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Tour de France 2023: Daily stage results and general classification standings

The latest updates on the winners of each stage and the top contenders for the coveted yellow jersey in the 110th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 1 to 23 July.

Jonas Vingegaard celebrates victory in the 2023 Tour de France

Jonas Vingegaard claimed back-to-back Tour de France titles beating main rival Tadej Pogacar into second place in a repeat of the 2022 result.

Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) produced the best result of his career, winning the final stage on his Le Tour debut. He triumphed in a photo finish beating Jasper Philipsen and Dylan Groenewegen into second and third place, respectively.

The 2023 Tour de France , the second and most prestigious Grand Tour of the year in the men’s road cycling season , started in Bilbao on 1 July.

Check out the daily results and the general classification standings after each stage right here.

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Sunday July 23: Stage 21 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Paris Champs-Élysées, 115.1 km

The final stage of the 2023 Tour de France came to a climactic end with Belgium’s Jordi Meeus claiming a surprise victory in a sprint for the line on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

Meeus won by the narrowest of margins in a photo finish edging Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin Deceuninck) and Dylan Groenewegen (Team Jayco Alula) into second and third place, respectively.

Meeus celebrated an emphatic end to his debut while Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard claimed a second consecutive Tour de France title. Vingegaard finished seven minutes, and 29 seconds ahead of Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar with Adam Yates of Great Britain taking third overall.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 21 Results - Sunday 23 July

Saint-quentin-en-yvelines - paris champs-élysées, 115.1 km.

  • Jordi Meeus (BEL, BORA-hansgrohe) 2h 56’13’’
  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) +0"
  • Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Team Jayco-AIUla) +0"
  • Mads Pedersen (DEN, LidI-Trek) +0"
  • Cees Bol (NED, Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0"
  • Biniam Girmay (ER, Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) +0"
  • Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) +0"
  • Søren Wærenskjold (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
  • Corbin Strong (NZ, Israel-Premier Tech) +0"
  • Luca Mozzato (ITA, Arkéa-Samsic) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 21

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 82h 05'42"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +7:29"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +10:56"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +12:23"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +13:17"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +13:27"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +14:44"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +16:09"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +23:08"
  • Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +26:30"

Saturday 22 July: Stage 20 - Belfort - Le Markstein Fellering, medium mountains, 133.5 km

Despite failing to regain the yellow jersey he won in 2020 and 2021, Tadej Pogacar  ended his Tour de France on a high note.

In his last Tour de France mountain stage before retirement, home favourite Thibaut Pinot went on a solo attack to the delight of the French fans.

But the climbing specialist was unable to stay in front with first Tom Pidcock and Warren Barguil catching him before Pogacar made his bid to bridge the gap.

Overall race leader Jonas Vingegaard covered the move with Felix Gall , and the three forged clear on the closing Col du Platzerwase climb.

As things became tactical at the front, the Yates brothers - Adam and Simon - made it a lead group of five.

Vingegaard made his bid for the stage win with 250m to go, but Pogacar was too strong this time with the Dane losing second to Gall on the line.

Pinot received a hero's welcome as he crossed the line in seventh place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 20 Results - Saturday 22 July

Belfort - le markstein fellering, medium mountains, 133.5 km.

  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) 3h 27'18"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +0"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +0"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +0"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +7"
  • Warren Barguil (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +33"
  • Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +33"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +33"
  • Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +50"
  • Rafał Majka (POL, UAE Team Emirates) +50"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 20

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 79h 16'38"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +12:57"

Friday 21 July: Stage 19 - Moirans-en-Montagne - Poligny, hilly, 172.8 km

Matej Mohoric denied Kasper Asgreen a second consecutive win at the 2023 Tour de France after a thrilling photo-finish sprint in Poligny.

The two riders emerged from a three-man breakaway and outsprinted Australia's Ben O'Connor, with Mohoric narrowly beating Asgreen to the finish line.

Throughout the 172.8km stage, there were numerous fragmented attacks across the field, leading to an intense pursuit among different breakaway groups in the final 20km.

Overall leader Jonas Vingegaard finished with the main peloton and kept his seven-and-a-half-minute lead on Tadej Pogacar in the general classification (GC) with just two stages remaining

2023 Tour de France: Stage 19 Results - Friday 21 July

Moirans-en-montagne - poligny, hilly, 172.8km.

  • Matej Mohoric (SLO, Bahrain-Victorious) 3h 31'02"
  • Kasper Asgreen (DEN, Soudal - Quick Step) +0"
  • Ben O'Connor (AUS, AG2R Citroen Team) +4"
  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) +39"
  • Mads Pedersen (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +39"
  • Christophe Laporte (FRA, Jumbo-Visma) +39"
  • Luka Mezgec (SLO, Team Jayco AlUla) +39"
  • Alberto Bettiol (ITA, EF Education-EasyPost) +39"
  • Matteo Trentin (ITA, UAE Team Emirates) +39"
  • Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +39"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 19

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 75h 49'24"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +7:35"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +10:45"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +12:01"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +12:19"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +12:50"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +13:50"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +16:11"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +16:49"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +17:57"

Matej Mohoric crosses the finish line to win stage 19 at the 2023 Tour de France

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 19 - Moirans-En-Montagne to Poligny - France - July 21, 2023 Team Bahrain Victorious' Matej Mohoric crosses the finish line to win stage 19

Thursday 20 July: Stage 18 - Moûtiers - Bourg-en-Bresse, flat, 184.9 km

Kasper Asgreen surprised the sprinters and claimed stage 18 of the Tour de France after a long day in the breakaway.

Following several mountain stages in the Alps, a flatter stage awaited the peloton on Thursday. A breakaway of four rider with Kasper Asgreen , Jonas Abrahamsen , Victor Campenaerts, and later Pascal Eenkhoorn managed to just stay clear of the sprinters that were breathing down their necks on the finish line.

Asgreen of Denmark proved to be the fastest of the riders in the breakaway, and he secured his team Soudal Quick Step their first stage win of this year’s Tour de France.

Jonas VIngegaard held on to the leader's yellow jersey and maintains his 7:35 advantage to Tadej Pogacar .

2023 Tour de France: Stage 18 Results - Thursday 20 July

Moûtiers to bourg-en-bresse, flat, 184.9 km.

  • Kasper Asgreen (DEN, Soudal - Quick Step) 4h 06'48"
  • Pascal Eenkhoorn (NED, Lotto Dstny) +0"
  • Jonas Abrahamsen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
  • Mads Pedersen (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +0"
  • Jordi Meeus (BEL, BORA - hansgrohe) +0"
  • Matteo Trentin (ITA, UAE Team Emirates) +0"
  • Christophe Laporte (FRA, Jumbo-Visma) +0"
  • Luca Mozzato (ITA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 18

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 67h 57'51"

Kasper Asgreen claimed stage 18 of the Tour de France 2023 after a long day in the breakaway.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 18 - Moutiers to Bourg-En-Bresse - France - July 20, 2023 Soudal–Quick-Step's Kasper Asgreen celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 18 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Wednesday 19 July: Stage 17 - Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc - Courchevel, high mountains, 165.7 km

Felix Gall claimed a dramatic queen stage of the Tour de France 2023, where Jonas Vingegaard cracked Tadej Pogacar to gain more than five and a half minutes on the Slovenian. The Dane is now seven minutes and 35 seconds clear in the overall lead, and looks very likely to win his second consecutive Tour de France.

The stage winner Gall attacked his breakaway companions with six kilometres remaining of the final climb Col de la Loze. Simon Yates tried to chase down Gall, but the AG2R Citroën Team rider managed to maintain a small gap to the Brit, and he crossed the finish line solo.

The general classification leader Vingegaard dropped Pogacar 7.5 kilometres from the summit of Col de la Loze, and while the Slovenian tried to limit his losses, last year’s winner did what he could to gain as much time as possible. His lead seems unassailable with four stages remaining.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 17 Results - Wednesday 19 July

Saint-gervais mont-blanc to courchevel, high mountains, 165.7 km.

  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) 4h 49'08"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +34"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +1:38"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +1:52"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +2:09"
  • Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +2:39"
  • Chris Harper (AUS, Team Jayco AlUla) +2:50"
  • Rafał Majka (POL, UAE Team Emirates) +3:43"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:43"
  • Wilco Kelderman (NED, Jumbo-Visma) +3:49"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 17

Felix Gall claimed the biggest victory of his career, as he crossed the finish line first on the queen stage of the Tour de France 2023.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 17 - Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc to Courchevel - France - July 19, 2023 AG2R Citroen Team's Felix Gall celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 17 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Tuesday 18 July: Stage 16 - Passy - Combloux, individual time trial, 22.4 km

Jonas Vingegaard took a big step toward reclaiming his Tour de France title, as the Danish rider triumphed on this year’s lone time trial.

The yellow jersey wearer gained an astonishing one minute and 38 seconds to his biggest rival Tadej Pogacar , who finished second on the stage.

Before Wednesday’s queen stage, the Dane now has an advantage of 1:48 to his Slovenian rival.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 16 Results - Tuesday 18 July

Passy to combloux, individual time trial, 22.4 km.

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 32:26
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +1:38"
  • Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +2:51"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +2:55"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +2:58"
  • Rémi Cavagna (FRA, Soudal - Quick Step )+3:06"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:12"
  • Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +3:21"
  • Mads Pedersen (DEN Lidl - Trek) +3:31"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +3:31

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 16

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 63h 06'53"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +1:48"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +8:52"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +8:57"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +11:15"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +12:56"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +13:06"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +13:46"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +17:38"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +18:19"

Jonas Vingegaard won the lone time trial of the Tour de France 2023 on stage 16.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 16 - Passy to Combloux - France - July 18, 2023 Team Jumbo–Visma's Jonas Vingegaard wearing the yellow jersey crosses the finish line after stage 16 REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Sunday 16 July: Stage 15 - Les Gets les Portes du Soleil - Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc, mountain stage, 179 km

Wout Poels took the first Tour de France stage win of his career, as he crossed the finish line alone at Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc on stage 15.

The 2016 Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner dropped his breakaway companions Wout van Aert and Marc Soler 11 kilometres from the finish and managed to maintain his advantage.

Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar fought another alpine duel, but neither rider could get the better of the other, and they crossed the finish line together.

The yellow leader’s jersey therefore remains with Vingegaard. His advantage to Tadej Pogacar is 10 seconds.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 15 Results - Sunday 16 July

Les gets les portes du soleil to saint-gervais mont-blanc, mountain stage, 179 km.

  • Wout Poels (NED, Bahrain - Victorious) 4:40:45
  • Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +2:08"
  • Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA, TotalEnergies) +3:00"
  • Lawson Craddock (USA, Team Jayco AlUla) +3:10"
  • Mikel Landa (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +3:14"
  • Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +3:14"
  • Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +3:32"
  • Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +3:43"
  • Simon Guglielmi (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +3:59"
  • Warren Barguil (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +4:20

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 15

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 62h 34'17"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +10"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +5:21"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +5:40"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +6:38"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +9:16"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +10:11"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +10:48"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +14:07"
  • Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +14:18"

Wout Poels claimed the first Tour de France stage win of his career.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 15 - Les Gets Les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc - France - July 16, 2023 Team Bahrain Victorious' Wout Poels celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 15 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Saturday 15 July: Stage 14 - Annemasse - Morzine Les Portes du Soleil, mountain stage, 151.8 km

Carlos Rodriguez claimed the biggest victory of his career, marking the second consecutive win for his team INEOS Grenadiers, on stage 14 of the 2023 Tour de France after crossing the finish line alone in Morzine.

The 22-year-old Spaniard took advantage of the mind games between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, who were the strongest riders during the ascent on the Col de Joux de Plan.

The Slovenian secured second place, beating his Danish rival, but now trails Vingegaard, who picked up an extra bonus second, by 10 seconds.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 14 Results - Saturday 15 July

Annemasse - morzine les portes du soleil, mountain stage, 151.8 km.

  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) 3:58:45
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +5"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +5"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +10"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +57"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +1:46"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +1:46"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +3'19"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +3'21"
  • Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +5'57"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 12

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 46h 34'27"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +4:43"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, BORA - hansgrohe) +4:44"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +5:20"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +8:15"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +8:32"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +8:51"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +12:26"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +12:56"

Carlos Rodriguez celebrates as he crosses the finish line in Morzine Les Portes Du Soleil to win stage 14 at the 2023 Tour de France

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 14 - Annemasse to Morzine Les Portes Du Soleil - France - July 15, 2023 Ineos Grenadiers' Carlos Rodriguez celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 14

Friday 14 July: Stage 13 - Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne - Grand Colombier, mountain stage, 137.8 km

Michael Kwiatkowski of INEOS Grenadiers secured a remarkable solo victory on stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France, conquering the iconic Grand Colombier.

The Polish rider made a decisive move with 11km to go annd successfully maintained his lead over the pursuing riders, securing his third career stage win at La Grande Boucle.

Tadej Pogacar launched a late but blistering attack to finish third and narrow the gap to overall leader Jonas Vingegaard , with the Danish rider now leading by just nine seconds.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 13 Results - Friday 14 July

Châtillon-sur-chalaronne - grand colombier, mountain stage, 137.8 km.

  • Michal Kwiatkowski (POL, INEOS Grenadiers) 3:17:33
  • Maxim Van Gils (BEL, Lotto Dstny) +47"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +50"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +54"
  • Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) 1'03"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) 1'05"
  • James Shaw (GBR, EF Education-EasyPost) 1'05"
  • Harold Tejada (COL, Astana Qazaqstan Team) 1:05"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) 1'14"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 1'18"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +9"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:51"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +4:22"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +5:03"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +5:04"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious) +5:25"
  • Tom Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +5:35"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +6:52"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +7:11"

Michal Kwiatkowski celebrates win on stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 13 - Chatillon-Sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier - France - July 14, 2023 Ineos Grenadiers' Michal Kwiatkowski celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 13

Thursday 13 July: Stage 12 - Roanne - Belleville-en-Beaujolais, medium mountains, 168.8km

Ion Izagirre of Cofidis claimed a stunning solo victory on stage 12 of the Tour de France 2023. The 34-year-old Spaniard made a daring move from the breakaway 30 kilometres before the finish line and successfully fended off the chasing pack to claim his second stage win in the prestigious French grand tour. The Basque won his first stage in 2016.

Mathieu Burgaudeau took the second spot on the stage, while Matteo Jorgenson was third.

Jonas Vingegaard maintained his hold on the yellow leader's jersey, with the Danish rider maintaining a 17-second lead over  Tadej Pogacar in second place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 12 Results - Thursday 13 July

Roanne to belleville-en-beaujolais, medium mountains, 168.8km.

  • Ion Izagirre (ESP, Cofidis) 3:51:42
  • Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA, TotalEnergies) +58"
  • Matteo Jorgenson (USA, Movistar Team) +58"
  • Tiesj Benoot (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +1:06"
  • Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team +1:11"
  • Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +1:13"
  • Guillaume Martin (FRA, Cofidis) +1:13"
  • Dylan Teuns (BEL, Israel - Premier Tech) +1:27"
  • Ruben Guerreiro (POR, Movistar Team) +1:27"
  • Victor Campenaerts (BEL, Lotto Dstny) +3:02"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +17"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:40"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious +4:36"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +4:41"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +4:46"
  • Tom Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +5:28"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama) +6:01"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +6:47"

Ion Izagirre claimed stage 12 of the Tour de France 2023.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 12 - Roanne to Belleville-En-Beaujolais - France - July 13, 2023 Cofidis' Ion Izagirre Insausti celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 12 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Wednesday 12 July: Stage 11 - Clermont-Ferrand - Moulins, flat, 179.8km

Jasper Philipsen secured his fourth stage win of this year’s Tour de France, as the Belgian once again proved to be the fastest rider of the peloton in a bunch sprint.

The green jersey wearer Philpsen won ahead of Dylan Groenewegen and Phil Bauhaus .

Jonas Vingegaard is still in the yellow leader’s jersey, after a stage that saw no changes in the top ten of the general classification.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 11 Results - Wednesday 12 July

Clermont-ferrand to moulins, flat, 179.8km.

  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4:01:07
  • Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Team Jayco AlUla) +0"
  • Phil Bauhaus (GER, Bahrain - Victorious) +0"
  • Bryan Coquard (FRA, Cofidis) +0"
  • Alexander Kristoff (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
  • Peter Sagan (SLK, TotalEnergies) +0"
  • Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +0"
  • Sam Welsford (AUS, Team dsm - firmenich) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 11

  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +4:24"

Jasper Philipsen claimed his fourth stage win at the 2023 Tour de France.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 11 - Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins - France - July 12, 2023 Alpecin–Deceuninck's Jasper Philipsen celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 11 REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

Tuesday 11 July: Stage 10 - Vulcania - Issoire, medium mountains, 167.2km

Pello Bilbao of Bahrain-Victorious claimed the first Spanish Tour de France stage win in five years as he outsprinted his breakaway companions in a thriliing finale on stage 10.

Prior to the sprint finish, Krists Neilands of Israel-Premier Tech was caught just three kilometres from the finish line after the Latvian tried to go solo 30 kilometres earlier.

Several riders from the breakaway attacked in the final, where Bilbao broke free with Georg Zimmermann of Intermarché-Circus-Wanty. Ben O'Connor of AG2R Citroën Team managed to bridge accross right before Bilbao launched his sprint.

Neither Zimmerman nor O’Connor could respond, and the 33-year-old Spaniard could take his first-ever Tour de France stage win. A victory he dedicated to his former teammate Gino Mäder, who tragically lost his life last month after a crash at the Tour de Suisse.

In the general classification, Jonas Vingegaard crossed the finish line alongside the other favourites, and he retains his 17-second advantage over Tadej Pogacar in second place. Bilbao advanced from 11 th to fifth position in the overall standings.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 10 Results - Tuesday 11 July

Vulcania to issoire, medium mountains, 167.2km.

