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68km to go; The Breakaway, Marcus Haller drops to his smart car again to pick up another two Bidons. He’s also handed a bag of ice, which is the coats in the back of his shirt. There is a Scorchio out there with the air temperature 29C that almost certainly hotter on the road.
69km to go; 1min 31sec gap. For anyone just joining us in the business end stage, your five-man Breakaway is comprehended from Geram (inoeos grenadiers), Alex BaAUDIN (EF (EF-EASYPOP), Marcus Cortina B & B). A Walenshmann, a Breton, the Gauls, an Austrian and Spain cycle in a bar …
At the same time to rule: “The rule for non-falling conditions is that all the horsemen who have a wheel overlap with another rider as soon as” writes Gareth Owen. If you b, and 100 overlaps B and 500 overlaps c etc., and e overlaps d …. all the way up to z shaken y … then z will be in the field at the time. “
74km to go; UAE Emirates-XRG rider Adam Yates stops with puncture, gets new front wheel and quickly away again. In addition, the trip, Alexus Renard is standing on the side of the road and appears to be waiting for the macro bike. And he started to lean against the lamp behind.
78km to go; My lunchtime musette comes and contents are not particularly healthy. It contains a bidon of sugar-free 7up, a ham, cheese and tomato sandwich, bag of pickled onion monster munch and a handful of jelly babies.
86km to go; “Yesterday was a gap between ttttej and Jonah at the finish line is given to the same time,” Mark. “How big does the gap need to be different times?”
I think that’s a flat stage and three-kilometer rule in the place, the riders who complete the one second (or in some cases, three seconds. If it was somewhere in the group riders of the leading cyclist finished within one or three seconds of pogacar, which is not risen at the same time. I have risen at the same time. I do not have risen at the same time. I have risen at the same time. I think. I think. I think. I think. I think.
89km to go; “I know you love to pedant, so with the comment in -128 km, you’ll be pleased to know that it’s the town that is called ‘Müv-de-Bretagne’, not climb,” writes Pedantry Simon Thomas. “It is just a happy co-incidence that müv can mean, wall. Could you also be g to know.”
You are true, Simon, I will do that pedant and “happens” is the word that does not require hyphen.
93km to: Breakaway transit la plage du goodbye andre, beautiful beach nestling near the blue sea. Gap is 90 seconds and Breakaway seems getting fed with emissions to strap in which they were killed by Peloton. There are no riding particularly difficult but as quickly and slowness, namely to be chasing can be used in a long line. I don’t want to be on the back of that.
95 km to: “I’m not sure why who wants to be in the breakaway, other than the Celtic pride,” wrote Peter Craig. “UAE clearly you want to be on the stage and controlling things for pogacar, as EF sports director knows the full option.”
A few minutes ago, the interview with Jens Voigt, who is from the course on the back of Mororbike to TNT Sports, sports arrange in the question told German and thinks the breakaway has a chance today.
97km to go; The gap remains stable, the 1min 43sec and in front of Marcus Haller (Tudor) drops to back from five-man groups and a team car in a long and lazy or otherwise.
106km to go; The gap is up to 1min 45SEC and Peloton is the bowl of one UAE Emirates-XRG rider (MARC usually, probably) followed by Massed orders alpecin-decuninck team. The Yellow Jersey, Mathieu van der Pelel in the sixth wheel. Ttttej pogacar is about 15 areas of front bunch.
114km to: A memory of your five-person Breakaway Thomas (Inoeos Grenadiers), Alex Baudin (EF Education-Easypost), Marcus Haller (Tudor), Ewen Costiou (Arkéa-B & B Hotels), John Garcia Cortina (Movistar). They currently have a pencil of 1min 34sec and kept in the very tight plump of Peloton. It’s currently a stand-off between breakaway group and a bunch.
On the race radio, EF education-easypost plays director is just the baudin that’s got to try to calm now on this move because it’s not on how much you guys do what’s not a post. “
The TNT Sports, Assorted Pundits are saying Breakaway Group to slow down a little bit to create panic in a bunch and get to slowly too. “It is the contrary-intuitive but maybe slowing down gives you a more chance of creating chaos in a bunch and then we’re so scared to have a bigger gap and stay,” he said, who or another name does not get. Of course, the danger is that if the breakaway retardes and peloton not, five riders in front will get caught and lose chance of winning the stage.
