Key events
59km to go: The 17 riders in the breakaway have 4mins 26secs on the peloton. EF Education-EasyPost are leading the way at the front – they have three riders in this group.
Over in the peloton, UAE Team Emirates-XRG are driving the bunch.
62km to go: In case you were wondering what the time cut off might be today, the Tour race centre has this explainer:
This stage has a coefficient of four. Finish time limits will be calculated based on the winner’s time, plus:
9% if the average is less than or equal to 31 km/h
10% above 31km/h up to 32km/h
11% above 32km/h up to 33km/h
12% above 33km/h up to 34km/h
13% above 34km/h up to 35km/h
14% above 35km/h up to 36km/h
15% above 36km/h up to 37km/h
16% above 37km/h up to 38km/h
17% above 38km/h up to 39km/h
18% Above 39km/h up to 40km/h
19% above 40km/h
For example, if the stage is won at an average speed of:
37km/h, the time limits will be 40 minutes and 13 seconds
39km/h, the time limits will be 43 minutes and 14 seconds
41km/h, the time limits will be 45 minutes and 58 seconds
67km to go: Raúl García Pierna is back in the breakaway. The green jersey group are 14mins and 38secs behind the break.
73km to go: Mauro Schmid, Luke Plapp and Raúl García Pierna have been dropped by the breakaway, which now consists of 16 riders.
Just as a reminder, the break consists of: Victor Campenaerts, Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike), Valentin Paret-Peintre (Soudal-Quick Step), Ben Healy, Alex Baudin, Harry Sweeny (EF Education-EasyPost), Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek), Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ), Michael Storer (Tudor Pro Cycling), Ben O’Connor (Jayco-AlUla), Pablo Castrillo (Movistar), Michael Woods, Joe Blackmore (Israel-Premier Tech) and Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility). They have 3mins 40secs on the peloton.
Alistair has emailed from Lyon to say how much he’s enjoying stage 10:
I’m finding today’s stage very compelling – not only for the drama of the race, but because I have cycled most of these roads myself. One time, I was on a gravel track in the woods with my brother, he was visiting from New Zealand, and he said: “Is there a race track around here?”
I didn’t know it, but we emerged at Charade, where he had covered motorcycle races as a photographer in the 1970s. Yes we’re a bit senior.
That’s a cool story. Thank you for sharing! And kudos to you for having cycled parts of this route. It looks tough.
79km to go: Bruno Armirail, Julian Alaphilippe and Neilson Powless are chasing the breakaway and are about 50secs behind. In the peloton, Matis Louvel (Israel-Premier Tech) locked up coming round a corner but luckily he was near the back and managed to stay upright.
Apparently, Ben Healy is now the virtual yellow jersey leader.
81km to go: Two of the three EF Education-EasyPost riders in the breakaway have done a turn on the front and Tudor Pro Cycling’s Michael Storer is now doing his part.
Another interesting fact from the Tour race centre: The grandfather of Lenny Martinez, Mariano Martinez, won in Morzine on Bastille Day 45 years ago.
85km to go: The first chase group has joined the leaders and there are now 18 riders in the breakaway. Back in the peloton, Tim Wellens and Nils Politt set the pace, while Visma-Lease a Bike radioed its riders to warn that UAE Team Emirates XRG are speeding up.
Lenny Martinez has grabbed more KOM points.
KOM results at Côte de Berzet
1. L. Martinez, 5 pts
2. Woods, 3 pts
3. A. Johannessen, 2 pts
4. Sweeny, 1 pt
Euan is a “tad dissapointed” in the team kits this year. He emailed in to say:
Got to say I’m a tad disappointed in the team kits this year, with Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s kit being the only team to have done anything different/interesting. In recent years EF’s TdF kit has been something of an occasion, but this year they seem to have just decided to stick with ‘bright pink and wiggly bits’.
The less said about Ineos’ efforts (or lack thereof) the better.
Personally, I was a bit confused by UAE Team Emirates XRG jersey which has a pattern on it which I think makes it looks as if it’s been ripped and/or covered in chain oil. Just me?
88km to go: The group of 10 mentioned in my previous post are ascending the Côte de Bert (3.4km at 7.4%). There’s a fan at the side of the road dressed in a shark costume and a shirtless man stood on something high, roaring and waving a French flag.