  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious 3:52:34
  • Georg Zimmermann (GER, Intermarché - Circus - Wanty) +0"
  • Ben O'Connor (AUS, AG2R Citroën Team) +0"
  • Krists Neilands (LAT, Israel - Premier Tech) +0"
  • Esteban Chaves (COL, EF Education-EasyPost) +0"
  • Antonio Pedrero (ESP, Movistar Team) +3"
  • Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +27"
  • Michał Kwiatkowski (POL, INEOS Grenadiers) +27"
  • Warren Barguil (FRA, Team Arkéa Samsic) +30"
  • Julian Alaphilippe (FRA, Soudal - Quick Step) +32"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 10

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 42h 33'13"
  • Pello Bilbao (ESP, Bahrain - Victorious +4:34"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +4:39"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +4:44"
  • Tom Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +5:26"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +6:45"

Pello Bilbao dedicated his stage win to the late Gino Mäder.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 10 - Vulcania to Issoire - France - July 11, 2023 Team Bahrain Victorious' Pello Bilbao Lopez celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 10 REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Sunday 9 July: Stage 9 - Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Puy de Dôme, 182.4km

The iconic finish at Puy de Dôme , a 13.3 km stretch at 7.7% average gradient, returned to the race for the first time since 1988.

The stage was forecast to be a battle between overall leader Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar but it turned into a heartbreaking loss for Matteo Jorgenson. The U.S. rider who was stung by a wasp and needed to be attended to by the race doctor with 72km to go, produced a brave 50km solo effort and was caught 450m from the finish by Canada's Michael Woods.

Meanwhile, Pogacar gained eight seconds on Vingegaard. 

2023 Tour de France: Stage 9 Results - Sunday 9 July

Saint-léonard-de-noblat to puy de dôme, 182.4km.

Michael Woods (CAN, Israel Premier Tech) 4:19:41

Pierre Latour (FRA, TotalEnergies) +28

Matej Mohoric (SLO, Bahrain - Victorious) +35

Matteo Jorgensen (USA, Movistar) +35

Clement Berthet (FRA, AG2R Citroën) + 55

Neilson Powless (USA, EF Education-EasyPost) +1:23

Alexej Lutsenko (UKR, Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 1:39

Jonas Gregaard (DEN, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +1:58

Mathieu Burgaudeau (FRA, TotalEnergies) + 2:16

David de la Cruz (SPA, Astana Qazaqstan Team) + 2:34

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 9

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 38h 37'46"
  • Romain Bardet (FRA, Team DSM - Firmenich) +6:58"

Saturday 8 July: Stage 8 - Libourne - Limoges, hilly, 200.7km

Mads Pederson held off triple stage winner Jasper Philipsen and Wout van Aert to clinch stage eight of the Tour de France in 4:12:26.

Van Aert had looked to be in a position to take the stage but was forced to apply the brakes after getting blocked by his own Jumbo-Visma teammate Christophe Laporte . The Belgian was able to recover to catch third.

Earlier in the race, joint record holder for stage wins Mark Cavendish was forced to abandon his 14th and expected last Tour after he was caught in a crash with 63km to go.

The Manx Missile appeared to have injured his shoulder after a touch of wheels in the peloton forced him off his bike and onto the tarmac.

It's been a heartbreaking 24 hours for Cavendish who was denied a record win yesterday (Friday) after suffering a mechanical issue in his sprint showdown with Philipsen.

In the GC, Jonas Vingegaard retained the yellow jersey, while Great Britain's Simon Yates slid two places into sixth following his crash with just 5km of the race left to go.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 8 Results - Saturday 8 July

Libourne to limoges, hilly, 200.7km.

  • Mads Pederson (DEN, Lidl - Trek) 4:12:26
  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin - Deceuninck) +0"
  • Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Jayco AlUla) +0"
  • Nils Eekhoff (NED, Team DSM - Firmenich) +0"
  • Jasper De Buyst (BEL, Lotto Dstny) +0"
  • Rasmus Tiller (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +0"
  • Corbin Strong (NZL, Israel - Premier Tech) +0"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 8

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 34h 10'03"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +25"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +1:34"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +3:30"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:40"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +4:01"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +4:03"
  • Romain Bardet (FRA, Team DSM - Firmenich) +4:43"
  • Thomas Pidcock (GBR, INEOS Grenadiers) +4:43"
  • Sepp Kuss (USA, Jumbo-Visma) +5:28"

Friday 7 July: Stage 7 - Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux, flat, 169.9km

Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck got his hat-trick, as he claimed his third sprint victory on stage 7 of the 2023 Tour de France.

The points classification leader won ahead of Mark Cavendish of Astana Qazaqstan Team and Biniam Girmay of Intermarché - Circus - Wanty.

A breakaway tried to challenge the peloton for the stage win, but it was inevitable that the sprinters were going to battle it out in the end.

The GC favourites, including Jonas Vingegaard , crossed the finish line in the peloton, and the Jumbo-Visma rider retained the yellow leader’s jersey.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 7 Results - Friday 7 July

Mont-de-marsan to bordeaux, flat, 169.9km.

  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 3hr 46'28"
  • Mark Cavendish (GBR, Astana Qazaqstan Team) +0"
  • Biniam Girmay (ERI, Intermarché - Circus - Wanty) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 7

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) 29h 57'12"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +3:14"

Jasper Philipsen has won all three sprint finishes so far at the 2023 Tour de France.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 7 - Mont-De-Marsan to Bordeaux - France - July 7, 2023 Alpecin–Deceuninck's Jasper Philipsen celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 7 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Thursday 6 July: Stage 6 - Tarbes to Cauterets-Cambasque, high mountains, 144.9km

Tadej Pogacar of UAE Emirates won the mountainous stage 6 in the Pyrenees ahead of reigning Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard , who took over the leader’s jersey.

The first part of the stage was dominated by Jumbo-Visma and Vingegaard, who put pressure on the penultimate climb Col du Tourmalet. First, overnight leader Jai Hindley  was dropped by the pace of Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma).

Shortly after, Vingegaard attacked on climb, and only Pogacar could follow. The Dane’s teammate Wout van Aert got into the early breakaway and was waiting on the descent to pilot his captain into the final kilometres of the last climb - Cauterets-Cambasque.

Defending champion Vingegaard attacked again on the final climb with 4.5 kilomtres to the finish, but Pogacar stayed in his wheel. Two kilometres later, the Slovenian opened up a gap to the Dane. The two-time Tour de France winner managed to stay and claim his tenth Tour de France stage win.

In the GC, Vingegaard now leads by 25 seconds to Tadej Pogacar in second place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 6 Results - Thursday 6 July

Tarbes to cauterets-cambasque, high mountains, 144.9km.

  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) 3hr 54'27"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +24"
  • Tobias Halland Johannessen (NOR, Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) +1:22"
  • Ruben Guerreiro (POR, Movistar Team) +2:06"
  • James Shaw (GBR, EF Education-EasyPost) +2:15"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +2:39"
  • Carlos Rodríguez (SPA, INEOS Grenadiers) +2:39"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco AlUla) +2:39"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +3:11"
  • Romain Bardet (FRA, Team dsm - firmenich) +3:12"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 6

  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma)
  • Romain Bardet (FRA, Team dsm - firmenich) +4:43"

Tadej Pogacar claimed stage six of the 2023 Tour de France.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 6 - Tarbes to Cauterets-Cambasque - France - July 6, 2023 UAE Team Emirates' Tadej Pogacar celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 6 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Wednesday 5 July: Stage 5 - Pau to Laruns, high mountains, 162.7km

General Classification podium contender Jai Hindley of BORA-Hansgrohe claimed the first mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France. He also took over the leader’s yellow jersey from Adam Yates . Australian rider Hindley had sneaked into a big breakaway, where he attacked on the last categorised climb, Col de Marie Blanc. Hindley managed to maintain a gap to the GC favourites to take his first ever Tour de France stage.

Behind the stage winner, reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard had dropped two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar and others on the last steep climb, and the Dane started the final descent with a 40-second advantage to the Slovenian.

Vingegaard crossed the finish line in fifth place, 34 seconds behind Hindley but gained more than a minute on his biggest rival for the overall win, Pogacar. Last year’s winner moves up to second place in the GC, 47 seconds behind Hindley, who was awarded 18 bonus second on the stage. Pogacar is in sixth place, 1:40 behind the leader’s jersey.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 5 Results - Wednesday 5 July

Pau to laruns, high mountains, 162.7km.

  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) 3hr 57'07"
  • Giulio Ciccone (ITA, Lidl - Trek) +32"
  • Felix Gall (AUT, AG2R Citroën Team) +32"
  • Emanuel Buchmann (GER, BORA - hansgrohe) +32"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +34"
  • Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +1:38"
  • Daniel Felipe Martínez (COL, INEOS Grenadiers) +1:38"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama - FDJ) +1:38"
  • Carlos Rodríguez (ESP, INEOS Grenadiers) +1:38"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 5

  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) 22hr 15'12"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +47"
  • Giulio Ciccone (ITA, Lidl - Trek) +1:03"
  • Emanuel Buchmann (GER, BORA - hansgrohe) +1:11"
  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) +1:34"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +1:40"
  • Simon Yates (Team Jayco AlUla) +1:40"
  • Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +1:56"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +1:56"
  • David Gaudu (Groupama - FDJ) +1:56"

Jai Hindley claimed the first mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France.

Cycling - Tour de France - Stage 5 - Pau to Laruns - France - July 5, 2023 Bora–Hansgrohe's Jai Hindley celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win stage 5 REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Tuesday 4 July: Stage 4 - Dax to Nogaro, flat, 181.8km

Jasper Philpsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck sprinted to his second consecutive stage win on stage four of this year's Tour de France. In a close sprint finish, the Belgian threw his bike at the finish line to win right ahead of the Australian Caleb Ewan (Lotto Dstny).

A few crashes on the final kilomtres did not change anything among the GC favourites. Adam Yates crossed the finish line within the peloton, and the UAE Emirates rider retained the yellow leader's jersey.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 4 Results - Tuesday 4 July

Dax to nogaro, flat, 181.8km.

  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4hr 25'28"
  • Caleb Ewan (AUS, Lotto Dstny) +0"
  • Danny van Poppel (NED, BORA - hansgrohe) +0"
  • Luka Mezgec (SLO, Team Jayco AlUla) +0

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 4

  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 9hr 09'18"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +6"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco Alula) +6"
  • Victor Lafay (FRA, Cofidis) +12"
  • Wout van Aert (BEL, Jumbo-Visma) +16"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +17"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +22"
  • Michael Woods (CAN, Israel-Premier Tech) +22"
  • Mattias Skjelmose (DEN, Lidl - Trek) +22"
  • Carlos Rodriguez Cano (ESP, Ineos Grenadiers) +22"

Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory on stage three of the 2023 Tour de France.

  • Jul 3, 2023 Foto del lunes del pedalista del Alpecin–Deceuninck Jasper Philipsen celebrando tras ganar la tercera etapa del Tour de Francia REUTERS/Stephane Mahe

Monday 3 July: Stage 3 - Amorebieta-Etxano to Bayonne, flat, 193.5km

Jasper Philipsen of Alpecin-Deceuninck claimed the first sprint stage finish of the 2023 Tour de France, as the peloton left Spain to finish in Bayonne, France. It was the third Tour de France stage win for the Belgian sprinter.

The leader's yellow jersey stayed with Adam Yates, who came through the stage unscathed. He has a six-second lead to UAE Emirates teammate Tadej Pogacar.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 3 Results - Monday 3 July

Amorebieta-etxano to bayonne, flat, 193.5km.

  • Jasper Philipsen (BEL, Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4hr 43'15"
  • Fabio Jakobsen (NED, Soudal - Quick Step) +0"
  • Dylan Groenewegen (NED, Team Jayco AlUla) +0

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 3

  • Mikel Landa (ESP, Bahrain Victorious) +22"

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Sunday 2 july: stage 2 - vitoria-gasteiz to saint-sébastien, hilly, 208.9km.

Frenchman Victor Lafay (Cofidis) timed his attack to perfection pulling away from the peloton with a kilometre left to sprint to a maiden Tour de France stage win in Saint-Sébastien.

Lafay’s brave sprint to the finish gave Cofidis their first win since 2008 with Wout van Aert finishing a few bike lengths behind him in second place.

Tadej Pogacar , bidding for a third yellow jersey after losing his title to Jonas Vingegaard last year, again crossed the line in third place for second in the general classification.

First-stage winner, Adam Yates , held onto the yellow jersey finishing the stage in 21st place, one spot behind brother Simon .

2023 Tour de France: Stage 2 Results - Sunday 2 July

Vitoria-gasteiz to saint-sébastien, medium mountains, 208.9km.

  • Victor Lafay (FRA, Cofidis) 4hr 46'39"
  • Thomas Pidcock (GBR, Ineos Grenadiers) +0"
  • Pello Bilbao Lopez (ESP, Bahrain Victorious) +0"
  • Michael Woods (CAN, Israel - Premier Tech) +0"
  • Romain Bardet (FRA, Team DSM - Firmenich) +0"
  • Dylan Teuns (BEL, Israel - Premier Tech) +0
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora - Hansgrohe) +0"
  • Steff Cras (BEL, Totalenergies) +0"

2023 Tour de France: General Classification standings after Stage 2

Saturday 1 july: stage 1 - bilbao to bilbao, medium mountains, 182km.

Britain's  Yates twins  pulled away from the lead group inside the last 10km of the Grand Départ with  Adam  easing clear of  Simon  inside the final kilometre to take his first Tour de France stage win in Bilbao.

Tadej Pogacar , bidding for a third yellow jersey after losing his title to  Jonas Vingegaard  last year, won the sprint for third and punched the air as he celebrated gaining a four-second time bonus on his rivals as well as a stage win for his UAE Team Emirates colleague in northern Spain.

Thibaut Pinot  was fourth with reigning champion Vingegaard safely in the lead group in ninth place.

2023 Tour de France: Stage 1 Results - Saturday 1 July

Bilbao to bilbao, medium mountains, 182km.

  • Adam Yates (GBR, UAE Team Emirates) 4hr 22'49"
  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco Alula) +4"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +12"
  • Thibaut Pinot (FRA, Groupama-FDJ) +12"
  • Michael Woods (CAN, Israel-Premier Tech) +12"
  • Jai Hindley (AUS, Bora-Hansgrohe) +12"
  • Skjelmose Mattias Jensen (DEN, Lidl-Trek) +12"
  • Jonas Vingegaard (DEN, Jumbo-Visma) +12"
  • David Gaudu (FRA, Groupama-FDJ) +12"

Tour de France 2023: General Classification standings after Stage 1

  • Simon Yates (GBR, Team Jayco Alula) +8"
  • Tadej Pogacar (SLO, UAE Team Emirates) +18"
  • Thibault Pinot (FRA, Groupama-FDJ) +22"

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Day-by-day route of the 2023 tour de france.

  • Saturday 1 July: Stage 1 - Bilbao-Bilbao (182km)
  • Sunday 2 July: Stage 2 - Vitoria-Gasteiz - Saint-Sebastian (208.9km)
  • Monday 3 July: Stage 3 - Amorebieta - Etxano-Bayonne (187.4 km)
  • Tuesday 4 July: Stage 4 - Dax - Nogaro (181.8 km)
  • Wednesday 5 July: Stage 5 - Pau - Laruns (162.7 km)
  • Thursday 6 July: Stage 6 - Tarbes - Cauterets-Cambasque (144.9 km)
  • Friday 7 July: Stage 7 - Mont-de-Marsan - Bordeaux (169.9 km)
  • Saturday 8 July: Stage 8 - Libourne - Limoges (200.7 km)
  • Sunday 9 July: Stage 9 - Saint-Léonard-de-Noblat - Puy de Dôme (182.4 km)
  • Monday 10 July: Rest Day
  • Tuesday 11 July: Stage 10 - Vulcania - Issoire (167.2 km)
  • Wednesday 12 July: Stage 11 - Clermont-Ferrand - Moulins (179.8 km)
  • Thursday 13 July: Stage 12 - Roanne - Belleville-en-Beaujolais (168.8 km)
  • Friday 14 July: Stage 13 - Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne - Grand Colombier (137.8 km)
  • Saturday 15 July: Stage 14 - Annemasse - Morzine Les Portes du Soleil (151.8 km)
  • Sunday 16 July Stage 15 - Les Gets les portes du soleil - Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc (179 km)
  • Monday 17 July: Rest Day
  • Tuesday 18 July: Stage 16 - Passy - Combloux (22.4 km individual time trial)
  • Wednesday 19 July: Stage 17 - Saint-Gervais-Mont-Blanc - Courchevel (165.7 km)
  • Thursday 20 July: Stage 18 - Moûtiers - Bourg-en-Bresse (184.9 km)
  • Friday July 21: Stage 19 - Moirans-en-Montagne - Poligny (172.8 km)
  • Saturday July 22: Stage 20 - Belfort - Le Markstein Fellering (133.5 km)
  • Sunday July 23: Stage 21 - Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - Paris Champs-Élysées (115.1 km)

How to watch the Tour de France 2023

The Tour de France will be shown live in 190 countries. Here is a list of the official broadcast partners across different territories.

  • Basque Country - EiTB
  • Belgium - RTBF and VRT
  • Czech Republic - Česká Televize
  • Denmark - TV2
  • Europe - Eurosport
  • France - France TV Sport and Eurosport France
  • Germany - Discovery+ and ARD
  • Ireland - TG4
  • Italy - Discovery+ and RAI Sport
  • Luxemburg - RTL
  • Netherlands - Discovery+ and NOS
  • Norway - TV2
  • Portugal - RTP
  • Scandinavia - Discovery+
  • Slovakia - RTVS
  • Slovenia - RTV SLO
  • Spain - RTVE
  • Switzerland - SRG-SSR
  • United Kingdom - Discovery+ and ITV
  • Wales - S4C
  • Canada - FloBikes
  • Colombia - CaracolTV
  • Latin America & Caribbean: ESPN
  • South America - TV5 Monde
  • United States - NBC Sports and TV5 Monde

Asia Pacific

  • Australia - SBS
  • China - CCTV and Zhibo TV
  • Japan - J Sports
  • New Zealand - Sky Sport
  • South-East Asia - Global Cycling Network and Eurosport

Middle East and Africa

  • The Middle East and North Africa - BeIN Sports and TV5 Monde
  • Subsaharan Africa - Supersport and TV5 Monde

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Stage Winner : Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe)

Jordi Meeus (Bora-Hansgrohe) was a surprise winner of Stage 21 of the 2023 Tour de France. Meeus won a sprint finish on the Champs-Élysées over the Tour’s top sprinters, Jasper Philipsen, Dylan Groenewegen, and Mads Pedersen.

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) enjoyed some champagne on the ride in and was officially crowned winner of the Tour de France for a second year, winning by 7 minutes, 29 seconds over second place Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)—by the largest margin of victory since 2014.

