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110. Tour de France Etappe 12

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Roanne – Belleville-en-Beaujolais – 169 Km

1 IZAGUIRRE INSAUSTI Ion ESP COFIDIS 03:51:42
2 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 00:58
3 JORGENSON Matteo USA MOVISTAR TEAM 00:58
4 BENOOT Tiesj BEL JUMBO-VISMA 01:06
5 JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 01:11
6 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 01:13
7 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 01:13
8 TEUNS Dylan BEL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 01:27
9 ALMEIDA GUERREIRO Ruben POR MOVISTAR TEAM 01:27
10 CAMPENAERTS Victor BEL LOTTO DSTNY 03:02
11 VAN GILS Maxim BEL LOTTO DSTNY 04:14
12 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:14
13 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 04:14
14 POLITT Nils GER BORA – HANSGROHE 04:14
15 STUYVEN Jasper BEL LIDL – TREK 04:14
16 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 04:14
17 VAN DEN BERG Lars NED GROUPAMA – FDJ 04:14
18 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:14
19 GENIETS Kévin LUX GROUPAMA – FDJ 04:14
20 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 04:14
21 BERNAL Egan COL INEOS GRENADIERS 04:14

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 50:30:23
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 PINOT Thibaut FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:33
11 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 06:45
12 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 06:58
13 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 08:11
14 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 08:50
15 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 09:09
16 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 09:09
17 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 09:46

Erneuter Ausreißersieg, während Jai Hindley die Alpen auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung bei der Tour de France in Angriff nimmt

Eine weitere unvorhersehbare Etappe vor den großen Alpenpässen am Wochenende wurde von den Fahrern abermals für ein spektakuläres Rennen genutzt. Es dauerte mehr als 90 km, bevor sich eine Gruppe lösen konnte, und auf dem hügeligen Profil flog das Feld völlig auseinander. Jai Hindley war immer an der Seite des Gelben Trikots, während einige der Mitfavoriten um den Gesamtsieg teilweise mehr als drei Minuten abgehängt waren. Als die Spitzengruppe stand, beruhigte sich das Rennen etwas und das Feld lief wieder zusammen. Am Ende holte J. Izaguirre den Etappensieg aus der Spitzengruppe, während Jai sicher im Feld das Ziel erreichte und damit auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung die Alpen in Angriff nimmt.

Von der Ziellinie
“Die Etappe wurde gefahren, als wäre die Tour morgen zu Ende. Zum Glück war es heute nicht ganz so heiß dafür was das Tempo unglaublich. Trotz der Anstiege wurde in den ersten beiden Rennstunden ein Schnitt von 47 km/h gefahren. Nils hatte einen wahnsinnig guten Tag und war die ganze Zeit bei Jai, was unglaublich wichtig war. Emu ist am Anfang hinter einen Sturz aufgehalten worden und war dann im zweiten Feld. Zum Glück konnte er später auch zurückkommen und gegen Ende waren wir ganz gut aufgestellt. Aber so ein Tag zehrt. An den Kräften der Fahrer und an den Nerven bei uns im Auto.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Ion Izagirre doubles up

Inspired by the end of the 15-year drought for Cofidis and the end of the 5-year drought for Spain in terms of stage wins at the Tour de France, Ion Izagirre, 34, claimed his second stage win in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, seven years after his first one in Morzine as he emulated his team-mate Victor Lafay and his compatriot Pello Bilbao, a Basque rider like him who started with an exceptional motivation in Bilbao. Jonas Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey in an action packed stage in the vineyards.

CLASSICS SPECIALISTS ON THE MOVE

The start proper of stage 12 was given at 13.27 to 168 riders. One non-starter: Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal-Quick Step). Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) was the first on the attack but no one wanted to go with him as he’d be hard to beat from a breakaway group. He was brought back by the compact bunch after 3km and that led to successive and unfruitful attacks for more than an hour. Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) were among the specialists of the big classics eager to break away. David De La Cruz (Astana) crashed out in a downhill to St-Vincent-de-Reins (km 28). At km 45, Van Aert managed to go clear but he was brought back after 8km alone in the lead.

15 RIDERS IN THE LEAD

A strong leading group was eventually formed at half way into stage 12 by 13 riders in several waves: Tiesj Benoot (Jumbo-Visma), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost), Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek), Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Guillaume Martin, Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Ruben Guerreiro, Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar), Dylan Teuns (Israel-PremierTech), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny), Tobias Halland Johanessen (Uno-X) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies). Alaphilippe (Soudal-Quick Step) and Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek) came across on the line of the intermediate sprint at Régnié-Durette where Pedersen scored 20 points in first position. The peloton was divided in three groups with the likes of Sepp Kuss, Mikel Landa, Emanuel Buchmann and Louis Meintjes among the stragglers, which inclined AG2R-Citroën to pace the yellow jersey group in order to get Felix Gall move up on GC. Van der Poel and Amador rode away from the leading group with 55km to go. The Dutchman sped up and continued solo up the côte de Montmain.

IZAGIRRE ALONE IN THE LAST 31KM

32km before the end, Pinot and Jorgenson caught up with Van der Poel. It became an 8-man group with the reinforcement of Martin, I. Izagirre, Benoot, Guerreiro and Burgaudeau. Izagirre rode away by himself 31km before the finish. After the Kuss group caught up with the yellow jersey group, Ineos Grenadiers set the pace of that main peloton as Pinot was threatening the fourth place overall of Carlos Rodriguez. Izagirre reached an advantage of 50’’ with 15km to go. He forged on as the cooperation in the chasing group wasn’t great. Jorgenson and Burgaudeau attacked with 3km to go to round out the stage podium. The yellow jersey peloton crossed the line 4’14’’ after the Spanish winner.