116km go; The gap is 1min 17sec and while we are in a subject of dinner assi feed zones, there’s a bit of a knack to hand over and picking the bottles and musettes. Is always informative Global Cycling Network Explain …
122km to go; While the riders in Britain, as it would be impossible to the festival in the place of delights to cider, butter, Madame Loik cheese, oysters, custard cake and crepes. This is a more mundane diet can’t wait to find the musettes.
123km to go; Peloton rolls in a feed zone, where the various team soignneurs are standing at the side of the road, danging musettes full of worm to arm’s length to riders to grab.
128km go; Today, the stage finishes with a double-up of the Mur de Britagne (Wall British) and this writer that they had to say about it in the conversation with TNT in the play. “It’s just like … Well, we all know it’s only two kilometres but it’s steep, dead atmosphere, there’s always a good atmosphere, there’s always a good atmosphere on there. It’s always rammed with people and … Yeah, it’s just easy to underestimate because it’s a tough two kilometres but it’s a tough little kilometres but it’s a tough little climb. It Keeps going as well, which is probably the hard bit bit. You have that steep bit which keeps dragging all the way to the line. These days, with the blade guys, it’s going to be a tough one. “
132km go; Riding in the last price, Gering Thomas is the best set rider in the breakaway, but it is over 14 minutes down in Maillot Jaune and no risk. Peloton seem to have a UYP course again and a gap to 1min 24Sec and rising.
135km to go; “I hope today’s stage is to be exciting as yesterday’s and maybe for another good effort from Quinn Simmons,” writes dynamic Damien. “The stars & bars jersey looks fantastic on the way (though handlebar mustachtach is much less, so on-stage interviews) off for an early kickabout with friends at tuning in the updates with friends before the updates.”
135km to go; The gap is closing but remains in 57 seconds.
137km to go; The gap is the 1min 12Sec but decathll ag2r la mondialis rider Bruno armira is ordered to the front of a bunch to the step in peace.
139km to go; It is to Pavel Sivakov’s birthday, but it is not an apologized for the duties of the day that is in it. The UAE team emirates XRG rider drops of Peloton to stock up something of the Bergons for teammates a smart car.
Your Breakaway: Great (Inoos Greaters) Alex Baudin (EF Education-Easypost), Marcus Haller (Tudore), Ewen Costaiou (Arkéa-B & B Hotels) and Galaria Galarius 48 seconds in a bunch. Brits (Thomas) and bretons (costonte) are both represented.
We have our Breakaway day!
141km to go; Is interesting. Heading Thomas, Neilson Vills and three other riders escaped peloton, which seems to be at the course and settled.
142km to go; Marc Soler (Team Emirates XRG) is the front of a bunch, which permanent intact after 50 kilometers of yeast racing.
148km to: Only for having a happy birthday. In the back of a packet, Lenny Martinez raises his hand in front of the TV motorbike to those in team car and to know it needs to pay attention. There’s wrong with derailleur, and it’s stuck in a low gear and legs are spinning faster than running.
149km to go; About 50 kilometers we still have a breakaway and average speed peloton remains as shy about 55km per hour. “We’ll be on the back of her line as praying for the last split such thing free time off,” Robbie McEwan in TNT Sports. “I imagine somewhere on the third of the way down Peloton I’ll be a boy Slovenian [who’ll be rubbing his hands together metaphorically and saying “They are playing right into my hands’ His name’s Tadej, for those who are wondering.”
154km to go: Edward Theuns (Lidl Trek) risks incurring the race jury’s wrath as he blatantly drafts behind a team car while making his way back to the bunch after an unscheduled stop for a mechanical issue, crash or comfort break. He doesn’t look like he’s suffered a crash and his on the bike he started the stage on – it could have been something as simple as a puncture.
160km to go: There are a couple of birthday boys in today’s peloton, although they’ll do well to light 50 candles across two cakes at the speed they’re going. Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) has 22 to blow out, while Pavel Sivakov (UAE Emirates-XRG) will be extinguishing 28. Happy birthday to both, although I’d say they’re both suffering at the moment.
165km to go: Powless’s attack comes to nothing and with the peloton going at an average speed of 54 kilometres per hour it’s no great surprise.
173km to go: With the bunch back together and the kilometres flying by, Neilson Powless tries to escape off the front in the pink colours of EF Education-EasyPost, who won yesterday’s stage courtesy of Ben Healy. The Native American is riding in his fifth Tour and his best finish came in 2022, when he finished 12th.