David has emailed in and neatly categorised his feelings on this year’s Tour:
Positives: I genuinely love stages like this. There’s multiple groups on the road, which makes it so exciting. Will the break stay away or fragment due to internal disputes, will the bunch catch them, and the final most important one is how close will the grupetto [be] to the time cut off?
Neutral: I think overall, after the early time trial, Pogačar has this. Everyone else has too much ground to make up now, and will work to consolidate second. Drop the individual time trials and this could have been a more electric competition.
Negative: France needs a rider to build a team around and a team with a budget.
91km to go: Ben O’Connor was caught after his attack earlier and was joined by Victor Campenaerts, Ben Healy, Lenny Martinez, Thymen Arensman, Quinn Simmons and Michael Woods. They’ve now got more company: Simon Yates, Valentin Paret-Peintre and Alex Baudin.
96km to go: The riders are now on the Charade race track. Very cool to see. Apparently it’s hosted four F1 grands prix.
Lenny Martinez is grabbing the KOM points today. Heading into the Côte de Charade, he’d already taken 15KOM points so far on this stage.
KOM results at Côte de Charade
1. L. Martinez, 5 pts
2. Woods, 3 pts
3. Arensman, 2 pts
4. Simmons, 1 pt
99km to go: There’s less than 100km left to go and the third climb of the day will be shortly upon the riders. It’s another category two. The Côte de Charade is 5.1km with an average gradient of 6.8%. After failing to spot Michael Woods in the breakaway, Carlton Kirby describes the Israel-Premier Tech jersey as looking like “an explosion in a smoothie factory”.
How do we rate the jerseys? Any favourites?
101km to go: Jayco-Alula’s Ben O’Connor has attacked again. He’s gone off up the road and now has about 20secs on the group behind, AKA the poursuivants. The peloton are 2mins behind them.
The crowds have come out for Bastille Day and the Tour de France riders:
109km to go: French rider Lenny Martinez is first at the summit of the Côte de la Baraque and takes five KOM points, putting him in the virtual lead for the polka dot jersey.
About 1min 40secs behind, Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) sets the pace for the peloton up the climb, while team mate Pavel Sivakov is dropped.
KOM results at Côte de la Baraque
1. L. Martinez, 5 pts
2. A. Johannessen, 3 pts
3. Woods, 2 pts
4. Armirail, 1 pt
112km to go: Brian brings up something I’d been thinking about. EF Education-EasyPost have a strong showing in the beakaway. Brian asks:
EF with four in breakaway, another Ben Healy special on the cards?
The four are Ben Healy, Neilson Powless, Alex Baudin and Harry Sweeney. Out of those four, Healy and Powless would be the ones you’d expect to be targeting the win as they’re both good climbers and breakaway riders.
114km to go: It’s about 4km until the next climb: the category two Côte de La Baraque. It’s 4.8km with an average gradient of 7.4%. There’s KOM points to be taken at the summit. The 29-strong breakaway still have 2mins on the chasing bunch.
118km to go: Anders Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility) is the first over the line at the intermediate sprint. The peloton have just followed about 2mins behind.
Results of the intermediate sprint
1. A. Johannessen, 20 pts
2. Armirail, 17 pts
3. Sweeny, 15 pts
4. Romeo, 13 pts
5. Woods, 11 pts
6. Schmid, 10 pts
7. Blackmore, 9 pts
8. Simmons, 8 pts
9. Arensman, 7 pts
10. Baudin, 6 pts
11. Lutsenko, 5 pts
12. L. Martinez, 4 pts
13. Plapp, 3 pts
14. A. Paret-Peintre, 2 pts
15. Pacher, 1 pt
127km to go: There’s been an attack in the breakaway by 10 riders, including Mauro Schmid and Lenny Martinez. Movistar’s Iván Romeo drives the chase.
Ben O’Connor and Harry Sweeney decide to also have a go and attack from the breakaway.
Bill has shared a story about the storming of the Bastille and the “curse of the long lunch”. On today’s predictions, he adds:
On the subject of long lunches and how they swing tales of the past, I’m hoping we get a winner from the break as the parcours looks horrendous enough and effort should be rewarded. The peloton could decided to not get a stomp on until the end as it looks warm. I believe it was Hinault who said at the start of a hilly stage “we can rest over the first five and go at it on the sixth, or we’ll have to do all six” (they did six and he was very angry, probably won. I digress).
The big three look unstoppable at the moment and it is so good to watch.
Have a great day!