TOUR DE FRANCE FEMMES AVEC ZWIFT HOW THE TOUR CHANGED MY LIFE (IV/VI) Liane Lippert

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Liane Lippert: „Everybody will be at the top of their shape“


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25-year-old Liane Lippert is the puncher on everyone’s lips right now. Her second-place finish in the Flèche Wallonne, coming a year after she took the bottom step of the podium in the Amstel Gold Race, painted a bright future for her in the Ardennes Classics. And the Tour? While the German champion describes her participation in the inaugural edition as „a great experience“, she makes no secret of the fact that she failed to achieve the hoped-for results after crashing in the stage she had marked in red. She is heading back to France and dreaming of finally raising her arms in victory, but she now races for a different squad. Last winter, she brought down the curtain on her time at DMS, the team where she had turned pro in 2017 right after her promotion from the Junior ranks. Annemiek Van Vleuten has taken her under her wing in Movistar, where the German hopes to repay the favour by propelling her team leader to the top of the podium in Pau.

Liane Lippert (Movistar Team)
Born in Friedrichshafen (Germany) on 13 January 1998
Teams
Team Sunweb (2017 to 2020), Team DSM (2021 to 2022) and Movistar Team (2023)
Major results
2016: Junior European champion
2018: German champion, stage 3 and the overall of the Lotto Belgium Tour
2020: Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, second in the Brabantse Pijl and eighth in the Flèche Wallonne
2021: second in stage 3 of the Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta, silver medal in the European Championships
2022: German champion, second in the Tour of Scandinavia, third in the Amstel Gold Race, third in the Brabantse Pijl and fourth in the Worlds
2023: second in the Flèche Wallonne, third in the Brabantse Pijl, seventh in the Itzulia Women and eighth in Liège–Bastogne–Liège

Signature trait: Liane Lippert was raised on the shores of Lake Constance, in Germany, where she still lives: „It’s a beautiful place not far from Austria and Switzerland. It’s perfect for training. I got started when I was eight. My father used to cycle recreationally. I signed up for his club and have never stopped pedalling!“

How would you describe the impact of the first edition of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on your life?
I would say pretty much. In Germany, women’s cycling is not very big, now it’s a bit more. Since the Tour de France, for sure, more and more people know about it. If I say I’m a cyclist, they know there was a Tour de France Femmes. That’s changed a lot, especially because I have the national champion jersey. It was nice to come back home. I won’t say people recognised me on the street, but they recognised me more. It was changing a lot. I get more fans and publicity. I get more interviews, more people from my area give me feedback after races.

And what about your career?
Firstly, I didn’t have the result I wished. I wanted to go for some stages, but I had some bad luck with the crash, and I had to work for Lorena [Wiebes, the winner of stages 1 and 5] in the sprints and for Juliette [Labous] for the GC, so for my results, it has not changed so much. It was just a great experience, I would say.

„I’m working to be able to fight with the climbers“

This sense of frustration must have been strong after the stage to Épernay? You were at the front of the race after the Côte de Mutigny. Then, you crashed on the descent…
Yes, it was, for sure. I had a chance with the team, I was ready for it, it was a good finish for me, and then I crashed and the race was finished. It was disappointing at the moment. It was my goal, and then we had to take the GC and go for sprint stages, there was a lot to do, so I could forget about it because I was busy.

After six years with DSM, you are now in a new team. What motivated you to move from DSM to Movistar?
After 6 years, I wanted to see something else, to find a new team. Movistar had a good plan for me, they really see me as a leader for the future. For me, it was a super opportunity.

Can we say that your move from DSM to Movistar is the sign that you also want to become a GC rider and succeed Van Vleuten at the top of the women’s cycling?
No, we are two completely different riders. I showed this year how strong I can be in the Ardennes classics [second in the Flèche Wallonne and eighth in Liège–Bastogne–Liège]. This is something where I want to focus, and to aim one step higher on the podium. For the GC, I have to see. I’m also working to be able to survive on longer climbs and be able to fight with the climbers. For sure, I want to test my legs this year on one of the Grand Tours. But I don’t want to change the rider I am because I think it’s a bad idea.

Tell us about your relationship with Annemiek and the role she has for you.
Annemiek really likes to share her experience, her knowledge, that’s really useful for the races. She’s one of the best. It was also nice to win the Vuelta together [Van Vleuten claimed the Spanish Grand Tour for the third time in a row last June]. It was a special feeling that I’ve never had before.

„The Tour is the biggest race where you can win“

What is your ambition for the second Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift?
We want to win with the team. Like last year, Annemiek wants to win the Tour. As for me, I’ll focus on stages. The fourth one, with the steep climb at one kilometre to go, suits me best. And I will support Annemiek for GC

Last year, the Tour came to the Vosges with two gruelling mountain stages. This year, it is going even higher in the Pyrenees. Would you say that the Tour brings new challenges to women’s cycling?

Yes, I would say so. But I also think the flat stages last year were hard too, which says a lot about the level of the Tour. Everybody will be at the top of their shape in the Tour. It will be very difficult to win because everyone is at such a high level.

Even if it has only had one edition so far, would you say that it is already the biggest race?
Yes, I would say so. I would love to win one of the Ardennes classics, but a stage in the Tour is the biggest race where you can win. I’ll do the nationals, the Giro and then the Tour. The races are planned to allow me to improve my shape for the Tour.