Final General Classification Standings

  • Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma): 82:05:42
  • Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates): -7:29
  • Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates): -10:56
  • Simon Yates (Jayco–AlUla): -12:23
  • Carlos Rodríguez (INEOS Grenadiers): -13:17

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Stage Winner : Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates)

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) won Stage 20 of the 2023 Tour de France. Pogačar was able to outsprint Jonas Vingegaard and a few other strong riders at the on the flat drag at the top of the Col du Platzerwasel. The win was Pogačar’s second stage win of the this Tour and his 11th career Tour stage win. Vingegaard was third to Pogačar (Stage 17 winner Felix Gall was second), losing just a few bonus seconds, and maintaining his lead in the yellow jersey competition heading into the mostly ceremonial final Stage 21.

The Winner of the Day

He won’t win the yellow jersey in this year’s Tour de France, but Tadej Pogačar was able to go out with a bang on Saturday. Pogačar won a sprint to the finish on a mountain stage—something he’s done many times in the Tour de France. But this win comes only a few days after Pogačar cracked on Stage 17 and effectively lost the GC to Vingegaard. Pogačar never lost faith, securing his 11th TdF stage win and his fourth white jersey of his still very young career.

The Other Winner of the Day

Of course, we be remiss not to mention Jonas Vingegaard, who did exactly what he needed to do on the penultimate stage to win the 2023 Tour de France—barring a Sunday disaster. Stage 20, in fact, mirrored a lot of what Vingegaard was able to do during the middle portion of the Tour, prior to his big gains on the Stage 16 TT and the Stage 17 mountain stage. He hung right with Pogačar and never let his top rival’s advantage on a given stage swell too much. Vingegaard, of course, is a worthy champion that will enjoy some champagne on the Champs-Élysées.

And One More Winner of the Day

Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Lidl) earned maximum points on the first four categorized climbs of the stage, and with it, claimed the King of the Mountains classification at the 2023 Tour de France (as long as he crosses the finish on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday). Ciccone seized the polka dot jersey on Stage 15 and rode brilliantly to pick up points where he could throughout the Tour’s final week. Ciccone becomes the first rider to win the KOM and not win the GC in the same Tour since Romain Bardet in 2019. Sometimes it’s more fun when we spread the wealth.

Best Moment of the Day

It wasn’t a big surprise to see Thibaut Pinot get in the breakaway on the last mountain stage of his storied Tour de France career. And I guess it’s not much of a big surprise that Pinot launched a solo attack with over 30K to go in the stage. The three-time TdF stage winner put on a show for the home fans in France on Stage 20, and what a sight it was to see his supporters on his solo ride up the Petit Ballon. The dream wasn’t to be though, as the yellow jersey group caught Pinot up the Col du Platzerwasel. Merci, Thibaut. Merci.

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Stage Winner : Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious)

It doesn’t get any closer than that! Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) took a sprint finish to win Stage 19 of the 2023 Tour de France. Mohorič got in a breakaway that included many of the top sprinters and classics riders. That breakaway included the likes of Jasper Philipsen and Mads Pedersen, so Mohorič knew he had to make a move early and that’s exactly what he did, breaking free, along with Stage 18 winner Kasper Asgreen and Ben O’Connor, of that breakaway with 30K to go in the stage.

Despite a good effort by the chasers—including Philpsen, his Alpecin teammate Mathieu van der Poel, and Pederson—to try and bring back the three attackers, they ultimately couldn’t gain ground and seemed to lack full cooperation. But the pure strength of Mohorič, Asgreen, and O’Connor showed through. Down the final stretch, O’Connor, knowing his speed couldn’t match that of Mohorič or Asgreen, made his move, but that was quickly answered by the pair and it was a drag race between Mohorič and Asgreen, who gapped O’Connor and made their dash for the line. It was a photo finish, but Mohorič narrowly edged out Asgreen for the stage win.

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Stage Winner : Kasper Asgreen (Soudal Quick-Step)

Kasper Asgreen won Stage 18 of the Tour de France in dramatic fashion. Asgreen got in the original breakaway of the day at kilometer zero. On a stage that seemed destined for a sprint finish out of the peloton, Asgreen and the others in the break managed to fend off the hungry peloton. Asgreen outsprinted Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny) and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Pro Cycling Team) for the win at line.

The Biggest Winner of the Day

It’s no secret that it’s been a rough Tour de France for the Soudal Quick-Step team. The team’s top sprinter, Fabio Jakobsen, withdrew from the race after Stage 12. The squad’s top stage hunting threat, Julian Alaphilippe, has struggled to be a factor in any stage. But Asgreen got Soudal Quick-Step off the schneid Thursday, winning in the most unlikely of ways. Asgreen got himself in the early break and held out just long enough to claim the Stage 18 victory—the first grand tour stage win of his career.

The Biggest Loss of the Day

This goes to anyone from the peloton that was hoping to get the stage win today. The flat stage was tailor-made for the pure sprinters, but the peloton struggled to pull back the four-man breakaway. It seemed in the last 10K that a catch was inevitable, but the break stayed strong and held out just long enough. Alpecin-Deceuninck, which has already racked up four stage wins this Tour, is the team that loses the most on the day. Their top sprinter Jasper Philipsen—responsible for those four wins—was fourth on the stage and the top finisher from the peloton. It would have been his stage to win—if the peloton caught the break, that is.

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Stage Winner: Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën)

Felix Gall won Stage 17 of the Tour de France, a stage that ended up being the craziest of the 2023 Tour so far. Gall made his move from the breakaway and rode away from a talented group of riders to claim the first grand tour stage win of his career.

Meanwhile, there were plenty of fireworks behind Gall. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) cracked on the stage losing well over five minutes to Jonas Vingegaard in the yellow jersey. Vingeagaard placed fourth on the stage and gained a significant amount of time that will likely carry him to Paris in the maillot jaune.

We’ll get to the stage winner shortly, but first we must acknowledge that Vingegaard won the 2023 Tour de France on Wednesday. First, Pogačar massively cracked on the Col de la Loze, then Vingagaard went on the offensive to deliver the dagger. Vingegaard finished fourth on the stage, 1:52 back of the stage winner Gall, but more importantly, he gained 5:45 on the man that was by his side for the first 15 stages of the Tour, Pogačar. With just four stages remaining, Vingegaard now leads by a whopping 7:35 over Pogačar. Assuming he stays upright, Vingegaard will win his second straight Tour de France on Sunday.

The Other Biggest Winner of the Day

Felix Gall has been one of the Tour’s revelations, and on Wednesday he confirmed that he’ll be a force to be reckoned with for the future in the WorldTour. The 25-year-old, who entered the day in 10th place in the GC, conquered the Col de la Loze and rode to the win on the stage that many have called “the hardest of the Tour.” Gall emerged on the radar after he took the polka dot jersey after Stage 5 of this year’s Tour. But now he earned his signature moment, winning on an absolutely brutal day in France. Gall moves up the eighth in the GC, but more importantly, he’s etched his name into TdF history forever.

After losing over a minute and a half to the yellow jersey on Tuesday, Pogačar effectively lost the 2023 Tour de France on Wednesday. Pogačar didn’t ride a bad individual time trial on Tuesday’s Stage 16, despite losing 1:38 to Vingegaard. But on Wednesday’s Stage 17, Pogačar had the worst day we’ve ever seen the 24-year-old have at the Tour de France. “I’m gone. I’m dead,” Pogačar said to his team over the radio during the stage after he cracked and lost over five minutes to Vingegaard ending what was a terrific GC battle through the first 16 stages of the Tour.

Other Notable Gains from a Wild Stage

Simon Yates (Jayco–AlUla) made the day’s biggest jump within the top 10 of the GC. While he was second on the stage for the second time this Tour (though this time it was to someone other than his twin brother), Yates moved from eighth to fifth. He’s 12:19 behind the yellow jersey, but just 18 seconds behind Carlos Rodriguez for fourth place in the GC. Simon’s twin brother Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates), meanwhile, was able to further solidify his spot on the podium. Adam Yates is in third place with a 1:16 advantage on Rodriguez, who lost time today.

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Stage Winner : Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) roared to the Stage 16 win in the 2023 Tour de France’s lone individual time trial. Vingegaard put down an incredible TT over 22.4km and he won the stage by 1:38 over second place Tadej Pogačar, who also happens to be his biggest rival in the GC battle. Vingegaard earned his Jumbo-Visma team its first stage win of the Tour, and more importantly, he made the most significant time gains of the Tour so far.

Jonas Vingegaard is the clear winner of the stage and quite likely the entire 2023 Tour de France after Tuesday. Vingegaard, the defending Tour champion, put down the individual time trial of his life on Tuesday—a day after the rest day—providing further evidence of the Magic of the Yellow Jersey. Vingegaard’s hold on the yellow jersey was just 10 seconds entering Stage 16, but it ballooned all the way to 1:48 after the time trial—a margin that will most likely prove decisive in the battle for the maillot jaune. After a lot of back and forth between Vingegaard and Pogačar in the mountains during the first 15 stages, Vingegaard dealt Pogačar the first major blow of this Tour.

Tadej Pogačar had the second best time of the day on Stage 16—a minute and 13 seconds ahead of Wout Van Aert!—but he may have lost the 2023 Tour de France Tuesday. Very little has separated Vingegaard and Pogačar during the first two weeks of the Tour, but Vingegaard tacking 1:38 in addition to his 10-second advantage on the individual time trial may prove to be decisive in the GC battle. It’s, of course, never over until it’s over. Pogačar will have two significant mountain stages before the Tour reaches Paris on Sunday, so the chances are there. But psychologically, it will be tough for Pogačar to regroup after Tuesday’s time trial.

While it’s clear that Jumbo-Visma’s energy at the 2023 Tour de France has been focused on helping Vingegaard win the yellow jersey—something they’ve been very successful at!—it was still surprising to see the Dutch superteam without a stage win through the first two weeks of the Tour. That changed on Tuesday, thanks to the maillot jaune himself. Vingegaard rode an unbelievable TT to Stage 16 to claim the stage win by 1:38. Surely, the GC gains are the most important, but Jumbo-Visma won’t be too upset to finally snag a TdF stage win in 2023.

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Stage Winner : Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious)

Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) won Stage 15 of the 2023 Tour de France, capturing the win from the breakaway and beating a talented group to claim the first TdF stage victory of his career.

Poels spent a lot of time in the breakaway on Sunday, but his strength showed throughout the entire day. He stayed patient in the break and joined an attacking group with around 35K to go in the stage. That quartet included Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), and Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates). In the early parts of the final climb of the day—Mont Blanc—Poels made his move on Van Aert and extended his lead from there.

The Biggest Loser of the Day

Normally we call this section”The Biggest Loss of the Day” because it sounds nicer. But we’ll throw that out of the window for this one. The biggest loser of the day on Sunday was the fan that interfered with the peloton early in Stage 15, causing a massive crash.

It’s got to be the fans! Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) battled up the Mont Blanc and finished together at the finish of Stage 15. Vingegaard’s yellow jersey advantage remains at 10 seconds as we enter the rest day on Monday before the final week of the Tour de France. The margins couldn’t be closer, and who doesn’t love a tremendously close GC battle in the Tour de France? Fans will enjoy an action-packed—and surely attack-filled—final week of this Tour.

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Stage Winner : Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers)

Spain’s Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers) won Stage 14 of the 2023 Tour de France during a wild day in the GC. Rodriguez was dropped on the final climb up the Joux Plane, but he was able to return on the ensuing descent, and gap the two GC leaders and ride to the stage win—the second in as many days for INEOS—and improve his own GC positioning.

We expected to see GC fireworks on Stage 14 and we got exactly that. But at the end of the stage, there ultimately wasn’t a ton of change at least as far as the top two in the Tour were concerned. So therefore, the biggest winner of the day is Carlos Rodriguez and his INEOS Grenadiers team. Rodriguez capitalized on Pogačar and Vingegaard focusing on the overall GC situation. He seized his opportunity on the descent in the run-in to the finish and claimed victory on the day and moved into the podium, now sitting in third place overall in the GC, 4:43 back of the yellow jersey.

As we watched the absolute most thrilling stage of the 2023 Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar had Jonas Vingegaard on the ropes and was ready to launch an attack as they approached the top of the Col de Joux Plane. But that plan was foiled. Pogačar attacked, but was forced to stop his acceleration when the motorbikes got in the way. Eventually, Vingegaard was the one to attack and gain the time bonuses on offer at the top of the climb. You can blame the fans. You can blame the motorbikes. But maybe your blame should go to the race organizers, who should have had barrier set up to remove the chance of any interference with the battling riders.

The Other Biggest Loss of the Day

With 146K to go in Stage 14, a massive crash involved a majority of the peloton, leading to the abandonment of five riders. The race was also neutralized—a good decision by the race officials given that there wasn’t even a breakaway formed at the time of the crash. After losing GC hope Richard Carapaz, EF Education EasyPost’s Esteban Chaves and James Shaw were caught up in the crash and forced to abandon the Tour. Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Antonio Pedrero (Movistar) and Romain Bardet (Team dsm-firmenich) also abandoned.

And How About One More Winner of the Day

Despite the motorbikes/fans/race organizers spoiling what could have been a perfect day for Pogačar, the Solvenian’s ability to withstand the torrid pace set all day long by the Jumbo-Visma squad is a big win. Ultimately, Pogačar lost one second to Vingegaard and now trails by 10 seconds in the GC standings, but he’s shown that he may hold a slight advantage in form over Vingegaard. It’s going to be a wild last week of racing.

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Stage Winner

Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers) won Stage 13 of the 2023 Tour de France, The 33-year-old won the stage atop the “Beyond Category” Grand Colombier after spending all day in the breakaway and then attacking what was left of it on the lower slopes of the final climb. It was clear throughout most of the 137.8km ride from Châtillon-Sur-Chalaronne to the summit of the Grand Colombier that UAE Team Emirates wanted to set-up Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar for the win. But Kwiatokoski, a super-domestique with an impressive resume of his own, proved too strong to catch, holding-off Belgium’s Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Soudal) and then Pogačar to take the second Tour de France stage victory of his career.

Biggest Winner of the Day

While they didn’t win the stage, UAE Team Emirates has to be feeling good about its chances of winning its third Tour de France in four years. The team rode an impressive race from start to finish, lined-up at the front of the peloton throughout much of the day and setting a ferocious pace on the final climb to whittle down the yellow jersey group. But that was just an amuse bouche, as Great Britain’s Adam Yates attacked the group about 2 kilometers from the summit, drawing out Vingegaard’s teammate Sepp Kuss, and then Vingegaard and Pogačar themselves. Pogačar saved his own attack for the final ramp to the finish line, and while Vingegaard was able to follow at first he soon succumbed to the Slovenian’s acceleration. Jumbo-Visma clearly thinks the Alps will prove to be the Tour’s most important battlegrounds, but UAE is confident, strong, and looks to have all the firepower they need to win the Tour.

Gutsiest Ride of the Day

Kwiatkowski seems to have been given a free role at INEOS, chasing breakaways despite the fact that the team has two riders, Spain’s Carlos Rodríguez and Great Britain’s Tom Pidcock, in the top-10 overall. The 33-year-old rewarded the team’s faith today, ensuring that no matter what happens with its young GC riders, the team won’t go home from the Tour empty-handed.

Unsung Hero/Head-Scratcher

If you watched earlier seasons of the Movistar documentary “The Least Expected Day” on Netflix, then Spain’s Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates) should be a familiar name to you. (And if you haven’t, what are you waiting for?) The mercurial rider is immensely talented, but he often gave his directors and teammates headaches by making some bone-headed decisions from time to time. After transferring to UAE Team Emirates after the 2021 season, the 29-year-old is now one of Pogačar’s most important domestiques, which he showed with his pace-setting midway up the Grand Colombier. But just for good measure, he also showed why Movistar found him so frustrating: once he pulled off from the yellow jersey group, he caught back on to the back of it, which meant he must have had a little left in the tank that he could have given while he was on the front. His directors will certainly discuss this with him before tomorrow’s stage.

What Were They Thinking?

Intermediate sprints are usually designed for, um, sprinters. But today’s came in the town of Hauteville-Lompnes, midway up a long, gradual climb. We get that these are business decisions (towns pay lots of money to host the Tour’s intermediate sprints), but we can’t help but wonder what the Tour organizers were thinking today. Our best guess is that there were few bidders to host the sprint, leaving ASO with no other choice but to put it on a plateau.

Biggest Loser of the Day

Today was Bastille Day and the French were out in force on the Grand Colombier–so much so that the ascent was closed to anyone hoping to climb it early in the morning. But they had little to cheer for thanks to a lackluster showing from the Tour’s French riders. Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ) did his best, attacking on the lower slopes of the Grand Colombier only to be caught by Kwiatkoski and others a little while later.To make matters worse, Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Romain Bardet (DSM-firmenich) were both dropped from the yellow jersey group thanks to the pace set by UAE Team Emirates, leaving David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) as the home nation’s best chance for a high finish in Paris (although that’s a bit of stretch given the fact that he’s ninth overall and almost 7 minutes beyond Vingegaard).

Best North American

Sepp Kuss rode valiantly on behalf of Vingegaard, covering Yates’ attack near the top of the Colombier and then hanging on to finish twelfth on the stage. He’s now back into the Tour’s top-10 overall, but will likely sacrifice himself for the sake of Vingegaard in the Alps, where his team thinks the race will be decided.

Rookie of the Day

Riding his first Tour de France and only his second grand tour, Rodríguez maintained his position on the Tour’s General Classification, ending the day fourth overall, 4:48 behind Vingegaard. INEOS is happy to let the 22-year-old (and Pidcock) follow wheels in the yellow jersey group, giving them the space and the freedom to ride their best Tours possible without any pressure from the team.

There’s still a lot of race left, but Rodríguez looks to be a true podium contender–if he can somehow overcome the nearly two minutes that separate him from Australia’s Jai Hindley (BORA-hansgrohe), who currently sits third overall.

Another Two Bite the Dust

Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan (Lotto Destny) was dropped about 55km from the end of the stage and abandoned the Tour soon after. Ewan barely survived the time cut on Stage 13 and was seen clutching his abdomen after getting dropped. Once thought to be a rider who would dominate Tour field sprints for years, Ewan now hasn’t won a stage at the Tour since 2020. INEOS also lost one its domestiques: Great Britain’s Ben Turner. It’s a good thing Kwiatkowski won a stage today, because without Turner, the team will need him to stay back and support Rodríguez and Pidcock in the Alps.

