Aert group managed to get back on. Asgreen lost contact and was substituted in the 7-man escape by O’Connor who jumped by himself. The regrouping of the 14 men occurred with 86km to go, after which Chaves rode away solo up the hill of Saint-Victor-la-Rivière.

TWO STRONG ATTACKS BY KRISTS NEILANDS

Neilands rode away solo with 53km to go in order to keep the chances of the escape alive while Alpecin-Deceuninck and Jayco-AlUla were swapping turns at the head of the peloton as the deficit had gone down from 3 to 2 minutes. Van Aert and Van der Poel escaped from the peloton in a downhill with 46km to go. They were successively brought back by the pack led by Ineos Grenadiers while Neilands had gone away by himself once again with 33km remaining. The Latvian was brought back at the 3km to go mark. O’Connor tried to avoid a sprint finish with 1.8km to go but he was marked. Bilbao and Zimmermann took an advantage in the last straight line. They were also reeled in but Bilbao still had some speed in his legs to win. His best result at the Tour de France so far was second at Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 2019.