110. Tour de France Etappe 11 Daten

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2: THERE ARE ONLY TWO!
Jasper Philipsen wins his 6th Tour stage, the 4th in this edition.
He becomes the second active rider with at least 4 wins in a single Tour after Mark Cavendish (record: 6 in 2009, the last time with 4: 2021).

60.1: A FURIOUS RUN-IN TO MOULINS
Jasper Philipsen dominated a particularly fast and furious ending of stage 11, covering the last 20 kilometres with an average speed of 60.1km/h. The Belgian sprinter upped the ante to 65.6km/h in the last kilometre, with a top speed of 71.1km/h according to the records of NTT Data.

4X11: SO MANY, SO EARLY
4 wins in the first 11 stages for Jasper Philipsen: the best value since 2017, when Marcel Kittel posted 5, the second all-time value so early in the Tour behind the 6 of François Faber in 1909.

25: A WAIT OF A QUARTER OF A CENTURY
Jasper Philipsen is the first Belgian with 4 wins in a single Tour since Tom Steels in 1998 (stages 1, 12, 18 and 21). Wout van Aert won 3 stages in 2021 and in 2022 as well.

8: THANKS JASPER!
8th win for the Alpecin Team at the Tour. Without Jasper Philipsen, their total would be 2 and their last win would be the 3rd stage of 2021 (Tim Merlier in Pontivy): all the last 6 stages for them are signed by Philipsen.

4-1: COUNTRIES HEAD-TO-HEAD
Since the start of 2020 (Tadej Pogacar’s debut at the Tour), the two most successful countries at the Tour are Belgium (17 stage wins) and Slovenia (13). This year Belgium leads Slovenia 4-1 for stage wins so far.

52/58: PARIS IS GETTING CLOSER
The riders went past the halfway point of the Tour 2023 yesterday. Now that they’ve completed stage 11: they’ve covered 1973.8 of the 3,405.6 kilometres (58%) from Bilbao to Paris and they’ve also overcome more than half of the total elevation of the Tour: 30,371 metres out of 58,037 (52%).
The hardest part is yet to come. The stage with most elevation so far was on day 6, with 3,916 metres to overcome on stage 6 (Pau > Laruns). Three stages beat that score on the remaining way to Paris:
• 4,246 m on stage 14 (Annemasse > Morzine Les Portes du Soleil)
• 4,394 m on stage 15 (Les Gets Les Portes du Soleil > Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc)
• 5,149 m on stage 17 (Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc > Courchevel)

12: WINNER OR SECOND?
Dylan Groenewegen obtains his 12th podium stage at the Tour: now he has scored equally 5 wins and 5 second places, plus 2 third places.
This is his first top-3 in this Tour and since he was second, again behind Philipsen, last year at the Champs Elysées.

3: GETTING THERE
Third top-3 at this Tour for Phil Bauhaus (3rd) after a 2nd place in Bayonne and a 3rd in Nogaro.

110. Tour de France Etappe 11

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Clermont-Ferrand – Moulins – 180 Km

1 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 04:01:07
2 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:00
3 BAUHAUS Phil GER BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:00
4 COQUARD Bryan FRA COFIDIS 00:00
5 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 00:00
6 KRISTOFF Alexander NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
7 MOZZATO Luca ITA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
8 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00
9 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
10 WELSFORD Sam AUS TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
11 MEEUS Jordi BEL BORA – HANSGROHE 00:00
12 BOL Cees NED ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:00
13 GIRMAY Biniam ERI INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 00:00
14 STRONG Corbin NZL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
15 EWAN Caleb AUS LOTTO DSTNY 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 46:34:27
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

Philipsen holt vierten Etappensieg, während Jordi Meeus gerade noch einen Sturz vermeiden kann im Sprint der 11. Etappe der Tour de France

Die 11. Etappe der Tour de France war eine der letzten Chancen für die Sprinter im Feld. Entsprechend wurde das Rennen auch kontrolliert, als sich ein Trio absetzen konnte. Der letzte der Ausreißer wurde 8 km vor dem Ziel gestellt und alles war für einen Sprint angerichtet. BORA – hansgrohe zeigte sich mit 20 km an der Spitze des Feldes, um Jai Hindley aus Schwierigkeiten zu halten, aber auch, um Jordi Meeus vor dem Finale zu platzieren. Regen erschwerte die letzte Phase des Rennens und am Ende sicherte sich J. Philipsen seinen bereits vierten Tagessieg. Jordi Meeus war an der 500 m Marke in guter Position, wurde dann aber in Richtung Absperrung gestoßen und konnte gerade noch einen Sturz vermeiden, um letztlich Rang 11 zu belegen.

Von der Ziellinie
“Das Finale war heute besonders nervös, weil es am Ende auch noch geregnet hat. Ich war an den letzten Kreisverkehren sehr gut platziert und hatte eigentlich auch das richtige Hinterrad. Dann ging aber das Tempo runter und einige Fahrer kamen von hinten. Ich wurde Richtung Barriere gedrückt und habe einen Zuschauer berührt, ich konnte gerade noch einen Sturz vermeiden. Ich habe noch einmal versucht, in Position zu kommen, aber dann hat sich Pedersen unter meinem Arm verhakt und ich habe wieder die Balance verloren. Da war der Sprint für mich zu Ende. Es ist frustrierend, denn bisher bin ich nie in eine Position gekommen, um einen freien Sprint zu fahren.” – Jordi Meeus

Jasper the master

Jasper Philipsen took place in the modern history of the Tour de France as he became the second active rider with at least four stage wins in a single Tour after Mark Cavendish as he outclassed Dylan Groenewegen and Phil Bauhaus in Moulins where Jonas Vingegaard collected the 17th Maillot Jaune of his career.