Stage Winner : Ion Izagirre (Cofidis)

Make it two stage wins for the Cofidis team in the 2023 Tour de France. That’s thanks to a brilliant Stage 12 ride by Ion Izagirre. With 30K to go on the final climb of the day, Izagirre broke free of the breakaway that included the likes of Mathieu van der Poel, riding to the day’s stage win. For Izagirre, it’s his second career stage win—he won

Let’s hear it again for Cofidis! The French team ended a 15-year Tour de France stage win drought on Stage 2 when Victor Lafay rode to the victory. But they weren’t finished there. Izagirre made his move on the Mathieu van der Poel and the rest of the breakaway at the perfect time and rode clear to the win. Cofidis also had Gui Martin positioned nicely in that select breakaway as a backup plan. It was terrific execution on the day during what has been a dream Tour for Cofidis.

Thibaut Pinot was surely going for a stage win on Thursday; it was not to be. But the 33-year-old from Groupama-FDJ, riding in his final Tour de France, made the move into the top ten of GC. He shot up from 15th overall, 9:36 behind the yellow jersey to tenth overall, 6:30 down. It’s likely not the last we’ve seen of Pinot’s stage win attempts in this year’s Tour, but regardless, it’s cool to see the veteran in the top ten overall.

The Heartbreak of the Day—and the Whole Tour (So Far)

It’s been a strong couple weeks for American Matteo Jorgensen. But unfortunately for the Movistar rider, he doesn’t have a stage win to show for it. Few riders—if any—have spent more time in the breakaway during the first 12 stages of the Tour, but the big win has been just out of his grasp. No defeat was more heartbreaking than Sunday’s Stage 9 on the Puy de Dôme. On Stage 12, Jorgensen appeared to be the strongest rider in the group chasing Izagirre, but he left it too late. He launched a number of (ultimately futile) attempts to try and bridge the gap, but it wasn’t to be. The good news for the American is that there are plenty of pro-breakaway stages remaining for him to try and claim his well-deserved glory.

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Stage Winner : Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)

Jasper Philipsen won Stage 11 of the 2023 Tour de France, picking up his fourth stage win so far and continuing to assert his dominance in the sprints. It was a wet and technical finish in Moulins on Tuesday, but that didn’t stop Philipsen, who sprinted past Dylan Groenewegen in the closing meters to claim win No. 4 of the Tour.

Philipsen has proven himself to be the king of the sprints in this year’s Tour de France, capturing his fourth stage victory in the first 11 stages. Additionally, he improved upon his lead in the green jersey points competition. He now leads that by a staggering 145 points. What’s perhaps most impressive about his Stage 11 victory was that he did it without the aid of his top Alpecin-Deceuninck comrade Mathieu van der Poel, who was not spotted up front in the run in to the finish. Philipsen has proven that he can win in multiple different ways and he could be well on his way to a second straight Stage 21 victory in Paris.

Another day, another goose egg in the stage win column for Soudal-QuickStep. The QuickStep team was right at the head of the peloton for much of the ride into the finish in Moulins, working for Fabio Jakobsen, but in the final sprint, Jakobsen was a non-factor sitting on the back of the bunch and ultimately finishing 16th on the day. Jakobsen crashed during the tricky Stage 4 finish, and it appears the sprinter hasn’t fully recovered from those injuries.

The Close Call of the Day

Well, that could have been bad. As the pace ramped up with just over 5K to go in the stage, the Jumbo-Visma train was at the front with Soudal Quick-Step’s Julian Alaphilippe sandwiched in between then. The yellow jersey of Jonas Vingegaard made his way along the edge of the road next to Alaphilippe and—perhaps not noticing him—Alaphilippe drifted towards Vingegaard and the pair nearly collided. Thankfully, nothing happened and Alaphilippe gave the maillot jaune an apologetic tap of the back and the run into the finish continued.

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Stage Winner : Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious)

Pello Bilbao won a sprint out of the breakaway to claim the Stage 10 victory after a thrilling of racing.

Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) takes his first Tour de France stage win at 33-years-old. This is the first win by a Spanish rider in 100 stages. He also slides into the top 5 for the overall standings. Bilbao rode an incredibly smart sprint, shielding himself with Zimmermann and O’Connor as long as possible before throwing the hammer down. Bilbao becomes the 5th first-time stage winner of the tour. In his post-ride interview he dedicated his ride to Gino Mäder, who died recently after suffering a terrible crash in the Tour de Suisse.

Krists Neilands (Israel–Premier Tech) rode a perfectly aggressive race, earned the KOM points on Côte de la Chapelle-Marcousse (Cat 3), and just kept building his lead in front of the two chase groups. With 10 km to go, the team radio told him, “It’s the day of your life, the day of your life, let’s go.” But with less than a kilometer to go, he couldn’t hold off the chasers. He put up an incredible battle and came away with 4th place.

Biggest Villain(s) of the Day

The road and the heat. Man-eating speed bumps, loads of gravel, and chipped pavement all made fast descents even more dangerous than usual. And by the end of the race, temperatures soared to 97-degrees and riders had a hard time staying hydrated. Groups of 4-5 stuck together just to survive.

Newest Race Strategy?

Sometimes race leaders wait until the last mile to make their move. And sometimes they do it with 100 miles to go. Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard went on the attack early in the race to split the peloton. That set the pace for an aggressive day. Still with 48 miles to go there was a 14-man breakaway that took off. The pace throughout the stage was bonkers, making it difficult for such riders as Wout van Aert, who always wants to be the one to set an ambitious pace. Riders started dropping like flies with 30 km to go.

The peloton eventually calmed down and came together, led entirely by Jumbo-Visma.

Cutest Couple

Frenemies and cyclocross stars Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert worked together for a bit to attack out of the peloton with 40 km to go. They broke up after 10 km of riding together as Wout dropped Mathieu to ride on. They proved that when conditions are tough, working with anyone is better than no one.

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Stage Winner: Mike Woods (Israel-PremierTech)

Canada’s Mike Woods (Israel-PremierTech) won Stage 9 atop the Hors Categorie (“Beyond Category”) Puy de Dôme, one of the most famous climbs in Tour history. The 36-year-old from Toronto paced himself from the base of the climb, catching four riders on his way to his first Tour de France stage victory.

France’s Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) finished second and Slovenia’s Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) finished third. After an aggressive day of racing from the breakaway, American Neilson Powless held on to finish sixth on the Puy de Dôme, extending his lead in the Tour’s King of the Mountains competition. He’ll wear the polka dot jersey into the first rest day and to start the Tour’s second week

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) clawed back 8 more seconds, and now sits just 17 seconds behind Denmarks’ Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) on the Tour’s General Classification. It seems like an eternity since the two-time Tour winner lost over a minute to Vingegaard at the end of Stage 5, and he’s now regained almost all the time he conceded. More importantly, after gapping the Dane on Stage 6 and Stage 9’s summit finishes, he clearly has a mental edge of his biggest rival to win the Tour.

American Matteo Jorgenson (Movistar) attacked the 14-rider breakaway with about 40km to go, heading up the road on his own and slowly extending his lead. Helped by the fact that the four riders chasing him weren’t working well together, it looked for a while as if the 24-year-old from Boise, Idaho was about to take his first Tour de France stage win.

But as the climb steepened, word came that Woods was steadily closing the gap from further down the mountain, and before we knew it, there he was. Jorgenson was clearly running on fumes as first Woods and then France’s Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) and Slovenia’s Matej Mohorič (Bahrain Victorious) caught the American. He ended the day one spot away from the podium, a painful result considering how close he came to winning–and his two fourth-place finishes in last year’s Tour.

Best Mathlete

American Neilson Powless went on the attack again today, joining the breakaway in an attempt to pad his lead in the Tour’s King of the Mountains competition. Well, Powless needs to send a thank you note to his elementary school math teacher (or at least his director sportif): by winning each of categorized climbs in the middle of the stage, Powless ensured that he had enough points to keep the polka dot jersey–no matter what happened on the Puy de Dôme, which awarded 20 points to the rider who was first to the summit. Powless’ sixth-place finish on the stage earned him another six KOM points, extending his lead even more.

Powless now leads Austria’s Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën) by 18 points and with only 16 points available between Stages 10 and 11, the American is guaranteed to wear the jersey through Thursday. Look for him to continue his polka dot assault: Gall might be given more freedom to fight for the jersey himself after his captain, Australia’s Ben O’Connor, lost more time at the end of Stage 9, meaning his team might be shifting its goals to fight for stage wins–and the King of Mountains prize.

Unsung Hero

American Sepp Kuss and Belgian Wout van Aert get all the prestige as Vingeggard’s top two domestiques (deservedly so), but let’s take a minute to recognize the pace-setting done by Dutchman Wilco Kelderman (Jumbo-Visma). Today he took over after van Aert pulled off and before Kuss took his turn, shedding more riders from the GC group. It’s too bad that Pogačar seems to be profiting from the hard work being done by Vingegaard’s team. Perhaps we won’t see so much of Kelderman, Kuss, van Aert, and co. at the front during the Tour’s second week.

Eeriest Moment

One of the conditions of the agreement that allowed the Tour to revisit the Puy de Dôme was that fans would not be allowed to line the climb’s upper slopes, which meant an eerie almost awkward silence as the riders tackled the final portion of the ascent. In a Tour that’s already seen overzealous fans cause some mayhem, the silence was likely a welcome treat for riders annoyed by fans getting in their faces during the Tour’s most important–and painful–moments.

Worst Luck?

Jorgenson needed a bottle at about 33km to go, but was unable to get one because the cars and motorbikes had been moved out of the gap as his pursuers dangled close behind. On a sweltering day that asked a lot of the riders in terms of hydrating and fueling, those few minutes without a bottle–and without his team car–might have made the difference between winning and losing the stage.

A day after they won Stage 8, today could have been another chance for Lidl-Trek, with Denmark’s Martin Skjelmose and Italy’s Giulio Ciccone contenders to win on the Puy de Dôme. But the team missed the move, a tactical blunder that cost them a chance to take a historic victory. To his credit, Skjelmose tried to bridge up to the move after it escaped, but he was joined by Italy’s Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost), who already had Powless up the road and was ordered not to work with the Dane.

And to the idiot gentleman who brought a clothesline to the roadside of the Tour de France: Please leave your laundry at home!

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Stage Winner : Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek)

Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) won a Stage 8 sprint, holding off Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) to win his first stage of the 2023 Tour de France. The run-in to the finish saw some punchy climbs, but the top sprinters were all there and Pedersen took the win in the end.

Pedersen claimed his second career Tour de France stage win. It was stage that was designed nicely for his strengths with some climbs near the end and a technical finish. The Lidl-Trek team was perfectly positioned to springboard Pedersen to the finish. Alpecin-Deceuninck had a strong leadout train as well, putting Philipsen in good position to win his fourth stage of the Tour. But Pedersen had the advantage from the start of the sprint and was able to hold off Philipsen in what seemed like an impossibly long final stretch to the line.

Stage 8 saw the withdrawal of Mark Cavendish, one of the all-time great Tour de France riders. Cav suffered a collarbone injury and was forced to abandon , ruining his chance of breaking the all-time TdF stage wins record. It’s an especially hard pill to swallow for Cavendish and cycling fans alike, with the crash coming a day after the Manx Missile nearly captured his record-breaking stage win were it not for a mechanical issue in the closing meters. Although he announced his retirement at the end of the season in May, maybe there’s a chance

Simon Yates (Jayco–AlUla) was the lone GC rider to lose time on Saturday, crashing with about 6K to go in the stage—outside of the 3K safe zone where riders don’t lose any time for crashes.. Simon Yates entered the stage in fourth place in the GC, 3:14 off the yellow jersey and now he sits in sixth place, 4:01 back and now behind Carlos Rodriguez (INEOS Grenadiers) and his twin brother Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates).

The Run-Through-A-Brick-Wall Moment of the Day

How about the reaction from the Lidl-Trek team car after Pedersen’s epic Stage 8 win? Listen for yourself and get pumped up on this Saturday.

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This was a stage that had cycling fans screaming at the top of their lungs at the finish. After a long, sleepy, and mostly flat stage, all the action was crammed into the last 3K. Why all the screaming? Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) came this close to winning the stage and breaking the TdF stage wins record, only to be passed by the seemingly unstoppable Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) with 500 meters to go.

Philipsen was once again positioned perfectly for the win by his leadout ace during this year’s Tour, Mathieu van der Poel, in what he referred to as the team’s “dream Tour” during post race interviews. Cavendish, however, made it very clear that he is more than capable of winning a stage this year, with a second place finish being his best one yet. If Cav keeps getting stronger as he seems to be, there will very likely be more screaming fans tomorrow.

Biggest Winners of the Day

The Alpecin lead out train offered another masterclass in how to win stages in this year’s Tour, with Mathieu van der Poel delivering Jasper Philipsen to another stage win. The other big winner for us during this stage was the one and only Mark Cavendish, who almost made it to the line first before Philipsen overtook him at the last moment. The fact that the Manx Missile’s finish position has come closer and closer to number one with every sprint stage, we think he has the power and form necessary to win number 35 this year. For today, Philipsen keeps the green jersey for another day.

Biggest Surprise of the Day

On a stage that often resembled a recovery ride until the last 10km as the riders gave their legs a bit of a break after two stages in the Pyrenees, the commentary surrounding Wout van Aert and whether he’s on the wrong team was loud and impossible to miss. Christian Vande Velde openly questioned on air what Wout would be able to do if he were on a team he could lead during the Tour instead of having to work for Jonas Vingegaard. With persistent media speculations about tension between Van Aert and Vingegaard on the Jumbo-Visma squad, the riders have routinely denied that anything is amiss, but the questions about whether that’s true have never been this blunt.

Gutsiest—Erm, or Maybe Stupidest—Ride of the Day

With approximately 20K to go, French riders Pierre Latour, the white jersey winner of 2018, and Nans Peters, a 2020 Tour stage winner, took off, working together in an attack that it seemed impossible to hold to the line. This didn’t seem to phase these two, as they spiced up an otherwise sleepy stage, putting up to 40 seconds on the peloton. Eventually Latour went solo in an all out effort, putting the sprinters on notice before blowing up with 3.5K to go.

Strongest American Rider of the Day - Nielsen Powless

Polka Dot Powless kept the King of the Mountains jersey for another day after recapturing it yesterday. The California native has become the de facto team leader for EF Education-EasyPost after Richard Carapaz crashed during Stage 1 and was forced by his injuries to leave the race. Powless went after the KOM competition right out of the gate during this year’s Tour, and so far he’s worn polka dots six out of the seven stages.

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Tadej Pogačar won Stage 6 of the 2023 Tour de France, and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) took the yellow leader's jersey during an busy day in the Pyranees. While Vingegaard took over the GC lead, Pogačar made the biggest statement of the day, passing and gapping Vingegaard on the final climb of the day. Pogačar won the stage and narrowed the gap to Vingegaard.

Tadej Pogačar, who made us think that maybe he was playing with us all day. He saved it all for the last 2 km. taking even Jonas Vingegaard by surprise. He took back much of his deficit on the yellow jersey today. He put himself back in the race.

With 2.5K to go on the climb to Cauterets up the Plateau du Cambasque, Tadej Pogačar attacked Vingegaard with a huge surge. Today’s final stretch hints that this whole tour might come down to seconds. Pogačar ended up 24 seconds ahead of Vingegaard on the stage.

Wout van Aert can lead a race forever. The super-domestique did so much work to set the pace for this entire stage. The pacemaking was literally perfect, many times looking like the only one working. With 4.4 km. to go he finally pulled over and left it up to Vingegaard looking like he had given it every ounce of his being.

Strongest American Rider(s) of the Day

Neilson Powless (EF Education–EasyPost) had a very strong day earning the overall KOM on the climbs.

And Sepp Kuss has been wildly consistent through the tour so far. Today, as usual, he dropped every one of his competitors to bring Jonas Vingegaard up the climbs. He’s easily one of the most valuable riders for Vingegaard.

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Stage Winner : Jai Hindley (Bora–Hansgrohe)

Jai Hindley won Stage 5 of the 2023 Tour de France, claiming the yellow leader’s jersey along with it. It was an eventful first day in the Pyrenees as the top climbers in the world shined and shook up the GC in a big way. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl–Trek) was second in the stage and Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën) came across third on the day. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora–Hansgrohe) was fourth and Jonas Vingegaard was fifth on the stage. Ciccone, Gall, and Buchmann were all 32 seconds behind Hindley and Vingegaard was 34 seconds behind the stage winner.

Jai Hindley put himself in the right breakaway and made all the correct moves on Stage 5 to rocket himself to the stage victory and the yellow jersey. It was an absolutely brilliant day in the saddle for the Australian, who said after the race that he was merely “improvising.” Hindley is no stranger to wearing the leader’s jersey at a Grand Tour; he won the 2022 Giro d’Italia. This may not necessarily be just one quick day in yellow tomorrow for Hindley. More on that in a bit.

When Jonas Vingegaard attacked off the wheels of his teammate Sepp Kuss on the Col de Marie Blanque with 19K to go in the stage, it was our first opportunity of the Tour to see if co-favorite Tadej Pogačar had the legs to match him. He did not. Vingegaard blazed ahead up the climb and maintained that advantage even on the descent of the Col de Marie Blanque. All told, Vingegaard finished 1:04 ahead of Pogačar on the stage, and is 53 seconds up on him in the GC.

Pogačar is in a tough position after Stage 5, now 53 seconds behind the reigning Tour champion Vingegaard. Pogačar, who won the Tour de France in 2020 and 2021, has a lot of work to do over the next few weeks to attempt a comeback on Vingegaard. Pogačar suffered a fractured wrist in April and lost some time on the bike while he recovered. Is that lost fitness the difference maker here?

Could it be the 47 seconds that Vingegaard surrendered to Hindley? Hindley is, of course, a former Grand Tour winner and not a rider to be taken lightly. It may have been a bit surprising that the Bora–Hansgrohe rider was allowed to get in the breakaway that eventually launched Hindley to the win. But that was the calculation that the Jumbo-Visma and UAE Team Emirates squads made. It’s possible that Thursday’s stage—once again in the Pyranees— is Hindley’s lone day in the yellow jersey. It’s also possible that Hindley is in yellow for much longer than that. Never doubt the power of the maillot jaune.

