Tour de France stage 10 LIVE: Frantic start sets tone for breakaway day

107.4km to go: Kasper Asgreen wins the day’s solely intermediate dash. He will not care for the inexperienced jersey factors, however there can be a pleasant prime heading to the Dane’s checking account. 

108km to go: Hats off to Stefan Küng. The Groupama-FDJ rider has given a monster tow to hold his chief David Gaudu again into the peloton. Romain Bardet has additionally rejoined the group. Panic over, les français. 

110km to go: The frantic start is but to calm down. We’re about to move onto the third categorised climb of the day, the Col de la Croix Saint-Robert. 

112km to go: There’s a seven-man entrance group with round a one-minute benefit over the peloton. 

They are: Esteban Chaves (EF Education-EasyPost), Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious), Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek), Georg Zimmermann (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Nick Schultz (Israel-Premier Tech)  and Warren Barguil (Arkéa Samsic). 

117km to go: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), one of many pre-race favourites for the stage win, can be within the trailing group with Gaudu and Bardet. 

There’s a hearsay circulating across the peloton that that is the Belgian’s remaining day on the Tour de France. He and his associate expect their second little one, and the beginning is due any day now. 

121km to go: The common velocity to date is 41.2km/h. So a lot for a relaxed one after the remaining day. 

Krists Neilands was a kind of who animated this stage early on. Here he’s in motion, stringing out the peloton. 

126km to go: The Gaudu-Bardet group is now two minutes behind the yellow jersey. This might find yourself being a catastrophe for the Frenchmen.  

131km to go: There’s now two males off the entrance – Julian Alaphilippe and Matej Mohorič. 

137.5km to go: Some of the top-10 contenders are struggling to maintain up with the frantic start. Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich) and David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) are each out the again. 

143km to go: You’d assume you had been watching a criterium at Crystal Palace right here. Moves are flying out of the peloton, however they’re all being stored on a good leash in the mean time. 

146km to go: There’s clearly some recent legs within the peloton, as a result of the racing is relentless. Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar have now left the entrance group on the street and dropped again. We’re nonetheless ready on a transparent breakaway to kind. 

148km to go: We’re about to achieve the foot of the category-three Col de Guéry. Here’s the climb particulars, courtesy of Strava, and the KOM time to beat, held by Valentin. 

152km to go: The GC males, for some purpose, have bridged throughout to the breakaway. The hole to the peloton is 47 seconds. Ineos Grenadiers have missed the break up. 

159km to go: The gruppetto is forming. Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal Quick-Step), sufferer of some nasty street rash on stage 4, is a kind of out the again. As is birthday boy Caleb Ewan (Lotto Dstny). It’s going to be an extended day for the sprinters. 

161.5km to go: Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) and Krists Neilands (Isreal-Premier Tech) have kick-started an assault on the opening category-three climb. Three others have joined them, together with Ineos Grenadiers rider Michal Kwiatkowski. 

166km to go: The battle for the break has begun. There’s numerous motion on the entrance of the pack, however no transfer has caught but. 

Stage 10 will get underway

We’re off! Christian Prudhomme waves his yellow flag and the race start is given. 

It is a sizzling day in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, the place floor temperatures are set to exceed 40 levels celsius. Spare a thought for the riders, and my colleagues on the roadside. 

10 minutes to go till kilometre zero. 

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Sign-on has began in Vulcania forward of stage 10. 

“What’s Vulcania?” I hear you name. “That’s not a place in France.” 

Well, you are proper. Vulcania is an amusement park, or because the vacationer indicators say, the European Park of Volcanism. It opened in 2001 and is jam-packed with volcano-themed instructional enjoyable. 

Of course, the WorldTour peloton is not any stranger to amusement parks. In February this 12 months, stage six of the UAE Tour started at Abu Dhabi’s Warner Bros World – the world’s largest indoor theme park, which value $1 billion to develop. 

There’s an hour and a half till stage 10 begins. Don’t neglect to take a look at our watch the Tour de France information, so you possibly can tune into the motion reside, wherever you might be on the planet.

A gradual start? 

Here’s an fascinating stat for you. This 12 months’s Tour de France has set off slower than final 12 months’s version. 

The common velocity of the yellow jersey wearer Jonas Vingegaard is 42.1km/h over the primary 9 phases. After the identical time final 12 months, the race chief Tadej Pogačar averaged 44.5km/h.

This is little doubt a symptom of the robust Grand Départ held within the Basque Country, the place the primary two phases clocked round 3,000m of climbing every. 

Stage 4 to Nogaro – “the most boring Tour de France stage for a long time,” in response to Jasper Philipsen – additionally stored the typical velocity down. 

Tour de France Femmes unveils Rotterdam Grand Départ for 2024

In case you missed it yesterday, subsequent 12 months’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will start in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. 

The occasion will start on 12 August 2024 – in order to not conflict with the Paris Olympics – and the primary three of the eight phases will happen within the Netherlands. 

“The last few seasons have been a tale of Dutch ascendancy,” stated race director Marion Rousse in a press assertion. “Starting from the home of these champions will kindle a great popular celebration. Expect their supporters to turn our in force.”

It would be the first time the race has left France because it was added to the calendar final summer season. It can even be the primary version that will not embrace Annemiek van Vleuten, winner of the current Giro d’Italia Donne, who’s scheduled to retire on the finish of the season.

Full particulars of the route can be revealed on 25 October. 

Here’s how the overall classification stands going into right now’s stage: 

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) 38-37-46
2. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates), at 17s
3. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), at 2-40
4. Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers), at 4-22
5. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) at 4-39
6. Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla), at 4-44
7. Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers), at 5-26
8. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), at 6-01
9. Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) at 6-45
10. Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich) at 6-58

Barring catastrophe for any of the 10 riders, I believe it will look the identical come the top of the day. 

To discover out who’s main the opposite competitions on the race, go to our up-to-date classifications tracker. 

Stage 10: Vulcania > Issoire (167.2km) 

Before the stage will get underway at 12:20 BST (13:20 CET), let’s check out what’s in retailer for the riders. 

Stage 10 provides a lumpy profile, with 4 class three climbs, and one class two. The peloton can be climbing from the flag drop, and can be spinning up and down all through the day, with a downhill run-in to the road. 

Expect the GC contenders to mattress in for a relaxed one after the primary relaxation day. If a stage was ever scripted for the breakaway, it is this one.