AMADOR, LOUVEL AND OSS AT THE FRONT

The start proper of stage 11 was given to 169 riders at 13.26. Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost) was first out of the peloton, although at a slow speed. Two riders joined him: Tony Gallopin (Lidl-Trek) and Matîs Louvel (Arkea-Samsic). Gallopin sat up but Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies) substituted him as he made the jump. This leading trio easily took some advantage to reach a maximum of 3’20’’ at km 25 where Alpecin-Deceuninck decided to take the responsibilities to pace the peloton. The teams of the top sprinters left with no win in the first four bunch gallops, namely Jayco-AlUla, Lotto-Dstny and Soudal-Quick, respectively for Dylan Groenewegen, Caleb Ewan and Fabio Jakobsen.

OSS UNTIL 13.5KM TO GO

The peloton delayed the regrouping as long as possible but crosswinds led GC teams to speed up in their move to position their captains close to the helm. With 54km to go, Louvel sat up, so did Amador 5km further. Oss remained alone. He forged on even when the rain made its first appearance on the roads of the Tour de France this year. The Italian veteran was reeled in 13.5km before the end. Soudal-Quick positioned Fabio Jakobsen at the front with 10km remaining.

IT’S PHILIPSEN AGAIN

Jumbo-Visma took over from the sprinters’ teams, firstly to keep Jonas Vingegaard out of trouble until 3km to go, secondly to pave the way for Wout van Aert. Dylan Groenewegen got the best lead out and launched the sprint but Philipsen was smart to follow his slipstream in the absence of Mathieu van der Poel in the finale this time around. The Belgian passed him to score his fourth stage win this year.

110. Tour de France Etappe 10 Daten

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 10
VULCANIA – ISSOIRE
100: WELCOME BACK, SPAIN!
At the 100th stage since their last win, Spain wins again at the Tour with Pello Bilbao. Their previous one had been the 2018 Mende stage with Omar Fraile.
The Spanish drought was the longest since the 1978-1983 period, 118 stages long. At the time Angel Arroyo closed it winning at the Puy de Dôme, a stage which followed Issoire, the same finish of today.
Pello Bilbao before today had obtained only one top-3 finish at the Tour: 2nd in Bagnères-de-Bigorre in 2019.

168X2: THE COMMITMENT FOR GINO
To honour Gino Mäder, Pello Bilbao announced he would make donations based on the number of riders he would beat in the Tour 2023, following the example set in previous years by his late teammate.
The Basque rider had already finished ahead of 1,204 riders in the first 9 days of the race, with his best result on stage 2 (5th). This time, he beat 168 riders to take the win – and he announced he would double the donation in the case of a stage win!
The money will go to a Basque association, Basoak SOS, which buys up deforested land to replant it with local species of plants.

33: THE NEW YOUNGSTERS
The winners of the last two stages are the “less young” of this year:
• Michael Woods: 36 years 8 months 27 days
• Pello Bilbao: 33 years 4 months 16 days (his first win as a 33 year-old).
The only other winner above 30 years is Adam Yates (Bilbao): 30 years 10 months 24 days.

3: SO CLOSE TO GLORY…
Krists Neilands went 3,1 kilometers from giving Latvia their 3rd win. The previous two came in 1994, by Piotr Ugrumov (Cluses, Avoriaz), the last one on the 22nd of July, 27 days before Neilands was born.

2: GERMANY IS ALMOST THERE
First Tour stage podium for Georg Zimmerman (2nd). Germany this year had already scored two top-3 placements, with Phil Bauhaus, 2nd in stage 3 and 3rd in stage 4.
The last win from Germany is now more than 2 years away (8th of July 2021: Nils Politt in Nimes).
Rather than Germany, Spain is the 8th nation to win a stage in this Tour, after Great Britain, France, Belgium, Australia, Slovenia, Denmark and Canada.
In third place, Australian Ben O’Connor had already seen a compatriot win this year: his friend Jai Hindley in Laruns.

10: ALAPHILIPPE FILLING THE VOID
There have been hard times for Julian Alaphilippe recently, but today’s stage gave signs of hope as he scored his first top-10 placement at the Tour (10th) since Nimes in 2021 (9th).
Soudal is trying to up its pace: it’s the 2nd top 10 for them this year, after Fabio Jakobsen finished 4th on day 3.
By stage 10, they had won at least once in each of the last 10 editions. The last time they failed to win a stage in the first 10 days of racing, was back in 2012, when they finished the Tour without a success.

15: ALL-TERRAIN BARGUIL
Warren Barguil was first at the Col de la Croix, his 15th KOM conquered at the Tour. He scored them in all the possible ways:
• Hors catégorie: 5
• Cat. 1: 3
• Cat. 2: 3
• Cat. 3: 2
• Cat. 4: 2
Among this year’s entrants, Barguil is in 4th place for career KOMs:
• Julian Alaphilippe 18
• Rafal Majka and Neilson Powless 16
• Warren Barguil 15

9: HOLDING ON TO THE POLKA-DOT
9th polka-dot jersey for Neilson Powless, the same, among this year’s entrants of Simon Geschke.
Only four riders in the peloton have more:
• Benoit Cosnefroy 16
• Rafal Majka 14
• Warren Barguil 13
• Julian Alaphilippe 12

16: ONE MORE
Jonas Vingegaard takes his 16th Maillot Jaune, joining Maurice De Waele (winner in 1929) at the 38th all-time spot for stages in the lead in the Tour’s history. Among the Dane’s direct rivals, Tadej Pogacar has 21 yellow jerseys.

110. Tour de France Etappe 10

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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.