The Moment of the Day

The official Tour de France YouTube has made some great highlight videos. But they’ve also been great about showing fans the terrific raw—erm, unedited—emotion that the Tour brings out. Take the above video of Hindley after the stage as evidence.

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Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) claimed his second stage win of the 2023 Tour de France, sprinting to the Stage 4 victory on Tuesday. It was a crash-marred last 5K after a very slow day in the peloton. Philipsen’s Alpecin-Deceuninck team once again delivered a great leadout and Philipsen had the legs at the end to hold off a hard-charging Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny). Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) was third across the line to make for the same three men on the podium as Stage 3 (just flip Ewan and Bauhaus).

Alpecin-Deceuninck continued to assert its dominance, claiming the stage win for a second straight day. But Stage 4 was a lot different than Stage 3, despite both days being relatively flat stages. The Stage 4 finish on the motorsport track, Circuit Paul Armagnac created plenty of chaos, which saw three different crashes in the final 2K. But the Alpecin team once again held strong and Mathieu van der Poel emerged at just the right moment to deliver Philipsen to his second win in as many days.

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Jasper Philipsen won Stage 3 of the Tour de France, capturing a sprint victory over Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) and Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Dstny). Philipsen received a terrific leadout from his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Mathieu van der Poel and was delivered to the finish in great position to use his power to take the stage win.

It was a bit of a controversial finish, as race organizers took a little while after the finish before declaring Philipsen as the stage winner officially. There was some question about whether Philipsen drifted into Wout Van Aert’s line in the closing meters of the finish. Ultimately, there would be no relegation and Philipsen was given the stage victory.

Winner of the Day

It’s Alpecin-Deceuninck. Who is going to be able to beat this team when Mathieu freakin’ van der Poel is providing a picture perfect leadout? Meanwhile, Philipsen’s speed these days seems to be the best in the world. Between Philipsen and MVDP, we likely haven’t seen the last stage win for Alpecin in this Tour.

Biggest Loss of the Day

This goes to Wout Van Aert and Jumbo-Visma for a second straight day . After a miscalculation in the sprint finish on Sunday’s Stage 2, Van Aert missed out on another good opportunity to grab a stage win on Monday’s Stage 3. This sprint, however, was a little different—and maybe he has a complaint for the ASO. Neck and neck with Philipsen in the closing meters, Van Aert looked to be running out of room between Philipsen and the barriers. Van Aert let up—possibly to avoid a crash?—and Philipsen rode to the stage win (though there was a fairly lengthy delay before race officials declared Philipsen the winner). Did Philipsen impede Van Aert? Watch for yourself and you be the judge.

Touching Moment of the Day

This came from the Arkéa–Samsic team car as the lone holdout of the breakaway, Laurent Pichon, rode solo through the streets of Spain. Over the radio the team told Pichon: “I’m so proud of you. You are a warrior. You give us so much great emotion. Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy! I love you very much.”

Pinchon, for his efforts on the day, was given the combativity award—and rightfully so. How can you not get emotional about the Tour de France?

Celebration(s) of the Day

Nothing against Philipsen’s fist pump as he crossed the finish line of Stage 3, but let’s give it up for Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost). The American, once again, spent the majority of the day in the breakaway to gain precious King of the Mountains points to retain his polka dot jersey. He summiting all four climbs first and gave the fans a nice waving of his arms at the top—a rare mid-race celebration that we can all appreciate! Powless claimed the maximum seven KOM points on offer on Stage 3 and extended his lead in the competition as we head into another sprint stage on Tuesday.

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Stage Winner : Victor Lafay (Cofidis)

Victor Lafay won Stage 2 of the 2023 Tour de France. The Cofidis rider broke free of the lead group of riders that included many of the race favorites with 1K to go in the Tour’s longest stage (208.9K). It was a surprise victory for Lafay, who managed to hold off a hard-charging Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogačar in the waning meters to capture his first-career stage win.

Victor Lafay and the whole Cofidis team are easily the biggest winners of the day. It’s been 15 years since the French team has won a stage in the Tour de France, and on Sunday, Lafay came through in thrilling fashion to get Cofidis the win on the day. With Van Aert in the reduced peloton coming to the finish, Lafay knew his only shot of taking the stage would be by launching an early attack. He went with 1K to go, and thanks to a bit of misjudgement on Van Aert’s part and some pure guts on Lafay’s part, he won the sprint and earned the first stage win for Cofidis since Sylvain Chavanel in 2008.

It’s unquestionably Wout Van Aert and the Jumbo-Visma squad for missing a surefire opportunity at a stage win. Jumbo had both the numbers and the speed in the reduced peloton for the bunch sprint at the end. But the tactics just weren’t there for the Dutch superteam. Van Aert made his emotions known just as he crossed the finish line, slamming his handlebars, knowing full well he left it too late to take his tenth career TdF stage win.

Another Big Day for the American

Neilson Powless will keep the polka dot jersey for another day—and it’s been well-earned. The American riding for EF Education-EasyPost got himself in the break and banked key King of the Mountains points. Powless was first over four climbs that offered points and he now holds a four-point lead over Tadej Pogačar in the KOM competition. It looked for a time that Powless might be able to hold out for the stage win—and perhaps a shot at the yellow jersey. But a motivated peloton brought him back on the last major climb of the day.

Carapaz Abandons

After a Stage 1 crash involving Enric Mas (Movistar) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) forced Mas to abandon the 2023 Tour de France, Carapaz was able to limp to the finish of the opening stage. But unfortunately for the Ecuadorian national champion, he wouldn’t start Sunday’s second stage, suffering a fractured kneecap. It’s never fun to see two of the peloton’s top stars leave the Tour after just one stage.

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Stage Winner : Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates)

Adam Yates (UAE team Emirates) claimed Stage 1 of the 2023 Tour de France, winning an unusually difficult opening stage and claiming the race’s first yellow jersey. Adam Yates outlasted his twin brother, Simon Yates (Jayco–AlUla), as the two riders broke free after the final climb of the day.

It’s gotta be the Yates family, right? There simply cannot be a better feeling for Adam and Simon’s loved ones than watching the two twin brothers battle it out for not only a stage win in the Tour de France, but also the maillot jaune.

Who Was the Other Biggest Winner of the Day?

We’ve never seen a Grand Départ this tough before—and we’re better for it. An opening stage prologue or short time trial always felt like a bit of a tease. It was always the Tour, but was it really the Tour?

Instead this year, we didn’t have to wait too long for the fireworks. There was a nervousness in the peloton that is normally reserved for later in the race. With the prize of a guaranteed yellow jersey for the stage winner at the end, anything could happen. The punchy climbs of the Basque region of Spain—particularly the last three—provided some terrific Stage 1 excitement.

The downside of an action-packed first stage is the inevitability of a crash and that’s just what we saw on the descent of the Côte de Vivero. Enric Mas (Movistar Team) and Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost) went down with around 23K to go in the stage. Mas entered the Tour as a top podium threat and was ultimately forced to abandon, while Carapaz managed to get back on his bike and finish the stage, but lost enough time to take him out of podium contention.

Top American of the Day

Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) will become the first American to wear the polka dot jersey since Nate Brown in 2017. Powless, who very nearly claimed the yellow jersey at the Tour last year, was first across the top of the second category Côte de Vivero. Powless figures to be a major player in the mountains classification—and Saturday marks a strong start for him.

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Results have arrived, tour de france explained: how you win & how it really works.

What do the yellow, green, and polka-dot jerseys mean? How do you win? How do teams work? Who are the favorites? We explain bike racing in this guide to the Tour de France.

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Written by: Spencer Powlison & Bruce Lin

Published on: Jun 22, 2023

Posted in: Features

Did you just get bitten by the  road bike  bug? Did you watch Tour de France: Unchained and feel hungry for more? Or have you always been puzzled by the daily deluge of Tour de France news? Then this beginner’s guide is for you.

We’ll cover the fundamentals of how this “game” is played. Also, we’ll delve into cycling’s paradoxical balance between being simultaneously a team sport and an individual sport, and many ways riders and teams play to win. 

If you’re a seasoned cycling fan, please feel free to share this with your curious in-laws who always email you questions about pelotons, yellow jerseys, and more. We’ve all been there before!

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How The Tour de France Works

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What is the Tour de France

  • The Tour de France is the world's most prestigious bike race which has been running for over 100 years. 
  • The Tour takes riders all across France, through the Alps and the Pyranees, and finishes in Paris. 
  • This year it will take place: July 1 - July 23, 2023
  • The total race distance this year: 3,404 Km / 2,115 Mi 
  • The Grand Départ - The Tour de France often starts somewhere outside of France so other cities and countries can experience the excitement of the Tour. This year, the Tour will start in Bilbao, Spain. 

Key Details 

  • 22 pro cycling teams will compete with 8 riders each ( 176 riders total )
  • The race is split into 21 stages
  • Riders race 1 stage per day
  • Each stage has a stage winner. Winning a single stage at the Tour is a big deal. 
  • On average, racers will ride over 100 miles per stage .
  • Riders will get 2 rest days , one after the first week, and another after the second week.  
  • The overall winner of the Tour de France is the rider with the fastest time after all 21 stages . 

How To Win The Tour de France - Yellow Jersey

The Tour de France's yellow jersey

The winner of the Tour de France is the rider who has the fastest time after all 21 stages. Every stage is timed from start to finish, and every second counts toward the race's General Classification (GC). Every day, the current leader of the race will wear the yellow jersey so they are easy to spot. The rider wearing the yellow jersey when the race reaches the last stage Paris is the winner . 

Riders to watch:  2022 winner Jonas Vingegaard, 2020 & 2021 winner Tadej Pogačar, David Gaudu, Romain Bardet.

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Other Ways to "Win" at the Tour de France

The Yellow Jersey is the biggest prize, but there are multiple secondary prizes on offer too. Some teams and riders don’t even bother racing for the yellow jersey and instead focus on these prizes . 

Just like the yellow jersey, each day, the current leader in each classification wears a special jersey color so they're easy to spot.

Points Classification - Green Jersey

Tour de France sprinter's green jersey

Also known as the sprinter’s jersey , this award goes to the rider who scores the most points throughout the race. Points are earned by finishing in the top-15 in a stage.

This classification favors “pure” sprinters (riders who don't compete on mountain stages), and more points are offered for winning flat stages. Riders can also earn points in mid-stage sprints that are usually stationed in towns to please the fans.

Riders to watch:  Wout van Aert, Fabio Jakobsen, Jasper Philipsen, Mads Pedersen, and Dylan Groenewegen.

King Of The Mountains Classification - Polka-Dot Jersey

Tour de France polka-dot King of the Mountains jersey

The Tour gives the polka-dot “ King of the Mountains ” jersey to the rider who collects the most points over the course of the race by reaching the summit of categorized climbs first.

The climb categorization system is opaque and subjective. What you need to know is that there are five climb categories. From easiest to hardest they are: category 4,  category 3,  category 2,  category 1, and hors category (HC - French for “beyond categorization”). Riders get more points on harder climbs. Riders also get more points on mountaintop stage finishes, especially if they win.

Riders to watch:  This one is tough to call until you reach the high mountains. Often anyone who’s in contention for the yellow jersey is a good bet.

Other Prizes

Tour de France best young rider jersey, team classification, and combativity award

Best Young Rider Classification - White Jersey

This classification works the same way as the yellow jersey but is awarded to the highest-placed rider under 26 years of age. On rare occasions, a phenomenal young rider will win both the yellow and white jerseys. 

Riders to watch: Tadej Pogačar, Jonas Vingegaard.

Best Team Classification - Yellow Helmets

Like the yellow or white jerseys, this award is given based on overall time in the race and the team with the lowest overall time wins this prize . Each team tabulates the finish times of its three best riders on every stage. The team leading this classification usually wears yellow helmets, helping them stand out in the bunch.

Most Aggressive Rider - Red Number

Also known as the Combativity Award , this is likely the most mysterious prize in the Tour. In every stage (except time trials), a jury decides which rider in the race was most aggressive — usually, that means attacking a lot or gambling on a breakaway. Late in the broadcast, the announcers usually note which rider was given the combativity prize. If you spot a rider with a red number on their jersey, then he was named most aggressive the stage prior. At the end of the Tour, one rider gets the Super Combativity award.

How Cycling Is Actually a Team Sport... Sort Of

Teamwork in the Tour de France

Why are there teams if only one rider can win the Tour de France? Professional road cycling has a curious tension between the team and the individual. The key thing to remember is this: If a cyclist wins a stage or holds one of the leader’s jersey for a single stage, it is viewed as a team success . 

So if only one rider “wins,” what do the other seven riders on the team do to contribute to this elusive concept of teamwork? Here are some ways a group of individual cyclists comes together as a team to support their leader:

  • Getting into breakaways (small groups that attack off the front of the main group) — that way his team doesn’t have to work to chase the breakaway down.
  • Chasing down breakaways — to give the leader a chance to win or place well.
  • Retrieving food and water for the leader or other key riders — bottle service on the road … what could be more luxurious!
  • Pacing the leader up key climbs — although drafting isn’t as crucial, it can be a psychological advantage to have a teammate at your side.
  • Pacing the leader back to the peloton in the event of a crash, mechanical, or split in the group — without teammates to draft, it might be nearly impossible to rejoin the peloton on some fast-paced stages.
  • Giving the leader their bike or a wheel in the event of a mechanical — this can often be quicker than waiting for a team car or neutral support to show up with a spare.

What Types of Riders Make Up a Team? 

GC (general classification) riders - These are the riders vying for the Tour de France overall win. They need to be solid all-rounders who are good climbers and time trialists. They are usually the team leader and the rest of the team works to support them. 

Sprinters - Sprinters don’t contend for the overall win, and are more interested in winning individual stages. They often wait to attack at intermediate sprints and the finish line of each stage. Some teams are built entirely around a sprinter and focus on winning stages or the green jersey. 

Climbers - Climbing specialists excel at going uphill. Climbers compete for stage wins on the tough mountain stages or work to support their GC leader in the mountains. 

Domestiques - Most riders on the team will work as “domestiques” to support their team leader. They allow their leader to draft behind them to conserve energy, pace them up climbs, carry food and water, and provide support in case of crashes or mechanicals. 

Time Trialists - Some riders specialize in time trialing. They can compete for wins on time trial stages or work as powerful domestiques on flat and hilly stages  

What Types of Stages Are in the Tour?

The Tour de France route is different every year. Each stage is unique and offers different challenges to the riders. Here are the types of stages riders will contend with over three weeks:

Flat Stages - Flat stages are the ideal hunting ground for sprinters. Teams with sprinters will often work to keep the peloton together on flat stages, to ensure it ends in a bunch sprint where their sprinter has the best chance of winning. 

Hilly Stages - Hilly stages mix it up with rolling hills that make it more difficult for the peloton to stay together. These types of stages can be won by sprinters, climbers, or breakaway specialists. 

Mountain Stages - This is often where the Tour de France is won and lost. Mountain stages climb up into the high mountains in the Alps and the Pyrenees and it's where GC contenders will fight to gain time on their rivals.  

Time Trials - The Tour de France always features at least a couple of time trial stages. Riders set off individually to set the fastest time on a set course. With no riders to draft, it’s less about race tactics and more about pure speed and power.

Strategies and tactics

Tour de France strategy and tactics

So we just covered some team dynamics, rider types, and stage types. How does it all fit together? Teams often settle on strategies prior to the race. They assess their strengths and weaknesses and find ways to succeed — whether that means winning the yellow jersey or simply wearing a King of the Mountains jersey for just one stage. Here are some examples of how teams might set their strategies, and how they might execute them with the right tactics:

Team with a top GC rider: Naturally, they’ll try to win the yellow jersey. This means surviving inconsequential flat and rolling stages to conserve energy for key mountain stages and individual time trials. The leader’s teammates will try to get into breakaways so that their team won’t spend energy chasing all day. They’ll also set up the team leader to attack on key climbs or at least follow his rivals to defend his position.

Team with top sprinter: To win the green jersey, they’ll target the flat stages. This means controlling the peloton and chasing down breakaways to set up a sprint finish. Like the GC team, they might also put a rider in the breakaway to ease the burden on the team, forcing rival sprint teams to chase. On mountain stages, the team might have to call riders back from the peloton to help pace their sprinter to the finish so he doesn’t get time-cut.

Team with top climber: Winning the King of the Mountains (KOM) classification is often less of an obvious team effort. These pretenders to the throne tend to be opportunistic. However, it is advantageous to have a teammate in the breakaway on a key mountain stage when points are up for grabs. Also, when defending the polka-dot jersey, teammates can contest the climbs and finish ahead of KOM rivals to spoil their attempt to take over the classification lead by scoring points.

Smaller team without top leader: These are the teams that always try to put a rider in the day’s breakaway. This could earn them the Combativity Prize, or if they play their cards right, a stint in a leader’s jersey or even a stage win. This strategy requires constant attacking in the early kilometers of the race — something most fans rarely see on the broadcast. It is a hectic, painful part of the stage, but it’s crucial in establishing a break. Meanwhile, a breakaway rider’s teammates might patrol the front of the peloton to disrupt the chase.

Three Tips To Watch Like A Pro

Watching the Tour de France as a fan

Now that you understand the basics of how the Tour de France is raced, what do you, the new cycling fan do? There are daily stages for three weeks. That’s a lot of cycling!

Even if you don't have a way to watch the TV broadcast, it's easy to find highlights and extended highlights on YouTube. Fortunately, you don’t have to put your life on hold to watch the Tour de France. There are some reliably important stages you can focus on to catch the key action.

Can’t watch daily? Pick the key mountain stages. There are usually about 5-8 key mountain stages when the overall race is won and lost. Most of them are summit finishes, and they’re split between France’s two key mountain ranges: the Alps and Pyrenees. The first few ordinarily come in stages 6-9 before the first rest day, and the second round is often scheduled for the final week of racing. Occasionally, another summit finish, such as Mont Ventoux in Provence, will be on the list of important stages.

Watching daily? Tune in when things really heat up. On most flat stages, you can wait until the final 20 kilometers to tune in and see the sprinters fight it out. Some rolling stages might be entertaining in the final 50-60 kilometers if late breakaways occur. On mountain stages, it’s best to start watching as early as possible because sometimes, crazy things happen on the day’s first climbs.