132km to go: Castrillo (Movistar) makes it over to the breakaway group. They still have 1min on the peloton. The green jersey group are still a little way back from the bunch. As to be expected on a mountain stage like today.
135km to go: Pablo Castrillo (Movistar) is 30secs behind the breakaway, which is now at 28 riders. Behind, Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) and Einer Rubio (Movistar) also try to get away from the peloton but UAE Team Emirates XRG are not having it.
137km to go: As mentioned previously, there are 29 riders in the breakaway. Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates XRG) is controlling the peloton. Ben Healy, Ben O’Connor, Neilson Powless, Simon Yates, Alex Baudin, Victor Campenaerts, Quinn Simmons, Lenny Martinez and Julian Alaphilippe are among the breakaway. They have almost 1min on the peloton.
David has emailed over his pedictions for today’s stage:
Pog for the win and sucking more time out of Vingegaard and Evenepoel. And an unnamed Frenchman will finish second.
Cheers, now to go and eat cake.
Delicious. Enjoy the cake.
Søren Wærenskjold withdraws from the Tour de France 2025
Uno-X Mobility’s Søren Wærenskjold has withdrawn from the Tour de France 2025. You might remember that he went down hard in a crash during yesterday’s stage.
145km to go: The attacks keep coming, but the lead group of 29 riders have 26secs on the peloton of 63 riders. Bahrain Victorious’ Santiago Buitrago is dropped and is about 1min 30secs behind. Mathieu Van der Poel is in a group just behind him and then behind them is the green jersey group – about 45secs back. If that didn’t make it clear, it’s all over the place.
Bob has sent in the first suggestion for ‘name that breakaway’:
“Allez Philippe!” Is the cry that goes up whenever a rider called Julian goes to the front of the peloton at the start of a stage like this.
150km to go: Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) was the first to reach the summit of the first climb. Here are the results:
KOM results at Côte de Loubeyrat:
1. L. Martinez, 5 pts
2. Armirail, 3 pts
3. Woods, 2 pts
4. Powless, 1 pt
153km to go: Julian Alaphilippe has been caught and the front group has swelled to 19, with riders in the group including Victor Campenaerts, Ben O’Connor and Ben Healy.
Geraint Thomas and Pavel Sivakov are dropped from the peloton, as well as many sprinters.
155km to go: Tudor Pro Cycling’s directeur sportif has been on the radio to Julian Alaphilippe, or “LouLou” as he affectionally calls him, to say “be careful. You’re out there alone”. With 2.4km of the climb to go, he has about 10secs on the peloton.
A group including the green jersey leader, Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), are 1min 28secs behind the bunch.
157km to go: Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) has 13secs on the bunch as he heads towards the first categorised climb: the category two Côte de Loubeyrat (4.1km at 6.3%). It starts with a very narrow section, that looked almost like an alleyway. So many fans have come out to cheer on the riders.
159km to go: Unsuprisingly, Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) has attacked. As Rob Hatch puts it: “You could have put your mortgage on Julian Alaphilippe attacking today.”
160km to go: Krist Neilands and Valentin Madouas have been joined by a few riders from the bunch but are essentially caught now. Bahrain Victorious’ Fred Wright has a go and attacks but can’t get away. The peloton is back together.
164km to go: Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease a Bike) immediately accelerated once the flag was dropped. Matej Mohoric and Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) joined him up front. Israel-Premier Tech’s Krist Neilands attacks and grabs a 10second gap on the peloton. Groupama-FDJ’s Valentin Madouas bridges to join him.
The racing has begun!
165km to go: And we’re off! Visma-Lease a bike lead out the peloton.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on today’s stage, so please email them over via the link at the top of the page. Who is your prediction for today’s stage win? Are there any riders you think have been quiet so far but today could be their day? Are you out along the route? If so, what’s the atmosphere?
Here’s an interesting stat from the Tour de France race centre: Stage nine of the 2025 Tour de France was the second-fastest in history, at 50.013 km/h.
Matt Stephens on TNT Sports spoke to Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) before today’s stage. He asked if he and his team would be the aggressors today, to which Pogačar replied:
Like I said we will see. We can decide after a few climbs. We can see if we’re riding strong or not … I think we are ready today.
TNT Sports also spoke to Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and was asked what he and his team were cooking up today. He replied:
I think the whole Tour are talking about today. It’s the national day of France, I think everyone wants to be in the break today.