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8: PUY DE CANADA
Canada is the 8th nation to conquer Puy de Dôme. Spaniards remain the most dominant with 5 wins.
Then, Italians and Dutch riders took two wins each, and Puy de Dôme crowned riders from Belgium, Denmark, France, Switzerland and Canada once.

23.7 KM/H: POGACAR FLIES ON THE PUY DE DÔME
According to NTT Data, Tadej Pogacar was the strongest rider up the 13.3km of ascent up Puy de Dôme (average gradient: 7.7%) with a speed of 23.7km/h, much faster than Michael Woods’ winning average of 19.8km/h to cap off his efforts at the front of the race all day long.
The Slovenian 2-time winner of the Tour unleashed his power on the steeper sections of the ascent, with a speed of 18.2km/h in the last 5km (11% gradient on average). His closest rival, Jonas Vingegaard, did 17.8km/h on the same segment.

17: THEY ARE SO CLOSE!
17” seconds between Maillot Jaune Jonas Vingegaard and 2nd Tadej Pogacar: the smallest gap at the 9th stage since 2016, when Chris Froome led with 16” on Adam Yates (after the Andorre stage).
Last year, after the 9th stage (Châtel), Pogacar led with 39” over Vingegaard.
These 17” are the smallest gap ever between this Tour’s duellers when they have occupied the first and second spot in the GC.

50%: HALF OF THE YELLOWS
72 stages since the start of the 2020 edition, which marked the debut for Tadej Pogacar, with Jonas Vingegaard joining one year later.
Since then, half of the yellow jerseys went to these two, 36 out of 72: 21 for Tadej Pogacar, 15 for Jonas Vingegaard. Primoz Roglic wore the yellow jersey 11 times in 2020.

15: HEY GERAINT!
15th stage in the lead for Jonas Vingegaard: he joins at the 39th all-time spot Lucien Van Impe (winner in 1976), Pedro Delgado (1988) and Geraint Thomas (2018).
36: OLD? WHO?
Michael Woods is the first 36 year-old to conquer a summit finish at the Tour since 2015 (Joaquim Rodriguez at Plateau de Beille).

3: FEELING AT HOME IN FRANCE
Michael Woods obtained all his 3 wins this year in France: before this stage, the 3rd stage and final classification of the Route d’Occitanie, last June.
Curiously also last year he had won the 3rd stage and final classification of the Route d’Occitanie.

3: CANADIAN WINNERS
Michael Woods becomes the 3rd Canadian to win at the Tour after Steve Bauer (Machecoul 1988) and Hugo Houle (Foix 2022).

16,000: AMATEURS OVERCOME THE MOUNTAINS OF THE TOUR
A peloton of 16,000 riders, amateurs and cycling lovers, participated today in L’Étape du Tour de France. They had the privilege to ride on roads closed to the traffic, like the professional peloton, as they took on 157 kilometres from Annemasse to Morzine, with 4,100m of elevation. The riders of the Tour de France 2023 will face the same challenges on July 15th, as they take on stage 14. Head to the official website of the event for more info.

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Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat – Puy de Dôme – 184 Km

1 WOODS Michael CAN ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 04:19:41
2 LATOUR Pierre FRA TOTALENERGIES 00:28
3 MOHORIC Matej SLO BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:35
4 JORGENSON Matteo USA MOVISTAR TEAM 00:36
5 BERTHET Clément FRA AG2R CITROEN TEAM 00:55
6 POWLESS Neilson USA EF EDUCATION – EASYPOST 01:23
7 LUTSENKO Alexey KAZ ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 01:39
8 WILSLY Gregaard Jonas DEN UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 01:58
9 BURGAUDEAU Mathieu FRA TOTALENERGIES 02:16
10 DE LA CRUZ David ESP ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 02:34
11 IZAGIRRE INSAUSTI Gorka ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 04:57
12 CAMPENAERTS Victor BEL LOTTO DSTNY 05:25
13 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 08:19
14 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 08:27
15 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 09:10
16 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 09:10
17 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 09:19
18 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 09:26
19 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 09:33
20 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 09:44
21 GALL Felix AUT AG2R CITROEN TEAM 09:54

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 38:37:46
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 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 04:39
6 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:44
7 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 05:26
8 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 06:01
9 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 06:45
10 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 06:58
11 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 07:37
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
17 MARTIN Guillaume FRA COFIDIS 11:12
18 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 14:04
19 CASTROVIEJO Jonathan ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 16:05
20 MADOUAS Valentin FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 18:56

Spektakel am Puy de Dome: Jai Hindely verliert ein paar Sekunden, bleibt aber auf Rang 3 der Gesamtwertung der Tour de France

Mit dem Puy de Dome kehrte nach 35 Jahren heute einer der ikonischen Anstiege der Tour ins Programm zurück. Eine große Fluchtgruppe setzte sich früh vom Feld ab und hatte schnell einen Vorsprung von mehr als 10 Minuten. Damit war auch klar, dass der Etappensieg unter den Ausreißern zu finden sein würde. Am Ende holte sich M. Woods den Sieg, während dahinter eine weitere Schlacht der Favoriten um den Gesamtsieg entbrannte. Jai Hindley befand sich in einer kleinen Gruppe am Beginn des härtesten Teils des Schlussanstieges etwa 4 km vor dem Ziel. Einen Kilometer später kam er in Schwierigkeiten und musste von der 5-Mann-Gruppe der Favoriten abreißen lassen. Er fand aber einen guten Rhythmus und konnte seine direkten Konkurrenten immer im Blickfeld halten. T. Pogacar war heute der stärkste und distanzierte J. Vingegaard um 8 Sekunden. Jai verlor auf den Slowenen 1:14 und verteidigte damit seinen 3. Rang in der Gesamtwertung.