Watching a LOT of TDF? Look for the nuances. If you’re going to have the race on all day, every day, you’ll need to dig a little deeper to enjoy the subtleties of the race. Try keeping track of riders who are often making the breakaway. Watch the sprint teams work together — or not — to chase an escape. Who looks to have strength in numbers, and who is not present at the front of the race? Are the GC riders staying out of trouble or tail-gunning at the dangerous back of the peloton? Usually, at any given time in the race, any given rider is positioned where they are for a specific reason. Look for clues to sort out what is happening.

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Jonas Vingegaard wins Tour de France for 2nd straight year

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Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France for the second straight year as cycling's most storied race finished Sunday on the famed Champs-Élysées in Paris.

With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, the 2020 and 2021 winner, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively his again before the largely ceremonial stage at the end of the 110th edition of the Tour.

Vingegaard drank champagne with his Visma-Jumbo teammates as they lined up together and posed for photos on the way to Paris.

"It's been an amazing year. What a Tour de France for us," Vingegaard said. "We started the plans early, and once again, I could not have done it without my team. It's been an amazing Tour for us, and I'm so proud of every one of us.

"Tonight we will celebrate, have a good dinner. It will be a nice evening. Thanks to my opponents, who have been amazing. It's been an amazing three weeks fighting with you guys."

It had been a three-week slog over 2,116 miles with eight mountain stages across five mountain ranges. Vingegaard seized control of the race over two stages in the Alps.

Little had separated the two rivals until Vingegaard finished a time trial 1 minute, 38 seconds ahead of Pogačar on Tuesday, then followed up the next day by finishing the toughest mountain stage of the race almost six minutes ahead of his exhausted rival.

"I'm dead," said the 24-year-old Pogačar, who won the white jersey as the best under-25 rider for the fourth year in a row.

The Slovenian rider responded by winning the penultimate stage Saturday, but Vingegaard still had an insurmountable lead of 7 minutes, 29 seconds going into the final stage -- a mostly ceremonial event that is contested at the end by the sprinters.

Belgian cyclist Jordi Meeus won the final stage in a photo finish between four riders on the line, just ahead of Jasper Philipsen, Dylan Groenewegen and Mads Pedersen.

"It was my first Tour. It was a super-nice experience already so far, and to take the win today is an incredible feeling," Meeus said.

British cyclist and Pogačar teammate Adam Yates took third place overall, while Belgian rider Jasper Philipsen won the green jersey for the points classification and Italian competitor Giulio Ciccone took the polka-dot jersey for the mountains classification.

Vingegaard's Jumbo-Visma won the teams classification.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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It’s a different Tour, for everyone and in every aspect. The scorching hot temperatures in July will be replaced by the final rays of summer sunshine, ending on September 20th. Crowds will be less numerous -not only because of the pandemic, which restricts tourism, but also since July traditionally is the holiday month for French people-, and fans won’t have as much contact with the riders as usual. Security measures will be stronger than ever. And despite all of that, and the stress this race puts on the entire cycling convoy, everyone is wishing for the race to finally take place. Because with the Tour, with its coming to fruition, the entire sport ensures its biggest moment of protagonism yearly is once again guaranteed in this difficult 2020.

However, the route won’t change a thing from the original July schedule. The Grand Départ will be held in Nice, with two lumpy stages, most importantly day two (Sunday 30th), over the cols of la Colmiane (Cat-1), Turini (Cat-1), Èze (Cat-2) and Quatre Chemins (B), the latter just 9km from the finish. The first mountain-top finish will come on stage 4 (Tuesday 1st September), with the climb to Orcières-Merlette (Cat-1; 7.1km, 6.7%) preceded by four other ascents. And on day six (Thursday 3rd), a finish strongly resembling another MT-F: the Mont Aigoual (non-categorized; 8.2km, 4%), just after the Col de la Lusette (Cat-1 + B; 11.7km, 7.3%).

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The Pyrenees, the first big mountain block in this year’s Tour, will be brief (two days) and seemingly not as decisive . Loudenvielle will hold the finish of stage eight (Sunday 5th), after the cols of Menté (Cat-1), Balès (HC) and the Peyresourde (Cat-1 + B) , after which the riders will descent straight to the end. Then, on stage nine (Sunday 6th), the Soudet-Issarbe (Cat-1; called Hourcère for this race) and the suffocating Marie-Blanque (Cat-1 + B) could be the perfect terrain for either the race contenders of a breakaway -which is usually the case in mountainous stages at the ‘Grande Boucle’, where the strongest escapees take most wins-.

Following the first rest day and two flat stages -watch out for the Île de Ré finish on Tuesday 8th, with the peloton always near the Atlantic coast-, the race will enter the Massif Central through the Suc au May (Cat-2 + B), en route to Sarran (Thursday 10th), and will leave with a demanding stage 13 (Friday 11th), overcoming seven climbs and finishing atop the Puy Mary (Cat-1; 5.4km, 8.1%). After that,  Sunday 13th , the peloton will make a short incursion in the Jura mountains with  a key stage , over the Selle de Fromentel (Cat-1), the Col de la Biche (Cat-1) and  a tough finish up the Grand Colombier (HC; 17.4km, 7.1%).

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That will be only one of four consecutive mountain stages. Heading into the Alps , on Tuesday 15th, the race will get to Villard-de-Lans (Cat-3) after the Col de Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte (Cat-1 + B; 11.1km, 6.5%). Five ascents on stage 16 to anticipate huge vertical gains and altitude on Wednesday 16, with La Madeleine (HC) and the Col de la Loze (HC; 21.5km, 7.8%), another big finish on stage 17 . And to cap off the Alpine block, a restless ride on Thursday 17th, with five categorized climbs: Cormet de Roselend (Cat-1), Route des Villes (Cat-3), Saisies (Cat-2), Aravis (Cat-1) and the Plateau des Glières (HC + B), including a short gravel road section, 35km from the finish in La Roche-sur-Foron.

Actually, aren’t we missing anything? Yes, we do: time trials . It’s the least TT-populated Tour a generation can remember. There will only be one time trial, an individual one, on the penultimate day of racing, and it finishes uphill. La Planche des Belles Filles (Cat-1; 6km, 8.5%) will crown a 36km ITT just 24 hours away from París (Saturday 19th) . A ‘City of Light’ the riders will reach, this time strictly and not metaphorically, as the summer ends, as Salvador Dalí once said.

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Tour de France – The Rules Explained

Tour de France – The Rules Explained

Some teams will focus on the general classification Yellow Jersey, whereas others will focus on winning sprints for The Green or the King of the Mountains Spotted Jersey. There are many rules, both spoken and unspoken, as teams stand to gain a lot from cooperation and respect. Here is what you need to know to enjoy watching Le Tour.

Keep the leaders safe

The start of Le Tour is always an edgy affair as teams compete to establish themselves at the head of the peloton. Crashes and injuries are a real risk, so team leaders need to be protected by their domestiques who effectively muscle everyone else away.

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The irony is, the more the teams muscle each other away, the greater the risk of crashes in the peloton. The safest place to be is the front, and everyone is fighting to be there. This Catch 22 situation is almost impossible to mitigate through any official rules, but it’s exciting to watch.

The Yellow Jersey

Winning the General Classification (GC) means you get to wear The Maillot Jaune, aka The Yellow Jersey. To win the GC the leader of a race team must complete all the stages with the lowest overall time.

This means that a GC contender should be a solid all-rounder, equally at home on the mountains as they are in time-trial stages. It can become confusing when you consider a rider could win the GC without winning any individual stage.

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Think of it like this – Mark Cavendish may win every flat stage suited to a sprinter, but will probably finish mountain stages at least 20 minutes behind the likes of Nairo Quintana, whereas Quintana will finish a sprint stage within 3 minutes of Cavendish.

Breaks and stage wins

Regardless of who wins the overall Yellow Jersey, an individual stage win on Le Tour is always a special event, and smaller teams will often target one or two specific stages out of the Tour simply to get on the podium. Breaks are the coolest way to achieve that, but not the easiest.

Early on in a stage you may see a small group of riders attempt a break. Usually these are lower order riders with nothing to lose – they keep their sponsors happy by grabbing TV coverage, and most of the time they’re easily caught by the peloton that uses energy much more efficiently.

Royal Breaks

That doesn’t mean that Yellow and Green Jersey contenders can’t have some fun going for a break, but they’re only likely to do it when conditions go in their favour – and in 2016 that’s exactly what Froome and Sagan exploited.

Stage 11 of Le Tour was plagued with crosswinds, so the peloton had been doing their best to speed through it. Sagan found himself at the front with Thomas, Bodnar, and Froome. The Peloton was battered and bruised from minor crashes down the coastal route from Carcasonne, so when Sagan attacked, few cyclists felt confident enough to respond.

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Froome leapt on Sagan’s wheel, and Bodnar and Thomas read the situation and realised a fully-fledged Royal Break was on the cards, with both the Yellow and Green Jerseys of Froome and Sagan committed to escaping the peloton. Sagan won the stage, and Froome put a significant dent into his rivals for the Yellow Jersey, finishing the stage in 2nd place.

King of the Mountains

Points are given at the top of climbs for suitably impressive performance, so specialist climbers have an advantage. Climbs are categorised from 1 to 4, with 1 being the steepest. The numbers loosely correspond to the gears of a car – so to drive up a Cat 1 climb you’d need to stick your car in first gear.

Race planners may give big points at the top of a Cat 3 climb if it’s deemed long enough to pose the same challenge as a shorter Cat 1 climb. I should add that there is one climb more difficult than a Cat 1 climb – the Hors Catégorie (HC). An HC climb is beyond categorisation and originally described a climb so severe a car couldn’t pass.

Getting points for the Green Jersey

Points can be given for winning sprints at various parts of a stage, often early on to encourage teams to either up the tempo in the peloton or break early in the hopes the break may succeed.

More points are given to the sprint at the end of the stage, and this encourages teams with specialist sprinters like Sagan, Greipel, Kittel, or Cavendish to stay together. This leads to a similar paradox of teams trying to dominate the front of the peloton to give their team leader a clear run at the finish line.

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The classic race rule applies – the rider with the racing line may stick to it knowing that any competing cyclist will yield their line when they realise they have the disadvantage. Naturally, this doesn’t always work in the heat of the moment and spectacular crashes are a real risk in bunch sprints.

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Tour de France 2023 - Comprehensive team-by-team guide

A full rundown of all the teams, their leaders, and riders to watch at this year's race

Wout van Aert offers a bidon to Jonas Vingegaard during the 2022 Tour de France.

This is your comprehensive team-by-team guide of all 22 teams and 176 riders competing in the 2023 Tour de France, which starts in Bilbao on Saturday, July 1.

All 18 WorldTour teams and the two best-ranked ProTeams, Lotto Dstny and TotalEnergies, are automatically invited. Race organisers ASO also gave wildcard entries to Israel-Premier Tech and Uno-X.

Budgets, calibre of riders and pre-race goals vary immensely. UAE-Team Emirates, led by their superstar Tadej Pogačar, are squarely focused on Tour de France glory.

Other teams, such as Lidl-Trek and Alpecin-Deceuninck, are gunning for stage victories. There are those, like Uno-X and Cofidis, who will regularly be up the road in breakaways, dreaming of an unlikely Tour stage triumph. Then there’s Jumbo-Visma, the team of defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and green jersey winner Wout van Aert, who could feasibly challenge for every stage.

Circumstances such as crashes, COVID-19 positive and mechanical problems can quickly change pre-race ambitions.

Whatever happens on the road between Bilbao and Paris, every team will want to make an impression and enjoy success. We look through every squad, assessing their leaders, objectives and chances of success.

AG2R-Citroën

  • Team leader: Ben O’Connor
  • Objective: GC and stage wins
  • Rider to watch: Benoît Cosnefroy

It’s a big test for Ben O’Connor as he seeks to back-up his breakthrough fourth place from 2021. Last year’s Tour was crash-addled, most damagingly for his ambitions on the cobbled stage to Arenberg where he dropped over three minutes to his fellow contenders. He abandoned before stage 10 with a torn glute.

This season has gone more smoothly. The man from Perth was sixth at the Tour Down Under and finished third at June’s Critérium du Dauphiné, coming into form at the right time.

The 27-year-old will be shepherded in the winds and on the flat by Belgian bodyguard Oliver Naesen but Greg Van Avermaet, who was not selected for a final Tour de France ride before he retires.

Giro d'Italia stage winner Aurélien Paret-Peintre doubles up while there is a Tour debut for former junior world champion Felix Gall. The Austrian climber shone at the Tour de Suisse, winning a stage.

In the French team’s 30th Tour appearance, stage wins will not be sacrificed in the name of GC ambitions. A triumph in the race’s final week, on a stage close to their Alpine base in Chambéry, would send them into raptures.

Alpecin-Deceuninck

  • Team leaders: Jasper Philipsen, Mathieu van der Poel
  • Objective: Stage wins
  • Riders to watch: The leaders

Alpecin-Deceuninck only joined the WorldTour this season but they’ve been outperforming most top-tier teams for years, including in their two previous Tour de France performances.

No GC rider? No worries. In Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel, they have two of the sport’s stars and prime candidates for stage wins.

The flying Dutchman was the man of the spring with his Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix triumphs. He was unusually off colour at last year’s Tour but after a lighter racing schedule this time round, missing out on the Giro d'Italia, we can expect a different Van der Poel. He will be hoping for another stage win or spell in the yellow jersey to match his 2021 performance.

Additionally, Van der Poel can be an ultimate domestique deluxe and lead-out supporter for Philipsen. The Belgian sprinter has six wins in the bag this year, including a recent one outgunning rival Fabio Jakobsen at the Baloise Belgium Tour. In a closely-matched field of fast men, he’s a nose ahead of the rest.

Philipsen broke his Tour duck with sprint wins in Carcassonne and on the Champs-Elysées last year. There ought to be more victories this time round and a clearer shot at the green jersey, given Wout van Aert’s uncertainty about finishing the Tour due to the forthcoming birth of his second child.

New to the team this season, Søren Kragh Andersen could also threaten on rolling breakaway days. His paymasters would no doubt love a repeat of his Tour stage brace from 2020.

Astana Qazaqstan

  • Team leaders: Mark Cavendish, Alexey Lutsenko

It’s the last dance for Mark Cavendish, a final Tour de France before retiring, one more chance to add to his prolific tally of stage wins. 

Twelve months ago, few would have expected his partner to be the Kazakhstani boys in blue but the team has a new jersey and new ambitions in the sprints.

Cees Bol will serve as a guiding light in the hectic bunch sprint finales. If the Giro d’Italia is anything to go by, there will be times the “Manx Missile” is surfing other lead-out trains in the final kilometres too.

Cavendish took a hard-fought stage win in Rome after fighting over the mountains. There ought to be more opportunities for sprint success at the Tour than the Giro, but an even higher level of rivals too. 

Taking a 35th Tour de France stage win to move above Eddy Merckx in the all-time list would be a fairytale achievement for Cavendish, fourteen years since his first triumph. 

The 38-year-old is just as determined as day one, even if the super-powered lead-out and devastating acceleration of his heyday are not quite there. Whether Cavendish achieves it or not will likely define Astana Qazaqstan’s race.

Alexey Lutsenko will be the team’s GC man, looking to improve on his seventh and eighth place finishes in 2021 and 2022.

Things surely can’t go worse than last year’s anonymous performance. Astana Qazaqstan featured in few breakaways or stage top-10s. They finished bottom of the race-ending prize list, earning a meagre €15,000 – barely enough to cover the team bus petrol expenses.

Bahrain Victorious

  • Team leaders: Mikel Landa, Pello Bilbao
  • Riders to watch: Fred Wright, Matej Mohoric

Bahrain Victorious have a variety of different options in their well-rounded line-up. 

Experienced Basque climber Mikel Landa will be leading their challenge. A fourth place finisher in 2017 and 2020, he will surely be in the fight for a similar finish this time round. The lack of time-trial kilometres plays massively in his favour.

Bahrain Victorious won the team classification in 2021 and they have one of the most formidable climbing line-ups here. Landa’s fellow Basque, Pello Bilbao, offers back-up and a Plan B, showing his good legs at the Tour de Suisse.

They’ll be gunning for a stage win or two, having gone away empty-handed from a 2022 edition damaged by Jack Haig’s race-ending crash on the cobbles.

Affected by COVID-19 last summer, Matej Mohorič is back to his best and attacking Briton Fred Wright offers another versatile option for breakaways.

Bahrain Victorious are still grieving the loss of Gino Mäder. They will be riding for him after his death following a crash at the Tour de Suisse, determined to dedicate him at least a stage victory.

Bora-Hansgrohe

  • Team leader: Jai Hindley
  • Rider to watch: The leader

A year after winning the Giro d’Italia, Jai Hindley heads to the 2023 Tour de France with ambitions of adding a maillot jaune to his maglia rosa. He will lead the German team, Bora-Hansgrohe, on a mountainous route that suits his qualities perfectly.

Hindley narrowly missed out on a podium place at the Critérium du Dauphiné, finishing 20 seconds behind Australian compatriot Ben O’Connor (AG2R-Citroën), but he was pleased with his form leading into his main goal of the season.

Acting as key mountain domestiques will be Bob Jungels, winner of stage 9 at last year’s Tour and Emanuel Buchmann, who finished fourth overall at the 2019 edition of the race. 

Bora-Hansgrohe will also be hunting sprint stages with Jungels, Nils Politt and Jordi Meeus. He has surprisingly been given the nod as the sprint option, ahead of former two-time stage winner at the Tour and green jersey winner, Sam Bennett.

Meeus will make his debut at the Tour and will benefit from the luxury of having Danny van Poppel, one of the best lead-out riders in the world, working to launch him to the line on the eight possible sprint stages. 

Van Poppel has succeeded at delivering Bennett into winning positions throughout the last two seasons, but the Irishman has failed to deliver consistent results since claiming a brace of wins at last year’s Vuelta a España.

  • Team leaders: Guillaume Martin, Bryan Coquard
  • Rider to watch: Simon Geschke

The French squad are part of the race furniture at the Tour, making their 27th appearance. But it’s 15 years and counting since their last Tour de France stage win, a breakaway by Sylvain Chavanel.

Last year, they came close. Solo attacker Benjamin Thomas was caught 400 metres from the finish in Carcassonne and Simon Geschke lost the King of the Mountains jersey to Jonas Vingegaard on the last significant mountain stage.

