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There are particular to be extra fireworks as Tour de France continues on Bastille Day and the race reaches the enduring climb of Alpe d’Huez following an exciting battle within the mountains on Wednesday.
On a rare day of techniques and stress, Jonas Vingegaard stormed into the race lead and claimed the yellow jersey as defending champion Tadej Pogacar cracked on the ultimate climb to Col du Granon. It got here after Vingegaard and Group Jumbo-Visma remoted Pogacar and broke him down following a collection of assaults, with final 12 months’s runner-up Vingegaard seizing an enormous lead of over two minutes within the basic classification standings.
The riders are confronted with one other big check on Stage 12, nevertheless, and one other gruelling day of climbs. Earlier than reaching Alpe d’Huez, they must deal with the Col du Galibier for a second time in two days, after which additionally climb the stupendously lengthy Col de la Croix de Fer. The house crowds will likely be cheering for a French winner on Bastille Day, however this race doesn’t require any extra intrigue as Pogacar seems to be to answer VIngegaard’s beautiful assault. Observe all of the motion from Stage 12 of the Tour de France:
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
61 km to go: The breakaway are 7.5km to go till the summit at Col de la Croix de Fer. After that there’s about 40km of descent earlier than the ultimate climb up Alpe d’Huez.
Earlier than that although is the steepest a part of this present mountain.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 15:22
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
64km to go: Chris Froome is proven pouring a bottle of water over his head to chill down. The forecast says that the warmth may attain as much as 36 levels on the street right now which isn’t what the riders want throughout these lengthy, arduous climbs.
Pidcock and Ciccone on the entrance of the breakaway placing the stress on to extend the tempo.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 15:16
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
66km to go: Jumbo-Visma are pushing the peloton ever nearer because the climb up Col de la Croix de Fer eases off barely. They’ve closed the hole by 30 seconds.
12km nonetheless to go till the height.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 15:10
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
71m to go: Geraint Thomas spoke to TV reporters this morning about yesterday’s stage, Jonas Vingegaard taking the yellow jersey and whether or not Tadej Pogacar can reply right now. He mentioned:
“We anticipated a little bit of a loopy day [on Stage 11], and it undoubtedly turned out to be that means. However comfortable to nonetheless be up there and within the combine.
“Yeah I feel he [Pogacar fighting back] will, for certain. I feel he’ll try to react. I can’t see it occurring earlier than Alpe d’Huez, however who is aware of with this race. I feel Jumbo would possibly take a very managed form of tackle the stage, then on the Alpe d’Huez it’ll be loopy once more. That’s what I’d predict, however you by no means know, you’ve bought to anticipate the worst and hope for one of the best. “Clearly, there’s plenty of sturdy guys nonetheless within the race, it’s not simply them two. They’ve been the strongest to this point, however as we noticed with Pogacar yesterday, you by no means know what may occur with Vingegaard in a while. However in the meanwhile him and the crew appear tremendous sturdy.”
Michael Jones14 July 2022 15:02
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
73km to go: Up within the breakaway Tom Pidcock has gotten himself into the digital top-10 of the GC standings and may proceed to push up with a niche of over seven minutes nonetheless in tact.
There’s nonetheless 19km of Col de la Croix de Fer to climb.
Maybe extra importantly to Pidcock he’s difficult Tadej Pogacar for the white jersey which is given to the quickest younger rider on the Tour.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 14:56
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
76km to go: A niche of over seven minutes is difficult to reign in however the peloton has the benefit of creating up the time on the climbs.
Many of the GC contenders will likely be excited about making their strikes, Jonas Vingegaard will need to time it good in order to not concede a lot time to his rivals.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 14:44
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
78m to go: Jumbo-Visma with the assistance of yellow jersey holder Jonas Vingegaard are main the way in which on the entrance of the peloton however the hole between them and the breakaway is as much as seven minutes.
Peter Sagan has dropped to the again after an earlier assault didn’t repay.
24km of Col de la Croix de Fer remaining. The tempo has dropped considerably because the riders begin to really feel the issue of the 5.2% common gradient.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 14:40
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
81km to go: There’s a distance of two.5km between these on the head of the race and the chasing peloton which incorporates the primary GC contenders together with the yellow jersey holder Jonas Vingegaard.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 14:31
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
83km to go: With a big portion of downhill using 46.2km have been coated within the second hour of racing. The common velocity of the day to this point is 38km/h.
The peloton has reached the bottom of Col de la Croix de Fer. 29km of ascending using to go till the summit.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 14:28
Tour de France 2022: Stage 12
87km to go: Politt and Barguil are reeled again in by the peloton which is now over 5 minutes behind the 9 riders within the breakaway.
On the minute they’re about 600 metres above sea stage with a bit extra downhill using to return earlier than the following HC climb.
The height of Col de la Croix de Fer is 2,067m so there’s an enormous incline to return.
Michael Jones14 July 2022 14:23
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