Von der Ziellinie
“Es war ein harter Tag und ein brutaler Schlussanstieg, steil und ohne Möglichkeit, sich zu verstecken. Die Temperaturen haben das Rennen noch schwieriger gemacht und ich habe am Puy de Dome gelitten. Heute war nicht mein bester Tag und ich habe gespürt, dass ich mein eigenes Rennen fahren muss. Ich habe nicht versucht, so lange wie möglich dranzubleiben, sondern habe die Gruppe ziehen lassen und bin meinen eigenen Rhythmus gefahren. Das hat gut funktioniert und ich bin mit dem Ergebnis eigentlich recht zufrieden.” – Jai Hindley

“Es ist immer schwierig, nach ein paar Flachetappen am Ende den Rhythmus für so einen harten Anstieg zu finden. Die Jungs haben aber wieder einen tollen Job gemacht, um Jai in den letzten Anstieg zu bringen. Dort ging es heute einfach nur um die Beine. Jai hatte nicht seinen besten Tag, aber er ist immer noch ein sehr gutes Rennen gefahren. Sein Rhythmus war gut und er konnte den Rückstand in Grenzen halten. Wir sind immer noch absolut im Soll und freuen uns jetzt auf den ersten Ruhetag.” – Christian Pömer, Sportlicher Leiter

Woods conquers the iconic volcano

Michael Woods won stage 9 to the Puy de Dôme from a breakaway that went from the gun. The duel between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard took place in the last 1.5km of racing. The Slovenian reclaimed 8 seconds but the Dane retained the yellow jersey.

14 RIDERS IN THE LEAD

169 riders took the start of stage 9 in Raymond Poulidor’s village Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat at 13.41. 14 riders took off quickly: Clément Berthet (AG2R-Citroën), Michael Woods and Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech), Matteo Jorgenson and Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), Pierre Latour and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies), David De La Cruz and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny), Jonas Abrahamsen and Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X). The peloton chased hard for a while but gave up at km 20 when they brought Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) and Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) back. The time difference was 6’ at the intermediate sprint of lake of Vassivière (km 30.4) where Abrahamsen anticipated his breakaway companions.

JORGENSON ON THE MOVE
A time gap of 10’50’’ was posted atop côte de Felletin (km 74.8) where Powless passed first. The American was back on his mission to win the polka dot jersey this year. It was 11’40’’ when Boivin was the first rider to escape from the front group. He was reeled in after four kilometres alone in the lead. His initiative was followed by several skirmishes. Jorgenson road away 47km before the end. Mohoric, Burgaudeau, Powless and De La Cruz chased him down. They were fifteen seconds behind when De La Cruz had to stop and get a new bike because of a mechanical.

POGACAR GAINS 8 SECONDS
With 3km to go, Jorgenson was 1’20’’ ahead as Mohoric distanced his two companions. Woods made it across by himself and overhauled the Slovenian before the American. He rode the last 450 metres by himself to become the first non-European winner at Puy de Dôme. Pogacar sped up with 1.5km to go. Vingegaard reacted but the white jersey managed to distance the yellow jersey 600 metres before the line. Pogacar reclaimed eight seconds but Vingegaard retained the overall lead by 17 seconds before the first rest day.

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2: THE SECOND FOR PEDERSEN
Second win at the Tour for Mads Pedersen after Saint-Etienne last year.
This is his 4th win of the season, the first after 58 days, the previous one being the Napoli stage at the Giro d’Italia.
…and it’s as well a win in his last 4 Grand Tours run after 3 stages in the Vuelta 2022, and the aforementioned wins at the Tour 2022 and Giro 2023, for a total of 6.
He needs to go to the Vuelta to match Alessandro Petacchi’s victories in five Grand Tours in a row from Vuelta 2002 until Giro 2004.

34: GOODBYE MARK!
Mark Cavendish leaves the Tour for the 7th time in 14 participations.
According to NTT Data, he crashed at 44.9 km/h with 63km to go. At 38 years old, the Manx missile announced he will retire at the end of the season. He will thus go down in history as the most successful sprinter in the Tour.
Since his first participation in 2007, Cavendish completed 206 Tour stages, won 34 of those (16.5%) and finished in the top-3 43 times (20.9%). He took his first stage win in Châteauroux (stage 5 of the Tour 2008) and the last one in Carcassonne (stage 13 of the Tour 2021).
This sadly happens on the eve of the anniversaries of his first (9th of July 2008) and last (9th of July 2021) wins at the Tour.

62+62: DENMARK GOES IN PAIRS
After today’s stage, Denmark counts 62 Grand Tour stage wins and 62 leaders’ jersey.
This is the breakdown of this curious pair:
• Stages: 26 at the Tour, 14 at the Giro, 22 at the Vuelta.
• Jerseys: 57 at the Tour, 5 at the Vuelta.

47: THE TOUR SPEEDS UP!
After passing the 45 km/h mark yesterday (45,013 km/h), the Tour today recorded 47,704 km/h.
Last year the Tour sped up in the 5th and 6th stages, with 48,661 km/h and 49,376 km/h, the latter being the highest value in road stages of the last edition.

15: AIMING AT THE TOP
15th stage podium at the Tour for Jasper Philipsen: 5 wins, 6 second places, 4 third places.
Since last year’s Gooikse Pijl, Philipsen has a remarkable record when finishing in the top-10: 11 wins, 6 second places and just one 4th place.

20: VAN AERT MAKES IT 20
20th stage podium for Wout van Aert at the Tour: 9 wins, 7 second places, 4 third places.
Going from 19 to 20 is no easy feat: among this Tour’s starters only two riders count more stage podiums: Peter Sagan (47) and retired Mark Cavendish (43).
No less than three riders are at 19: Alexander Kristoff, Edvald Boasson Hagen and Tadej Pogacar.

1266: TURGIS’ HIGHS AND LOWS
Before today, Anthony Turgis had conquered one KOM at the Tour de France: Col de Peyresourde (17th stage, 2021). He went on to tame three categorised climbs at much lower altitudes:

• Côte de Champs-Romain (303m)
• Côte de Masmont (353m)
• Côte de Condat-sur-Vienne (289m)

These three climbs together would amount to an altitude of 945m… That’s still 324m lower than Peyresourde.

6: (NOT) ALL IN
The Tour was heading for a low record of 4 abandons in the first 8 stages, until all-time joint record holder of stage wins, Mark Cavendish, crashed, becoming the 5th retirement this year, with Steff Cras being the 6th.
The all-time record low was set in 2016, when Michael Morkov was the first retirement, in stage 8.

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Libourne – Limoges – 201 Km

1 PEDERSEN Mads DEN LIDL – TREK 04:12:26
2 PHILIPSEN Jasper BEL ALPECIN-DECEUNINCK 00:00
3 VAN AERT Wout BEL JUMBO-VISMA 00:00
4 GROENEWEGEN Dylan NED TEAM JAYCO ALULA 00:00
5 EEKHOFF Nils NED TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
6 COQUARD Bryan FRA COFIDIS 00:00
7 DE BUYST Jasper BEL LOTTO DSTNY 00:00
8 TILLER Rasmus NOR UNO-X PRO CYCLING TEAM 00:00
9 STRONG Corbin NZL ISRAEL – PREMIER TECH 00:00
10 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:00
11 LOUVEL Matis FRA TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 00:00
12 ARANBURU DEBA Alex ESP MOVISTAR TEAM 00:00
13 WRIGHT Fred GBR BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 00:00
14 BOL Cees NED ASTANA QAZAQSTAN TEAM 00:00
15 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 00:00
16 SAGAN Peter SVK TOTALENERGIES 00:00

Gesamt:

1 VINGEGAARD Jonas DEN JUMBO-VISMA 34:09:38
2 POGAČAR Tadej SLO UAE TEAM EMIRATES 00:25
3 HINDLEY Jai AUS BORA – HANSGROHE 01:34
4 RODRIGUEZ CANO Carlos ESP INEOS GRENADIERS 03:30
5 YATES Adam GBR UAE TEAM EMIRATES 03:40
6 YATES Simon GBR TEAM JAYCO ALULA 04:01
7 GAUDU David FRA GROUPAMA – FDJ 04:03
8 BARDET Romain FRA TEAM DSM – FIRMENICH 04:43
9 PIDCOCK Thomas GBR INEOS GRENADIERS 04:43
10 KUSS Sepp USA JUMBO-VISMA 05:28
11 O’CONNOR Ben AUS AG2R CITROEN TEAM 06:10
12 BILBAO LOPEZ Pello ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 06:10
13 BUCHMANN Emanuel GER BORA – HANSGROHE 06:32
14 LANDA Mikel ESP BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS 06:36
15 MEINTJES Louis RSA INTERMARCHÉ – CIRCUS – WANTY 06:52

Jai Hindley weiter auf Rang drei der Gesamtwertung nach hektischem Finale auf der 8. Etappe der Tour de France

Am Papier war die 8. Etappe der Tour de France nicht die schwierigste, allerdings konnte auf einem sehr welligen Schlussteil ein hektisches Finale in Limoges erwartet werden. Drei Fahrer bildeten die Gruppe des Tages, doch auf den letzten 30 km drückte vor allem Jumbo-Visma im Feld auf das Tempo. Der letzte Ausreißer wurde etwa 8 km vor dem Ziel gestellt, während auch das Feld durch die zahlreichen Anstiege immer kleiner wurde. BORA – hansgrohe arbeitete hart, um Jai Hindley in guter Position und aus alles Schwierigkeiten herauszuhalten. Am Ende holte M. Pedersen den Tagessieg, während Jai Hindley das Ziel in der ersten Gruppe erreichte.

Von der Ziellinie
“Der Beginn der Etappe war extrem hart, denn viele Fahrer wollten in einer Fluchtgruppe ihre Chance suchen. Als die drei Fahrer dann weg waren, hat man schnell gemerkt, wer das Rennen kontrollieren will. Es war dann organisierter, aber im Finale dennoch sehr hart und hektisch. Die Jungs haben einen tollen Job gemacht, Jai immer vorne zu halten. Wir sind gut durchgekommen, das war heute unser Ziel. Wir können also zufrieden sein.” – Rolf Aldag, Sportlicher Leiter

Pedersen powers to second Tour de France victory

On the sad farewell day of Mark Cavendish who crashed out, Mads Pedersen powered to his second Tour de France victory in Limoges one year after he opened his account in Saint-Etienne. Jasper Philipsen and Wout van Aert settled down for second and third. Jonas Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey.

DECLERCQ, DELAPLACE AND TURGIS AT THE FRONT

The start proper of stage 8 was given at 12.43 to 172 riders. Lots of skirmishes took place in the first 20km but they were unsuccessful until Tim Declercq (Soudal-Quick Step) managed to go clear. He was joined at km 22 by Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) and Anthony Delaplace (Arkea-Samsic). A maximum time difference of 5’15’’ was record before the intermediate sprint at Tocane-Saint-Apre (km 79). Delaplace outsprinted Turgis and Philipsen proved once again to be the fastest as he fulfilled his green jersey ambitions by winning the sprint of the peloton for fourth place. His team-mate Mathieu van der Poel tried to surprise the field as he attacked right after the intermediate sprint. Philipsen, Mark Cavendish, Bryan Coquard and Biniam Girmay were among the fifteen riders who accompanied him. It forced Jumbo-Visma to chase hard as Wout van Aert had made no secret on his stage win ambitions in Limoges. It was back together after a couple of kilometres.

CAVENDISH OUT OF HIS LAST TOUR DE FRANCE

Lidl-Trek started to make the race harder at the head of the peloton with one and half hour remaining. Cavendish crashed out with 64km to go. Cofidis came in help to pace the peloton that was timed 2’30’’ adrift before the last hour of racing. Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step) attacked from the pack with 36km remaining. He stayed in between for 14 kilometres. The deficit of the peloton was one minute at the 20-km to go mark. Turgis rode away solo in the côte de Masmont 16km before the end.

SKJELMOSE PUTS PEDERSEN INTO ORBIT

Declercq tried to make it back to the front but was swallowed by the pack 10km before the end. Turgis was reeled with 8km remaining. His team-mate Steff Cras crashed with 6km to go while Simon Yates and Mikel Landa also went down and reached the finish line with a 47’’ deficit. The Belgian, 13th overall, was forced to pull out. Mattias Skjelmose strongly seized the command of the peloton at the entrance of Limoges. The Danish champion put his team-mate and compatriot Mads Pedersen into orbit but the competition was fierce in the uphill stretch. The former world champion looked to have it when he passed Van Aert who was led out by Christophe Laporte but Van der Poel took Philipsen to the front and Pedersen had to jump to the finish line to fend off the green jersey holder. This is the 26th Danish stage win at the Tour de France, the second for Pedersen himself who already bagged a Giro d’Italia stage victory in Naples this year.

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TOUR DE FRANCE 2023 – STAGE 7
MONT-DE-MARSAN – BORDEAUX

3X7: A WINNER’S WEEK
Jasper Philipsen is the first Belgian who wins 3 stages in the first 7 days of a Tour since 1976: Freddy Maertens (prologue, Angers, Le Touquet); plus, Maertens made it four winning on the 8th day, in Mulhouse. Those were 2 time trials and 2 road stages.
The last Belgian with 3 road wins in the first 7 days was Eric Leman in 1971 (2 half-stages, stage 7).
Excluding half-stages and time trials, no Belgian had ever achieved Philipsen’s feat in the Tour de France.
Louis Mottiat won 4 of the first 7 stages in 1921 but across a timespan of 12 days.

74,7: CAV’ MEANS SPEED
Mark Cavendish hit the highest top speed in Bordeaux with a kick at 74.7km/h with 300 metres to go. The Manx missile was already the fastest in the finale of stage 3, when he did 73.3km/h in Bayonne (6th).

5&4: NAILING THE WINS
This was the 5th win at the Tour for Jasper Philipsen, but, considering only the Bunch sprints, it was his 4th in a row.

3: THE SPRINTER’S WEEK
Winning 3 Sprints in the first week is something that wasn’t recorded since 2017. These are the last riders who managed this feat before Jasper Philipsen:
• Alessandro Petacchi (2003)
• Robbie McEwen (2006)
• Peter Sagan (2012)
• Marcel Kittel (2014, 2017)
• Mark Cavendish (2016)
The last rider with four wins in the first week is Mario Cipollini in 1999.

3: A PODIUM FOR ERITREA
Biniam Girmay is the first athlete from Eritrea that scores a podium placement in a Tour stage. Up to now the best Eritrean result had been a 7th place by Daniel Teklehaimanot (Gap 2015, Chalet Reynard 2016).

43: CAVENDISH JOINS KELLY
43rd stage podium for Mark Cavendish: 34 wins, 4 second places, 5 third places. Matches Sean Kelly at the 7th all-time spot. The record belongs to Eddy Merckx: 63 stage podiums.
This is the first stage podium for Cavendish since his 3rd place in Paris, back in 2021.

13: TOP-50 FOR VINGEGAARD
13th stage in the lead at the Tour for Jonas Vingegaard, the same of Tour winners René Pottier, Gustave Garrigou and Goerges Speicher. Among these, only the last one wore the Maillot Jaune, the others were leaders, and winners, before the jersey was introduced (1906, 1911).
Vingegaard now enters the all-time top-50, placing at the 49th spot in this statistic. All-time leader is Eddy Merckx with 111 stages in the lead.

45,013: THE FASTEST ONE
At 45,013 kph this has been the fastest stage in this Tour, and the fastest, among road stages, since Cahors 2022, run at 48,684 kph.
And there’s more: after covering the first 20 kms at 33,1 kph, the riders made up for that riding the last 20 kms at the astonishing speed of 58,8 kph!

40: A NOBLE FEAT FOR GUGLIELMI
Simon Guglielmi covered 97km at 40.8 kph before he was joined by Nans Peters and Pierre Latour at the front of the race. He rapidly opened a maximum gap of 7’16“, at km 18, but the sprint teams reacted to control his 2nd breakaway attempt in the Tour 2023.

148: THE REST OF THE WARRIOR
After his two days on the move in the Pyrenees, Wout van Aert finished 148th in Bordeaux. He finished further behind in the standings on two occasions only in the Tour de France (82 stages completed): 164th of stage 12 in 2019 and 168th of stage 3 in 2020.