Who can end the drought and heartache? Guillaume Martin is a trusty candidate for a top-10 finish. He has a history of following breakaways and yo-yoing up and down the general classification, gaining time one day, losing it the next. A stage win would arguably be more valuable than a peripheral GC finish.

This is a team geared for breakaways. Veteran climbers Simon Geschke and Ion Izaguirre have won past Tour stages up the road.

There’s also Bryan Coquard to mix it in the punchier bunch sprints. He’s got unfinished business after missing out last year due to a COVID-19 positive.

EF Education-EasyPost

  • Team leader: Richard Carapaz
  • Rider to watch: Neilson Powless

Olympic Champion Richard Carapaz joined EF Education-EasyPost as a proven Grand Tour winner and contender for 2023. The Ecuadorian finished third at the Tour in 2021 behind Pogačar and Vingegaard, and can live with the very best on his day.

Carapaz will ride in the Ecuadorian national champion’s jersey after winning it on his debut for Jonathan Vaughters' team but hasn’t been in the best form throughout 2023. He has only won two races and, despite trying to race aggressively at the Dauphiné, wasn’t able to follow Vingegaard or the rest.

He’ll be backed up by a team focused on solidifying his GC position alongside trying to get into breakaways and capture stages. Alberto Bettiol, Magnus Cort and Neilson Powless are capable of winning on a multitude of parcours.

Cort took a wonderful win into Megève in 2022 and always seems to perform at the biggest races when his team needs it most. 

Powless rode a great Classics, finishing in the top seven of Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders and will be eyeing up a maiden stage win at the Tour and perhaps an early spell in the yellow jersey. 

The American also has great memories in the Basque Country, having won the Clásica San Sebastián in 2021, so should be on show in the first week.

Groupama-FDJ

  • Team leader: David Gaudu
  • Rider to watch: Thibaut Pinot

Groupama-FDJ had a controversial initial roster announcement for the Tour de France, due to the omission of top French sprinter, Arnaud Démare, and the focus placed primarily on David Gaudu’s general classification hopes. 

Team manager Marc Madiot’s decision to leave Démare out was curious given how there could be as many as eight chances for the sprinters.

Gaudu finished a career-best fourth in last year’s Tour and will be hoping to go one better and reach the podium. His form has, however, fluctuated throughout 2023 with an impressive second place finish at Paris-Nice being offset by an underwhelming 30th at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné.

Stefan Küng will be on domestique duty as a rouleur and versatile puncheur and new French national champion Valentin Madouas will play a key support role in the mountains.

The French team will still hunt stages through the likes of Quentin Pacher, who was excellent at last year’s Vuelta a España and finished in the top six on four stages.

Thibaut Pinot will start his final Tour de France after announcing his retirement in January. 

Cycling fans will be willing him to chase stages with the hope he strikes at the Tour one final time. Despite narrowly falling to win a stage at the Giro d’Italia, Pinot won the mountains classification and finished fifth overall on GC, showing he’s more than capable of performing well in the Tour.

If Pinot is unable to achieve a fairytale ending and Gaudu doesn’t replicate his top-four finish, Madiot may rue the decision to snub Démare.

Ineos Grenadiers

  • Team leader: Dani Martínez and Carlos Rodríguez.
  • Objective: GC
  • Rider to watch: Tom Pidcock

We’ve reached a strange moment in the British team’s history as they again lack a clear leader or a top-five favourite. They line-up for the Grand Depart in the Basque Country with former winner Egan Bernal after his long journey back to recovery following his life-threatening crash in 2022, but it’s still too soon to expect a charge for the yellow jersey from the Colombian.

He has performed well in the lead-up, despite recurring knee issues and crashes plaguing his 2023 season, and it was a delight to see Bernal back in the front group in at the Dauphiné where he finished 12th overall.

Bernal’s compatriot Dani Martínez is likely the strongest overall candidate for Ineos despite a lack of form and 23rd overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Ineos will experiment and look to learn for the future with young GC hopes in Tom Pidcock and Carlos Rodríguez. 

Pidcock rode an exciting debut Tour last year with the highlight his victory atop the legendary Alpe d’Huez. He and Ineos want even more this year with another stage win and a top ten overall possible for Pidcock.

Rodríguez finished ninth and Best Young Rider at the Dauphiné and has Grand Tour talent. He has been linked to a move to Movistar for 2024 but a strong ride with Ineos at the Tour could change everything.

Team manager Rod Ellingworth and lead directeur sportif Steve Cummings can count on the experienced Michał Kwiatkowski and Jonathan Castroviejo to protect the leaders across the three weeks. The latter two won their respective national time trial championships in Poland and Spain a week before the start in Bilbao.

Also in the Ineos final eight at Omar Fraile and debutant Ben Turner. 

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  • Team leaders: Biniam Girmay and Louis Meintjes
  • Rider to watch: Biniam Girmay

Biniam Girmay is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated debutant at this year’s Tour de France. 

The Eritrean made history for African cycling by winning Gent-Wevelgem and a stage of the Giro d’Italia last year, and it would be no surprise if he were to write another chapter at this year's Tour.

A rapid finisher with the ability to hang tough on some rugged terrain, Girmay won’t lack opportunities on this Tour, and he warmed up for the main event with a stage victory at the Tour de Suisse. It was a reassuring win for the 23-year-old after a Classics campaign beset by bad luck, and he travels to France with justifiable confidence.

Louis Meintjes quietly rode himself into seventh overall at last year’s Tour, the third top-ten finish of his career, and the South African has the ability and the form to replicate that showing in 2023. His last outing before the Tour came at the Dauphiné, where his consistency carried him to seventh overall again.

Georg Zimmerman, a stage winner at the Dauphiné, also features, alongside former World Champion Rui Costa and Lilian Calmejane. Mike Teunissen, winner on the opening day in 2019, lines up as part of Girmay’s lead-out train with Adrien Petit.

Jumbo-Visma

  • Team leader: Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert
  • Objective: Win the Tour
  • Riders to watch: Christophe Laporte, Sepp Kuss

It was a surprise when Jonas Vingegaard decisively cracked Tadej Pogačar on the Col du Granon last year but he went on to show that he was the strongest in the Tour. 

The Dane was steely, sportsmanlike and unbending in the face of the Slovenian’s numerous attacks. Is there yet more to come from the defending champion this summer?

He has kicked on from his victory, dominating at O Gran Camino and Itzulia Basque Country. Confidence will be high after two stage wins and an emphatic victory at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné. The only blot on his copybook this year is his third place at Paris-Nice, beaten by Pogačar, who could be affected by his fractured wrist.

The Dutch-registered team were the stand-out performers at last year’s race. They became the first team in 25 years to win both the yellow and green jersey. While they have gone from being the hunters to the hunted after their first Tour de France title, the same core team returns in 2023.

Wout van Aert is on board as a Mr. Do-It-All, a leader for bunch sprints, time-trials, punchy hill finishes and key helper for Vingegaard.

As the recent Netflix Tour de France documentary Unchained showed, it’s not always easy for this star-studded squad to accommodate multiple lofty ambitions. However, the Belgian has suggested he won't target the green jersey and could even abandon the race to be present for the birth of his second child.

Fresh off his lieutenant role to Primož Roglič at the Giro d’Italia, American Sepp Kuss will offer invaluable support as last man in the mountains, aided in support by Tiesj Benoot.

Christophe Laporte was a candidate for most improved rider last season. He can climb in the hills, protect on the flat, ride in the wind, sprint and attack to victory, as we saw with his poacher’s stage win in Cahors. A powerful new face in the engine room for Jumbo-Visma is 2022 Paris-Roubaix winner Dylan van Baarle.

Overall, Jumbo-Visma can win on several fronts. Rather than sitting back, they will likely look to capitalise on their strength-in-depth with race-making, proactive moves.

  • Team leader: Enric Mas
  • Rider to watch: Matteo Jorgenson

It will be a special 41st appearance for the long-running Spanish squad with the Grand Depart in the Basque Country, and they will be hoping Mas can bounce back from his underwhelming performance at the 2022 Tour that eventually ended in him abandoning due to COVID-19.

Mas has been far from his best in one-week stages throughout 2023, but he’s rarely entered a Grand Tour with a whole host of big results behind him and tends to bring it together in the three-week tests.

The 28-year-old has on three occasions been runner-up at the Vuelta a España and has finished in the top six of the Tour twice. Mas will be relishing a great chance to podium the Tour with the only time trial being 22km and hilly. 

Alongside Mas will be the versatile Matteo Jorgenson. The young American has been a stand-out in 2023, taking his first professional wins at the Tour of Oman, securing a top ten at the Tour of Flanders and coming second at the Tour de Romandie.

Jorgenson came painstakingly close to a stage win at last year’s Tour, finishing in the top five three times from the break. He could play a support role for Mas while hunting stages if given the freedom.

Movistar will race in a special white ‘iceberg’ kit for the 2023 race which will be auctioned to raise funds for ocean protection, with Gorka Izagirre, Alex Aranburu and Ruben Guerreiro also key riders.

Soudal-QuickStep

  • Team leader: Fabio Jakobsen and Julian Alaphilippe
  • Rider to watch: the leaders

The Belgian team have long been a stage-hunting side at the Tour, often lining up with the best sprinter in the world, be that Mark Cavendish or Marcel Kittel. 

Fabio Jakobsen is the latest sprinter to take up the mantle and he secured his first win at the Tour on debut last year after coming back from a life-threatening crash in 2020.

Jakobsen is one of the fastest sprinters in the peloton but hasn’t quite clicked with the Quickstep lead-out, perhaps due to Michael Mørkøv long absence in the spring due to injury. However the Dane is back for the Tour and is renowned as one of the best in the lead-out business.

Jakobsen took two wins at the Baloise Belgium Tour ahead of the Tour against a top-tier sprint field and will be hoping for much more than his solitary win at the 2022 race.

Soudal-QuickStep will also look to Julian Alaphilippe for stage wins after he missed last year's race due to his terrible Liege-Bastogne-Liege crash. 

The two-time World Champion returned to winning ways at World Tour level at the Dauphiné and sent a message to everyone with his celebration: Calm down, I'm back, he signalled after sprinting easily to victory.

The swashbuckling Frenchman should light up the opening stage in the Basque Country with dreams of another early stint in the yellow jersey.

Arkéa-Samsic

  • Team leader: Warren Barguil
  • Rider to watch: Clement Champoussin

The French team have long been a recipient of one of the wildcard invitations to the Tour de France but after being awarded WorldTour status at the end of the 2022 season, they have automatically qualified for their home race.

Significant moves were made in their ambitions after signing French rider Warren Barguil to lead them at the Tour from 2018 onwards, but the talented climber hasn’t yet won them a stage. He’s more than capable and twice finished in the top-four of stages at the Giro d’Italia this season, so there’s still hope for 'Wawa.'

Clément Champoussin and Luca Mozzato will be hoping to use their consistent ability to finish in the top ten and extend that to a win.

Champoussin won a memorable stage at the Vuelta two years ago after attacking from the GC group and if he is present during the break on a hilly day, could have a great chance of victory.

Jayco-AlUla

  • Team leader: Simon Yates, Dylan Groenewegen

Altitude training is de rigueur for any serious Tour de France contender, but Simon Yates took it to an extreme this year. When he lines up in Bilbao on July 1, he will have not raced since stage two of the Tour de Romandie in late April, much of it spent high at altitude at his home in Andorra.

The 30-year-old will hope less is more in his challenge for the podium. His busier spring ticked all the boxes, with a stage win and second at the Tour Down Under and fourth in Paris-Nice.

He’ll be sharing some limelight with sprinter Dylan Groenewegen, an early stage winner last year.

With six victories so far, including a brace at the recent Tour of Slovenia, he’ll have the belief that he can add to his Tour tally. Luka Mezgec can help guide the Dutchman and Luke Durbridge will call the shots as road captain.

DSM-Firmenich

  • Team leader: Romain Bardet
  • Rider to watch: Sam Welsford

The Dutch team comes to the Tour with a new team name - Team DSM-Firmenich - and potentially new stars to be made. 

In his second season on the WorldTour, bunch sprinter Sam Welsford has gone up a level, winning two races and regularly featuring on the podium. It would be a whistlestop journey to the top if he can taste glory in France.

DSM-Firmenich have a reputation for bringing through new talent, as well as a challenging leadership style.

Theirs is a young team with a savvy, battle-hardened leader in Romain Bardet. The 32-year-old has been inside the top ten of every stage race he’s completed this season.

Last summer, he finished sixth at the Tour. It might have been more, had he not lost several minutes on a sweltering stage to Foix. 

Extra motivation comes in the shape of stage finishes in his home city of Clermont-Ferrand and on the nearby Puy de Dôme.

  • Team leader: Giulio Ciccone and Mads Pedersen
  • Objective: Stage wins and green jersey
  • Rider to watch: Mattias Skjelmose

Having missed the Giro d'Italia due to a COVID-19 positive, Giulio Ciccone will lead a talented Lidl-Trek side riding under that name for the first time. 

The Italian recently extended his contract with the US-registered team until 2027 and has more than earned the leadership spot with a blistering start to the season.

Ciccone won the final stage of the Criterium du Dauphiné and has consistently performed on GC at each race this season. The 28-year-old is very punchy and could also snap up bonus seconds in the first week.

Mattias Skjelmose should be there as support and after his mature ride that saw him take victory at the Tour de Suisse, the 22-year-old could also challenge for stage wins on some of the hardest days from the break if given the opportunity by his team.

The real push for stages in the Lidl-Trek camp will come from former World Champion, Mads Pedersen. The powerful Dane took his first Tour de France win from the break in 2022, and he may have to adopt similar tactics if he is to claim another.

The sprint field is set to be stacked with as many as eight possible chances for a bunch sprint. Pedersen is no slouch in a sprint, but his top-end speed may not be as high as Jakobsen, Philipsen or Groenewegen. 

  • UAE Team Emirates
  • Team leader: Tadej Pogačar
  • Objective: Yellow jersey

UAE Team Emirates have one clear goal: winning the Tour de France with Pogačar. 

The Slovenian superstar was denied his third yellow jersey in as many years after being well-beaten by Vingegaard in the high mountains and will be looking to bounce back at the 2023 Tour.

Pogačar produced a spring classics campaign for the ages and dominated with an air of invincibility. Paris-Nice, The Tour of Flanders, Fleche Wallonne and Amstel Gold Race. 

His onslaught of wins was halted however, by a crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège where he fractured the scaphoid bone in his hand and was forced to take time off the bike. This may have been timely after such an arduous spring and his training schedule hasn’t been overly disrupted.

It’s difficult to find a parcours that doesn't suit Pogačar’s abilities and he will want to maximise his bonus seconds on the punchier stages, especially in the first week.

Pogačar returned to racing at the Slovenian national time trial championships where he took an emphatic victory, albeit against a weak field, 5:14 ahead of the runner up on a 15.7km route. He then dominated the road race too.

UAE Emirates have named a strong team that includes Adam Yates - a co-leader according to team manager Mauro Gianetti, plus Marc Soler and Rafał Majka to provide the final pull for Pogačar on the toughest climbing days.

The Polish super-domestique has worked well with Adam Yates in 2023, helping the Brit win the Tour de Romandie and finish second at the Critérium du Dauphiné, behind only Vingegaard.

Mikkel Bjerg, Felix Großschartner, Matteo Trentin and Vegard Stake Laengen form the core of the team to protect Pogačar.

Lotto-Dstny

  • Team leader: Caleb Ewan
  • Rider to watch: Maxim Van Gils

The Belgian team were relegated from the UCI WorldTour at the end of 2022 but still received an invitation as one of the two top-ranked ProTeams. 

They haven’t won a stage of the Tour de France since 2020 and will be desperately trying to rectify that in 2023 with their headline sprinter Caleb Ewan.

It’s no surprise to see Ewan backed up by Jasper de Buyst, who will be his last man in the lead-out and veteran lead-out specialist, Jacopo Guarnieri, who they signed from Groupama-FDJ at the end of the season to bolster their train.

Ewan won three stages in 2019 and two in 2020. Since then, he’s been without luck or a consistent lead-out but doesn’t appear to have lost his top-end speed. 

The Australian fast man had a tough 2022 season, crashing in the opening stage of the Giro and on the gruelling cobbled stage at the Tour. He suffered another setback at the Baloise Belgium Tour after crashing and staying down for some time before getting back on his bike.

Outside of Ewan, one of their riders to watch is young star Maxim Van Gils, who has impressed throughout 2023. The 23-year-old finished in the top eleven of all three Ardennes Classics and fifth in stages one and two of the Dauphiné. Look to see him feature in the punchy days or alongside another of Lotto Dstny’s new signings, Pascal Eenkhoorn, in the breakaway.

Victor Campenaerts was also a late selection and will surely go on the attack on multiple stages. 

TotalEnergies

  • Team leader: Peter Sagan
  • Objective: stage wins
  • Rider to watch: Anthony Turgis

This is one of the oldest line-ups in the race. Several squad members have Tour de France success in their past and will be looking to show that they aren’t yesterday’s men: Alexis Vuillermoz, Maciej Bodnar, Edvald Boasson Hagen and, last but certainly not least, Peter Sagan.

It will be the last Tour de France for the retiring, but never shy, Slovakian. He has seven points jerseys and a dozen stage wins to his name. While his best days are behind him, you can never write off Sagan. Several fourth and fifth places in bunch sprints at the 2022 race showed the legs are still there.

TotalEnergies will be active in breakaways, but a stage win would make their year. They need a pick-me-up after a fallow year too, with only one victory in Europe so far.

Uno-X Pro Cycling

  • Team leader: Alexander Kristoff
  • Rider to watch: Torsten Traæn

The Norwegian squad are the fresh-faced debutants in the pack. Gaining a wild card from the race organisers in January was a first victory for them.

They are on a journey of discovery at the sport’s top level and there is no more brutal testing ground than the Tour de France to show where they belong.

Expect these underdogs to light up the race with many attacks while also working to set up veteran sprinter Alexander Kristoff.

Uno-X have several promising youngsters, waiting to make a name for themselves. 

U23 TT world champion Søren Wærenskjold packs a powerful sprint. Then there’s mountain men Tobias Halland Johannessen, who won the 2021 Tour de l’Avenir and Torsten Træen, who was eighth at the Critérium du Dauphiné. They could surprise a fair few observers.