He said he knows today’s climbs well and did a recconaisance of them a few months ago. He added that it would be “a very hard day”. Indeed, the commentators on TV seem united in saying it’s going to the be the hardest test of the Tour so far this year.
Today’s rollout has begun
Stage 10 of the Tour de France 2025 is under way. The peloton have rolled out from a Ennezat. There’s an 8.3km neutralised section before the racing begins.
Georg Zimmermann and Marijn van den Berg withdraw from Tour de France 2025
Intermarché-Wanty announced this morning that German rider Georg Zimmermann would be withdrawing from the race after crashing yesterday. The team said:
Following his crash in Tour de France stage nine, Georg Zimmermann developed signs of a concussion during the night and must quit the race.
EF Education-Easypost’s Dutch cyclist Marijn van den Berg will not start today either. His team said on social media this morning:
Medical update: Marijn van den Berg will not start stage 10 of the Tour de France due to persistent injuries from his crash on stage one. Marijn will head home to rest and recover. Join us in wishing him a speedy recovery
That means there are now 11 teams starting with seven riders.
And who is in which jersey:
Yellow jersey GC leader – Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG)
Green jersey sprint classification – Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek)
Polka dot jersey climber classification – Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates XRG)
White jersey, leading young rider on GC – Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step)
As a reminder, here’s how the general classification for the yellow jersey looks:
General classification: top 10 after stage nine
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) 33hrs 17mins 22secs
Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick-Step) +54secs
Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) +1min 11secs
Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 17secs
Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 34secs
Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) +1min 46secs
Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) +2mins 49secs
Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +3mins 2secs
Primož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +3mins 6secs
Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) +3mins 43secs
There’s also an official stage 10 briefing by Continental and French former professional cyclist, Thierry Gouvenou. He said:
Stage ten of the Tour de France [is] Ennezat to le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, 165km, with a total of 4,450m of elevation gain. All day long, the riders will face a relentless series of climbs and mountain passes. Including, for example, Croix Saint-Morrand and the Croix de Saint-Robert.
We’ve made the most of the climbs available in the Puy de Dôme region, and the route even skirts around the Puy de Dôme itself. Only those in peak condition will hope to shine on a course like this.
The finish is at the summit of the Puy de Sancy, a final climb of more than 3km at an 8% average gradient, very straight, very wide – it’s easy to lose your bearings on a climb like this, and we might see quite a few riders crack. The general classification contenders will be aiming for both the stage win and to gain time overall.
This is what general director of the Tour de France, Christian Prudhomme, has to say about stage ten:
A mountain stage on Bastille Day, and one that’s likely to create some fireworks as there are seven second-category hills or passes on the menu. Anyone who missed the 2023 Tour will be able to catch a glimpse of the climb to the Puy-de-Dôme, as the riders will tackle the first few kilometres of it early in the stage. After that, there’ll be no respite until the final climb to the resort of Le Mont-Dore. The 3.5km climb averaging 8% will bring the total vertical gain for the day to 4,400 metres!
Here is the route profile of stage 10:
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Stage 10: Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, 165km
Here’s a look at today’s stage, Monday 14 July: Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, 165.3km, with William Fotheringham’s preview:
Just the eight categorised climbs today in the Massif Central; mainly second category but totalling 4,450m of vertical ascent. This is the first major showdown among the favourites, and at least a couple could see their hopes of winning end here. With climbing from the get-go it will be full on from the start; for the win look to a puncheur like Ireland’s Ben Healy. It’s Bastille Day so the French will bust a gut and leave empty-handed.
Preamble
It’s Bastille Day! France’s national day and an opportunity for the Tour de France riders to put on a show for the crowds of fans expected to line today’s route. The peloton have 165.3km to cover in this mountain stage from Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy – the last before a rest day tomorrow – and will face seven category two climbs and one category three climb. In total, the riders have 4,450m of elevation on the cards. There’s also and intermediate sprint at 44km in.
It’s going to be a hard day at the end of a long first week for the peloton. It’s expected that the route and profile of today’s stage will bring the GC contenders to the fore and be a test to see who’s serious about the maillot jaune and who’s falling short. So, keep an eye on Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) – the current yellow jersey leader – and his main rival Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), who took a suprise stage win the last time the Tour came to the Massif Central. But Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) is second placed in the GC at the moment, so is also one to watch. And don’t foget the French rider in the peloton, such as Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) and Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ), who would love to be in the action on Bastille Day.
Before the action starts at 1.10pm CEST (12.10am BST), here’s a recap of yesterday’s stage:
