Tour de France Stage Report: On the primary day within the Pyrenees, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Group Emirates) strengthened his maintain on the yellow jersey by attacking on the ultimate climb of the Pla d’Adet to take time on all his adversaries. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike) completed second at 39 seconds, however he handed Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Fast-Step) on the general.
Stage 14 finale
Tadej Pogačar gained the primary Pyrenean stage of the 2024 Tour de France. The Slovenian, who missed out on the stage win three days in the past, rode away from his main opponents Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel on Pla d’Adet.
A job nicely executed by Tadej Pogačar and his crew
Christian Prudhomme, Tour de France common director: “The dynamic format of the primary Pyrenean stage is accentuated by the truth that battle is unlikely to start till the riders have gone by means of Lourdes. From that time, with 80 kilometres remaining, there’ll be a competition of climbing, that includes the Col du Tourmalet, the Hourquette d’Ancizan and the climb to Pla d’Adet. Fifty years on, the end line shall be precisely the place it was when Raymond Poulidor celebrated victory within the 1974 Tour.”
Stage 14 profile
On day fourteen the peloton shall be again within the excessive mountains. The Pyrenees will rule the stage from Pau to Saint-Lary-Soulan: The Pla d’Adet will see the motion within the closing a part of the stage. The Tourmalet and the Hourquette d’Ancizan will deal the body-blows. The fourteenth stage begins with 70 flat kilometres, however from then on it will likely be torture for the non-climbers. The monstrous Col du Tourmalet (19km at 7.4%) is adopted by the Hourquette d’Ancizan (8.2km at 5.1%), summited with 30 kilometres to go. There is no such thing as a relaxation after the descent because the final 10.6 kilometres climb at practically 8%. The Pla d’Adet (10.6km at 7.9%) has steep ramps of over 10% within the first 7 kilometres. The highway flattens for a kilometre, however the closing a part of the climb is at practically 9%. The GC battle needs to be full on.
A cloudy begin for stage 14 in Pau
It didn’t take lengthy for the assaults to begin
Due to the flat begin there have been plenty of riders attempting to get within the break of the day. Victor Campenaerts attacked from the beginning and had Mathieu van der Poel on his wheel. The remainder of the peloton responded instantly and the Belgian and Dutchman have been unable to open a niche. It took some time earlier than a number one group emerged. A bunch with Campenaerts once more, Frank van den Broek and David Gaudu took a lead, however this escape try was additionally canceled.
It was an enormous break of the day – How lengthy wouldn’t it final?
World champion, Van der Poel, Beullens, Vauquelin, Cort and De Lie
A number of extra assaults adopted, nevertheless it was solely when Mathieu van der Poel made one other transfer that there was success. The World champion rode away with Arnaud De Lie, Cedric Beullens (Lotto Dstny) and Bryan Coquard (Cofidis). They have been later joined by one other 4 riders: Oier Lazkano (Movistar), Kévin Vauquelin, Raúl García Pierna (Arkéa-B&B Accommodations) and Magnus Cort (EF Schooling-EasyPost).
Philipsen and Girmay have been on the lookout for factors on the intermediate dash – Then sat up
USA champion, Sean Quinn Sean (EF Schooling-EasyPost) did plenty of work within the break
The eight reached the foot of the Col du Tourmalet collectively, however within the meantime a second group was on its manner. This included Jasper Philipsen and Biniam Girmay, who have been nonetheless combating for factors for the inexperienced jersey within the intermediate dash. Girmay was barely sooner and moved additional up within the factors rating. The 2 sprinters dropped out, however among the different counter-attackers joined the Van der Poel group.
The monster Col du Tourmalet
Some members of the unique main group needed to cross, together with De Lie, leaving 18 males on the entrance. Along with Lazkano, Vauquelin, Pierna, Cort and Van der Poel, these have been: Fabien Grellier (TotalEnergies), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan), Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Wanty), Simon Geschke (Cofidis), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Dstny), Ben Healy, Rui Costa and Sean Quinn (EF Schooling-EasyPost), David Gaudu (Groupama FDJ), Marco Haller (Pink Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon AG2R), Michal Kwiatkowski (INEOS Grenadiers) and Christopher Juul-Jensen (Jayco AlUla).
Nils Politt (UAE Group Emirates) did plenty of work on the Tourmalet for the peloton
On the Tourmalet the main group shortly thinned out, primarily as a result of work of Sean Quinn, however Mathieu van der Poel wasn’t in bother. He summited with the primary group, simply behind Oier Lazkano. The Spaniard had attacked simply earlier than the highest and took the Memento Jacques Goddet. Within the peloton, UAE Group Emirates managed with first Tim Wellens after which Nils Politt. They ensured that the distinction to the escapees, which had elevated to 4 minutes, was lowered to three:30 0n the climb.
Nils Politt (UAE Group Emirates) did plenty of work on the Tourmalet for the peloton
On the foot of the Hourquette d’Ancizan (8.2km at 5.1%), the ten remaining leaders nonetheless had 3 minutes on the peloton. After 2 kilometres of climbing, Van der Poel needed to let his fellow escapees go. He wasn’t the one one. On the high there have been nonetheless 5 riders on the entrance: Healy, Meintjes, Kwiatkowski, Lazkano and Gaudu. The Frenchman was first, forward of Lazkano. Within the peloton, Marc Soler had taken care of many of the climb. The Spaniard had minimize the distinction to the escapees to simply over 1 minute.
Quinn was on the entrance many of the manner up the Tourmalet
On the Pla d’Adet, the ultimate climb, the lead had elevated barely. This was not sufficient to compete for the stage victory, however Gaudu and Healy took the lead. It was the Irishman who turned out to have the most effective legs. He quickly went solo and saved the hole to the favourites group steady for a very long time. Nevertheless, the tempo behind was additionally very excessive as a result of UAE Group Emirates. First Soler was within the lead, then Sivakov after which Almeida, 4th general. This was too quick for Wilco Kelderman.
Movistar’s Oier Lazkano jumped away over the Tourmalet
The peloton saved it stead up the Tourmalet, however was pulling within the break
At 7.5 kilometres from the summit Adam Yates attacked, seventh general and teammate of yellow jersey, Tadej Pogačar, jumped away. Matteo Jorgenson of Visma | Lease a Bike chased. Yates was capable of draw back from the Pogačar-Vingegaard-Evenepoel group for 30 seconds. He was nearly on Healy when Pogačar attacked 5 kilometres from the highest. The yellow jersey instantly opened a niche on Vingegaard. Yates was ready for him.
As you’d count on, the followers have been out
Yates towed Pogačar for slightly. The UAE Emirates duo went previous Healy, similar to Vingegaard and Evenepoel did later. The distinction between the 2 pairs remained small, however 4kilometres from the highest Pogačar went on his personal. Now the Slovenian began to maneuver additional away from Vingegaard. Three kilometres from the highest he had 10 seconds on the Dane, in the direction of the ultimate kilometre the distinction elevated to greater than 20 seconds.
UAE Group Emirates had the race underneath management
What was left of the break began the ultimate climb – It was Ben Healy who went solo
Within the closing kilometre Pogačar pushed on and took some extra time. On the end Vingegaard misplaced 39 seconds. Remco Evenepoel, third on the stage, got here in at 1:10 and dropped to third general.
Pogačar had Yates up the highway and jumped after him
Stage win and time within the financial institution for Tadej Pogačar
Stage winner and general chief, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Group Emirates): “The plan was to win the stage within the closing dash and attempt to get just a few bonus seconds, however profitable like that is manner higher! We discovered ourselves in an excellent state of affairs. Adam’s assault put me in a state of affairs by which I might assault, following my intuition. It’s due to the superb work of my teammates that I’ve executed this, and I’m grateful to all of them. I’m tremendous glad I’ve gained. I’ve obtained yet another Tour stage win now. Let’s preserve this optimistic vitality so we are able to win extra. This Tour de France should be nice to observe on TV. I used to be feeling actually good immediately. Issues weren’t going in line with plan on the ultimate climb, as we have been lacking one man – Juan [Ayuso] needed to pull out from the race yesterday and so Joao [Almeida] was working very exhausting already with 8 km to go. I noticed a chance that Adam Yates might assault and go for the stage win himself, relieving us from pulling within the Yellow Jersey group. Then, as I used to be feeling tremendous good and no one was attempting something GC-wise, I noticed a chance to assault myself, bridge throughout and get an excellent hole for the GC in addition to the stage win. I wish to stress my due to Adam for his work immediately. The state of affairs within the GC is unquestionably higher now than it was earlier than the stage, however you by no means know the way issues will find yourself. There’s a lengthy option to go till Good. The actual mountain phases simply began immediately! The secret’s we’ve got a robust crew to assist my choices. In each interview they inform me that I’ve to save lots of vitality, however I like racing on intuition. Typically it really works, typically it doesn’t… however I find it irresistible that manner.”
Vingegaard misplaced time on the yellow jersey, however handed Evenepoel
Remco Evenepoel restricted his losses
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Tour de France Stage 14 Consequence:
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Group Emirates in 4:01:51
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike at 0:39
3. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Fast-Step at 1:10
4. Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa) INEOS Grenadiers at 1:19
5. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek at 1:23
6. Santiago Buitrago Sanchez (Col) Bahrain Victorious
7. Adam Yates (GB) UAE Group Emirates
8. Felix Gall (Aust) Decathlon-AG2R-La Mondiale at 1:26
9. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma | Lease a Bike at 1:29
10. Derek Gee (Can) Israel-Premier Tech.
Tour de France Total After Stage 14:
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Group Emirates in 56:42:39
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma | Lease a Bike at 1:57
3. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Fast-Step at 2:22
4. João Almeida (Por) UAE Group Emirates at 6:01
5. Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa) INEOS Grenadiers at 6:09
6. Mikel Landa Meana (Spa) Soudal Fast-Step at 7:17
7. Adam Yates (GB) UAE Group Emirates at 8:32
8. Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Lidl-Trek at 9:09
9. Derek Gee (Can) Israel-Premier Tech at 9:33
10. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma | Lease a Bike at 10:35.
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