Israel-Premier Tech

  • Team leader: Michael Woods and Dylan Teuns
  • Rider to watch: Corbin Strong

Despite their relegation from the UCI WorldTour at the end of the 2022 season, Israel-Premier Tech were one of the two teams that received an invitation to the Tour de France as a wildcard. It’s their fourth participation at the Tour and they will have high expectations after securing two emotional and inspiring victories in 2022 through Simon Clarke and Hugo Houle.

As a whole, the Israeli team impressed fans at the Giro d’Italia with their mainly young squad riding an attacking race where they targeted the majority of breakaways. Their Tour team features much of their older contingent, but hopefully, the same style of racing will be adopted. Clarke and Houle have both been selected again to get into breaks.

Michael Woods and Dylan Teuns have shown the best climbing form in recent weeks with Woods winning the Route d'Occitanie and Teuns finishing ninth at the Tour de Suisse, despite barely figuring on the radar for much of the race.

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome was expected to start, ten years after he won his first Grand Boucle for Team Sky but he was left out for a squad the team believed was better suited to their goals.

Stage hunting will be the agenda for the whole three weeks with Corbin Strong and Nick Schultz making the eight-man roster. 

Strong is a quick finisher with a great track-racing background and could be very dangerous from a break, while Schultz came agonisingly close to a stage win in Megève at last year’s Tour, so he’ll be hoping for another chance at victory here.

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From the domestiques to the massage therapists, every Tour de France team is made up of a million moving parts, any one of which could derail months of work.

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Le Tour de France 2013 - Stage Nineteen

It takes much more than one supremely talented skinny man to win the Tour de France . That man matters, certainly, but Chris Froome would probably not be a four-time overall yellow jersey winner if he also didn’t have the best, most well-funded team in the sport surrounding him. (Maybe two or three times in that case — give or take a salbutamol inhaler).

It’s easy to lose sight of the importance of teammates in cycling. The Tour goes out of its way to make itself seem like an individual competition, giving the race leader a bright yellow jersey that can be seen from helicopters and propping him up on a podium after each stage to wave flowers and a plush lion at the cameras.

But don’t fooled. Cycling is about much more than pure physical effort. Yellow jersey contenders need teammates to make sure they use their energy as efficiently as possible while climbing some of the biggest mountains in the world. And in perhaps no other sport are the support staff — the team directors, soigneurs, mechanics, and chefs — so critically important to the mission, too.

Every Tour de France team is an intricate machine that could collapse if any part of it fails.

Teams are made up of eight riders who do everything together

Race, eat, recover, and repeat, for 21 stages and nearly 2,100 miles over 23 days. It should be noted that not all riders are the same. There are 22 teams in the Tour de France, each organized under a sponsor. The sponsors tend to be banks, energy companies, and bicycle companies.

Here’s a brief explanation of the most common types of riders you will see on the road.

The yellow jersey contender: The competition for the yellow jersey is based on the leader of the general classification, which ranks all 176 riders by time. The riders on top of the general classification at the end of the Tour tend to be strong climbers and time trialists, because mountain and time trial stages usually create the biggest time gaps. Teams can have multiple yellow jersey contenders — like Movistar this year with Nairo Quintana, Mikel Landa, and Alejandro Valverde — or one clear boss — like Team Sky and four-time Tour winner Chris Froome.

Teams like Sky are rigidly mechanical and deadly. They come into the Tour with a plan and follow it to the letter. Teams like Movistar function much more loosely, seemingly making up the gameplan on the fly.

The domestique: A domestique is essentially a helper rider, someone who sacrifices his chances to climb up the general classification or win a stage so that a teammate can succeed. Domestiques will often gather water bottles from team cars to pass out among teammates, or ride in front of a team leader to cut the wind for him, or even give up his bicycle if the team leader suffers a mechanical problem.

Depending on the type of stage, anyone — including the yellow jersey contender — could act as a domestique. For example, on a flat stage when there isn’t much time to gain, a pure climber might do domestique duties so that sprinters who are capable of winning the stage can focus on riding their fastest. When the terrain gets bumpier, those roles reverse.

The sprinter: Many casual fans understand the importance of the yellow jersey, but nearly as prestigious among riders is the green jersey, which is awarded to the rider who earns the most points from stage wins and intermediate sprints. These riders tend to be the fastest riders in terms of pure speed, because the biggest chunk of Tour de France stages take place on relatively flat land.

Other important types of riders include the puncheur — all-around riders who are best at courses that are not too steep, and not too flat — and the time trial specialist — also a good all-around rider and valuable domestique , but particularly well-suited for riding alone against the clock. The best yellow jersey contenders — Chris Froome, particularly — are often great time trialists.

Again, the important thing to note is that, at certain points during the Tour, any of these riders could act as a domestique . Everyone has to make sacrifices for the good of the team.

The key to any tactic on the road is drafting

Every move is based the fact that it is much easier to ride behind someone than in front of someone. Scientists don’t quite agree on the extent, but the effect of sitting on another rider’s wheel is a 27 percent to 50 percent reduction in wind drag . That’s why when you watch the Tour de France, you’ll often see the best riders sitting third or fourth wheel within a line of seven of their teammates.

The long leadout trains are most easily seen on the flat stages, when teams will work hard to move their sprinters to the front of the peloton — the big bunch of 100-plus riders sticking close together — and keep his legs fresh before he bursts forward to challenge for the stage victory. Teamwork is perhaps most critical in the mountains, however. When Team Sky takes to the Alps, expect to see riders like Geraint Thomas, Egan Bernal, and Wout Poels near Chris Froome at all times, doing as much work as they can for their team leader for as long as their legs will hold out.

Riders like Thomas are often called superdomestiques for being yellow jersey-caliber riders who nonetheless are willing to sacrifice for a team leader.

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Having a teammate or two on difficult climbs is often what makes a great rider a champion. For the last several years, for example, Thomas has acted essentially as Froome’s guard dog. Whenever a rival would try to attack by accelerating from Froome up a steep slope, Thomas would chase and take Froome with him on his wheel, keeping the attacks at bay while insuring that Froome doesn’t have to expend more energy than necessary.

A great team can also go to the front of the peloton and drive the pace relentlessly high, snuffing out any idea of an attack before it begins. Not only is Sky ridiculously talented top to bottom, it is also incredibly well coordinated, sharing the energy load as equitably as possible and driving all of their rivals mad.

But no team can be great without proper support staff

In 2014, I spoke to a member of BMC Racing’s staff , and this is what the team brought to support its nine riders:

Minimum 17 staff: four soigneurs , four mechanics, a general manager, two race directors; a cook, a press officer, a hospitality manager, a technical director, a doctor and a photographer. 10 vehicles: one truck, one bus, one sprinter, one van and six cars. 27 road bikes, 18 time trial bikes and 80 pairs of wheels. 2,000 bottles 400 musettes 1,000 energy bars 1,500 gel packs The kit per each rider, which includes the following: four bibs, four short sleeve jerseys, two long sleeve thermal jerseys, two short sleeve thermal jerseys, three knee/leg/arm warmers, two wind vests, two rain jackets, five pairs of socks, two helmets, two aero helmets, 10 cycling caps, three pairs of gloves

Just like a domestique rider is expected to do everything for the team leader, a soigneur is someone who takes care of all the little things behind the scenes. Technically, soigneurs are massage therapists, but they will also pack the day’s musettes — bags that contain food, water, and energy drinks — that riders will grab as they ride through designated portions of every stage. If a rider misses a feed zone, his body could give out at a critical juncture of the race.

Le Tour de France 2012 - Stage Ten

Then there are the mechanics. They get up early to make sure every rider’s bike is properly tuned, and pack the roofs of their support vehicles so that if an important riders suffers a mechanical problem, his replacement ride will be the most easily accessible. The mechanics can often salvage a bad day. On Stage 9 of this year’s Tour, for example, Frenchman Romain Bardet suffered three punctured tires on the cobblestones, and yet was able to minimize his time lost because AG2R La Mondiale’s mechanics were quick to give him a new wheel when he needed it.

Communication among everyone is critical during each stage

A system of radios makes everything go:

Race radio: A one-way feed run by Tour de France organizers. Team cars are stuck behind cyclists with limited visibility, so they rely on race radio to relay information about which riders have been involved in crashes or are pulling away from the peloton. Race radio gives clearance to team cars to break procession order and speed ahead to aid their riders. Car-to-car radio: A channel open to only the two team cars on the course. Amidst so much chaos, the two race directors must be in constant contact, communicating who will help which riders, and whether to pull over and swap rider-specific equipment based on which rider is in which part of the peloton. Car-to-rider radio: A channel that puts race directors directly in the ears of team riders. This communication line has been open since the mid-90s, though some want to abolish it, claiming that it has eliminated spontaneity during stages in favor of robotic coordination and tactics. Riders like it, however, and teams insist that the radio is used almost entirely for communicating times and potential hazards ahead, and that little collusion takes place.

Each team has two cars. All of the cars follow the peloton according to the team rankings, from best to worst, meaning that currently the top-ranked team, Quick-Step Floors, has the No. 1 and No. 23 cars in the procession, and the worst-ranked team, Cofidis, has the No. 22 and No. 44 cars.

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Positioning is important, because any car near the front will be able to get to a down rider much more quickly. The positioning of the vehicles also incentivizes teams to get into breakaways. If a domestique pulls far enough ahead of the peloton, a team car is given a go-ahead to break procession order and drive up near its rider. Doing so might help the team’s yellow jersey hopeful later if he has a problem or desperately needs a water bottle as the breakaway is roped in and the vehicle is asked to rejoin the procession.

From the chefs dedicated to giving riders the perfect mix of simple carbs, proteins, and probiotics to recover from yet another grueling stage, to the communications director who keeps the atmosphere loose on the team bus for three stress-packed weeks, a Tour de France team is made up of dozens of moving parts, any of which could be the difference between success and failure.

If everything goes right, all that’s left for anyone to do is hope that the top guy doesn’t screw it all up

That’s the point of it all, really: to eliminate all possible complications until all that’s left is hope that your meal ticket — your one amazing rider who you’ve dedicated months of preparation for — can win the whole thing on his own, with, say, an incredible solo effort up to La Pierre-St. Martin , or a strangling performance on the cobblestones of Northern France .

And if that meal ticket bonks, or worse, crashes out of the Tour yet again , then all that effort will, cruelly, have been for naught.

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Tour de france stage 13: kwiatkowski scores mountaintop victory, pogačar gains time on vingegaard, pogačar attacks 500m from the summit to move within nine seconds of vingegaard in first of three stages through the high mountains..

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Michał Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers) attacked out of the breakaway 11km from the summit for a blockbuster mountaintop victory on stage 13 of the Tour de France .

The much-anticipated GC battle only flared late on the hors categorie climb up to the Grand Colombier.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates) launched a stinging acceleration 500m from the line and rode Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) out of his wheel to score four seconds in his chase for the yellow jersey.

Pogačar finished third on the stage behind breakaway survivor Maxim van Gils (Lotto-Dstny) and so also nabbed four bonus seconds at the line.

Vingegaard now leads the classification by only nine seconds to set up a barnstorming weekend of stages in the Alps.

The victory was the second Tour stage of Kwiatkowski’s career, following on from stage 18 in 2020. On that occasion he rolled in just ahead of his-then teammate Richard Carapaz. This time he was 47 seconds ahead of the next rider, Maxim Van Gils (Lotto Dstny).

He said the other riders in the move were fundamental to his success, in terms of everyone knuckling down and sharing the workload. This made it possible for someone from the move to take the win.

“I had 18 friends in the breakaway. I had a nice advantage on the final climb and it was a crazy experience, to be honest. When I entered the breakaway, I thought this is just a free ticket to maybe the bottom of the climb or something like that.

“I never thought this group would fight for the stage win because UAE were pulling pretty hard in the back. But to be honest, it is not easy to chase 19 guys rotating on the flat for more than 100K.”

The former world champion admitted that the win was down to a number of factors, with random elements such as the number and composition of the break and the other squads’ willingness to ride with the chasing team determining whether or not a move can stay clear.

“I think they let too many guys in the front,” he said.

All in all, the experience is a very positive one for him. In 2020 he rode the same climb with teammate Egan Bernal, nursing the then-ailing rider up the climb. Bernal later withdrew from the race. Three years later Kwiatkowski had a chance to go for the stage win, resulting in very different emotions.

“I just found probably the best legs I ever had in my life. I didn’t believe that was possible, but here I am.”

Pogačar is moving closer and closer to yellow and was upbeat at the finish.

“It has been a successful day as we took some seconds back. The Tour is still long and we are in a good situation,” he said.

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“We are going day by day, looking at this kind of opportunities to take back some seconds. Even if we didn’t get the stage win, it was still a victory in the battle for the yellow jersey.”

Big break on Bastille Day

Stage 13 of the Tour de France was a big one, a 137.5km race from Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne to Grand Colombier which ended atop one of the race’s toughest finishes.

The final climb was, at 17.4km, one of the longest this year. It averaged 7.1 percent but had three pitches as steep as 14 percent as well as a double-digit finishing stretch.

Multiple attacks were launched after the drop of the flag, some of those by French riders determined to show themselves on Bastille day. The big break of the day kicked off with just under 120km to go, when Van Gils, Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team), Mike Teunissen (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty) and Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ) went clear.

They were joined by 16 others, namely Kwiatkowski, Alberto Bettiol and James Shaw (both EF Education-Easypost), Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-QuickStep), Matej Mohorič and Fred Wright (Bahrain-Victorious), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), Adrein Petit and Georg Zimmerman (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty), Hugo Houle (Israel Premier Tech), Luca Mozzato (Arkea-Samsic), Pascel Eenkhoorn (Lotto Dstny), Cees Bol and Harold Tejada (Astana Qazakstan), Anthon Charmig (Uno X Pro Cycling) and Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies).

This group had 1:30 with 100km remaining and further boosted the advantage to over two minutes. Teunissen took the intermediate sprint at Hauteville-Lompnès (km 87.3) ahead of Mohorič and the others, while the pressure of the break and the terrain saw some of those out front lost contact and slip back.

Caleb Ewan (Lotto Dstny) was also under pressure and was dropped by the peloton with 55km to go. He had struggled to make the time cut on Thursday and was paying the price for those efforts. The Australian sprinter continued on for some time but would ultimately retire from the race.

Kwiatkowski jumps, Pogačar surges

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The break had 3:08 with 40km remaining, making things difficult for the break to hold off the GC riders on the final climb. Pacher attacked on the lower slopes of the Grand Colombier, while behind Ineos Grenadiers and UAE Team Emirates were both driving the pace heading into the climb. UAE then assumed all control on the slopes, ramping up the pace in advance of a Pogačar attack.

Pacher remained out front and was chased by Van Gils, Tejada and Shaw. They caught the leader and then Van Giles surged, but Kwiatkowski joined up from behind and kicked clear with 12km to go.

The Polish rider rode strongly and had a lead of 0:58 over the next rider with 5km to go. His chances were looking strong at that point, with the UAE-led yellow jersey group at 2:18 at that point.

Pogačar was urging on his team and Rafal Majka drove the pace. Adam Yates attacked with approximately 3.2km remaining, with Sepp Kuss leading Pogačar, Vingegaard and several others back up to him. Yates continued on the front, dancing out of the saddle through crowds of spectators, while Pogačar and Vingegaard were biding their time before the inevitable showdown.

Kwiatkowski raced in for the victory. Yates continued to lead behind, then Pogačar launched a furious attack inside the final kilometer. Vingegaard tracked him, was gapped, and trailed across the line four seconds back. Add in Pogačar’s four-second time bonus for third and the Dane conceded a further eight seconds. This further narrowed the gap between them to just nine seconds, leaving things wide open for the upcoming stages.

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Peter Sagan

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32, 121 wins / Three-time World Champion, seven-time Green Jersey and two-time Monument race winner / 11th Tour de France

Peter is hands-down the superstar of modern cycling. The Slovak sprinter, who has already reached the sport’s highest levels, dreams of flashing a V for victory during the Tour de France and maybe even winning the Green Jersey. He will have several openings during the three-week race to take the lead in the final sprint.

Pierre Latour

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28, five wins /Young jersey winner of the 2018 Tour de France, stage winner of the Vuelta and two-time French ITT Champion / 5th Tour de France

Pierre is the team leader in the mountains for this year’s Tour de France. His motivation will be his greatest strength for taking home a stage victory as he did in the Vuelta. He will be able to count on his teammates for support in this quest.

Anthony Turgis

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28, six wins / 2nd in this season’s Milan-San Remo, 4th in the 2020 Tour des Flandres / 5th Tour de France

Our all-rounder has been a key part of the team for several seasons. Always well-positioned, he will be able to leverage his ability to clock up the kilometers and his bursts of speed to battle for a first stage victory in a Grand Tour.

Alexis Vuillermoz

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34, nine wins / Stage winner in the 2015 Tour de France, stage winner and Yellow Jersey during this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné / 8th Tour de France

Pikachu is back for this year’s Tour de France! In top form since the beginning of the season, he intends to tap into the positive momentum to make a statement as he did in 2015 in Mûr-de-Bretagne.

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35, two wins / Participant in 36 Monument and 14 Grand Tour races, two-time TTT winner in 2014 and 2015 / 10th Tour de France

The entire team will benefit from the experience of a cyclist who has been with Peter Sagan since he began. Always ready to help his teammates, Daniel is a tireless rider ready to give his all to help the leaders win.

Edvald Boasson-Hagen

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35, 81 wins / Three-time stage winner of the Tour de France, four-time stage winner of the Critérium du Dauphiné / 12th Tour de France

Edvald has one of the best records in the pack and has already won three stages during the Tour de France. The Norwegian is a rider the team can count on when the going gets tough and the final rush begins.

Maciej Bodnar

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37, 11 wins / Eight-time Polish ITT champion, ITT winner in the 20th stage of the 2017 Tour de France / 7th Tour de France

Maciej is a force of nature. An ITT and solitary breakaway specialist, he is able to replace his teammates at the front of the pack at any point in the race. He will have an important role to play when the sprinters are in the spotlight.

Mathieu Burgaudeau

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23, one win / Stage winner of this year’s Paris-Nice / 2nd Tour de France

Mathieu is the youngest member of the team and a home-grown talent. An alumnus of CREF Cyclisme des Pays de la Loire and Vendée U, he will take a well-earned place in his second Tour de France. Mathieu already won a stage during this year’s Paris-Nice has every reason to shine during the Tour de France.

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