175km to go: If you were unaware of the Tour’s new wheeze of disciplining guilty (or entirely innocent in the case of Coquard) riders with retrospective yellow cards for “every touch of shoulders, switch of wheels, dramatic acceleration and multilingual insult”, Jeremy Whittle has an explainer …
178km to go: Tim Wellens (Emirates-XRG) is at the front of a peloton chasing down Schmid and Wout van Aert. The gap has been closed after 17 kilometres of effort from the duo. It’s all back together …
187 km to go: Coquard was involved in the crash that resulted in Jasper Philipsen having to abandon the race and received a yellow card from race jury who seem to fall over themselves each year in their efforts to find new and annoying ways to mire their this great event in petty disciplinary bureaucracy.
While most people on the Tour seemed to put the accident down as just one of those things that happen in bike-racing that nobody was to blame for, Coquard was disciplined and is now one more yellow card from being thrown off the race. It would be fair to say the sprinter is not happy.
“Obviously, it wasn’t my intention to cause a crash; I didn’t want to take any risks,” said Coquard, before learning he would be disciplined. for irregular sprinting “I was clearly thrown off balance; I almost lost my shoe. Even if it wasn’t intentional, I want to apologise to Philipsen and Alpecin-Deceuninck. Even if I’m not a bad guy, it’s not pleasant.”
The following day, having described his own injuries as feeling like he’d been “hit by a car”, Coquard said: “In this situation, there was never any intentional or aggressive action on my part. It was the start of Jonathan Milan’s sprint that made me move a bit. I was level with his derailleur, the Intermarché-Wanty rider came in as well, our handlebars touched, I got off balance, and the rest is history.”
190km to go: Bryan Coquard (Cofidis) drops out of the peloton to ride alongside the medical car and takes a bandag from the doctor. Rolling along at 60 kilometres with just one hand on his bars, he pulls down the sock on his left ankle and begins dressing a wound.
192km to go: Ineos Grenadiers and the Emirates-XRG team of Tadej Pogacar have shut down the attack but Van Aert and Schmid still have a lead of about five seconds on the bunch. Can they snap the elastic?
They’re racing in stage seven!
194km to go: Protruding from the sun-roof of his official race Skoda, race director Christian Prudhomme waves his yellow flag and the cyclists take off. Almost immediately, about 25 riders put the hammer down and try to escape. Wout van Aert (Visma–Lease a Bike) and Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla0) are among them, leading the charge.
Oscar Onley: The Scottish Picnic PostalNL rider is 11th on General Classification but his team boss said on Wednesday that he’s more interested in the 22-year-old from Kelso trying to nick a stage win or two than finishing high up the GC. Onley is a good climber and today’s is a stage he’ll have marked down as a potential win.
Christian Prudhomme on today’s stage: “The peloton’s stay in Brittany will kick off with another contest between the puncheurs,” said the race director. “After leaving Saint-Malo and heading for Saint-Brieuc, history buffs will recall the exploits of Bernard Hinault as the race passes through his home village of Yffiniac.
“But everyone’s attention will be focused very much on the present as the double ascent of the Côte de Mûr-de-Bretagne approaches. A warning to attackers who are a bit too eager – it’s a climb where tactical sense is almost as decisive as physical strength.”
Today’s roll-out is under way: For the eighth time in Tour history, a stage begins in the picturesque Breton town of Saint-Malo. The riders are due to be given the signal to start racing in about five minutes.
KOM classification: top five after stage six
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Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates) 7pts
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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) 5pts
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Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) 4pts
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Eddie Dunbar (Jayco-Alula) 3pts
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Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling) 3pts
Points classification: top five after stage six
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Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) 112
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Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck),108
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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) 106
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Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) 102
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Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) 72
General Classification: top 10 after stage six
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Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 21hrs 52mins 34secs
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Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) +1sec
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Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step) +43secs
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Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +1min
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Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 14secs
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Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 23secs
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João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) +1min 59secs
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Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) +2mins 1sec
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Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +2min 32secs
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Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +2min 36secs
Healy wins stage six as Van der Poel reclaims yellow
Stage six report: Ireland’s Ben Healy struck out alone to win his first ever stage of the Tour de France, with Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel wrestling back the leader’s yellow jersey from reigning champion Tadej Pogacar. Jeremy Whittle reports from Vire …
Stage seven: Saint-Malo to Mûr-de-Bretagne (194km)
William Fotheringham’s stage seven guide: Day one in Brittany is more straightforward, passing Bernard Hinault’s village of Yffiniac – 40 years since the Badger became the last French Tour winner – before two ascents of Mûr de Bretagne to conclude. The finish up the “Wall” is harder than anything the race has tackled to date, and you’d expect Pogacar to make a statement of intent, but it will also suit Van der Poel, winner here in 2021.