Bonjour and welcome to Cyclingnews' live coverage of st🅰age 12 of the 2024 Tour de Fran𒈔ce!
Just under two hours to go before today's stage starts and it's l🔯ooking like another sprinter-f🐟riendly day in the saddle.
The full map of today's stage.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mark Cavendish's lead-out man 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Michael Mørkøv is out of the Tour de France with🍌 a COVID-19 infection, his Astana Qazaqstan team has announced.
Mark Cavendish lead-out man Michael Mørkøv leaves Tour de France after testing positive for COVID-19
Astana have posted the news to social media now. Cavendish will f🐻ight on without his top lead-🔯out man
Now a look back at yesterday's stage 11 which brought another𓃲 chapter in the yellow jersey battle.
A look at yesterday꧅'s stage result and subsequent updated GC rankings, powered by .
Around an hour to go to the start now.
Riders will be siౠgning on ahead of the stage in 𒐪Aurillac.
167 riders set to start today after Mørkøv's departure, barring any further wit🍬hdra꧑wals.
Bri🙈tish rider Fred Wright was the previous man to leave the race after missing the time cut on stage 11.
'Worst day of my life' - Fred Wright suffers through stage 11 with broom wagon and misses time limit
And now a look ahead to today's race with our stage 12 preview - Sprinters return to spotlight
Television coverage starts when the race does so be sure to check out How to watch the 2024 Tour de France – TV schedule, live streaming worldwide
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The riders 🍸are now about to roll out and start the neutral zone at the start of stage 12.
Just a🐻 few minutes until the kick off the stag෴e officially.
203km to go
Kevin Gen💟iets (Group🔯ama-FDJ) is the first man on the move.
Live pictures at the race are briefly down 🦄due to technical error.
Thomas Gachinar🙈d (TotalEnergies) joins Geniets in the attack.
Meanwhile 𒈔Fabio Jakobsen is already out the rear of the pel🐭oton.
The Dutchman is 1:20 off the peloton now.
187km to go
The attackers are caught and now it's Valentinܫ Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) on the move.
182km to go
Jakobsen now already four minutes down and cou🌳nting. He surely doesn't have long left to run in this race.
Race leader Tadej Pogačar is held up by a tangle in the peloton meanwhile.
178km to go
Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies) now in the a🌠ttacking ♔group.
Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) chasing.
Madouasꩲ, Pacher, Abrahamsen, Turgis is our break of the day as Martin gives up the chase.
The peloton slowing down to let Pogačar back in really helped the breakaway men there.
167km to go
Alpecin-Deceuninck, Intermar💖ch&ea🍰cute;-Wanty among the teams at the head of the peloton now.
A dowhill run onto lower roads and 𝕴towards the first climb o🌱f the day now.
After 62.8km, the ꧙riders will hit the fourth-category Côte d'Autoire.
147km to go
Over the top of the C&ocir♕c;te d’Autoire (2.7km at 5.7%) and Abrahaওmsen gets the point.
He moves within two of Pogačar's KOM lead.
135km to go
Pello Bilbao off the rear of the pe🐼loton💜 currently. He looks to be ill.
The break of the day wi⛄th Abrahamsen leading the way.
Under 10km to go until the riders hit the Côte de Rocamadour (2km at 5.4%), anotheಞr fourth-category climb o💃ffering one point.
Bilbao got back and he's now off 𒐪the rear of the race again🥃.
120km to go
Abrahamsen leads the break over the Côte de Rocamadour, which hosted the Van Aert-Vingegaard one-two at the Tour's 🙈closing time trial two years ago.
116km to go
Pello Bilbao (Bahrain Victorious) follows Fabio Jakobsen in leaving the race. That isn't too much of a surprise give how 💯his stage was unfolding.
Mørk&oꦿslash;v, Jakobsen, Bilbao leave the race today.𒉰165 riders remain.
111km to go
10km to the intermediate sprint in Gourdon now, then one final fourth-cate𓆏gory climb left before the finish.
A scenic shot of the peloton during stage 12.
100km to go
Interma✅rché lead the peloton towards the sprint.
Up front it was Turgis who led Abr💦ahamsen over the line.
Girmay leads Philipsen in the peloton to extendꩵ his KOM lead by a single point.
Now Alpecin-Deceuninck and Movꦬistar are back leading the peloton, now 1:35 down on the brea🍸k.
Much of the day's climbing is now over and done with. One small climb left to tackle💫.
82km to go
1:20 ๊for the ജmove and the time is only coming down.
76km to go
5km to the final climb of the day, the ☂Côte de Montcléra (2km at 4.8%).
Abrahamsen leading the break up the final climb of the ꧙stage now.
They're 55 seconds up ಌon the peloton her🐷e. Turgis dropping from the break.
68km to go
60km to go
The peloton only closing in now as the fini🐷sh nears.
49km to go
42km to go
The peloton earlier on during stage 12.
38km to go
We'𓂃re looking set for a fairly d𝔍ull run into the final few kilometres of the stage here.
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Race leader Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates teammates in the peloton.
28km to go
Mostly flat roads towards the finish now.
Jonas Vingegaard riding towards the finish 🍒on stage 12.
20km to go
The day has averaged 47kph, quicker ༒than the fastest predicted time schedule, so at least we'🌸re finshing earlier than expected.
16km to go
UAE, Ine🍌os, Israel, DSM, Jayco, Bahrain, Movistar, Alpecin all spread across th🐬e front of the group.
12km to go
An Astana rider crashed into ༒an island in the middle of the road, falling over to the other side and then causing a chain reaction further back.
Riders from Lo🦩tto, Jayco, Arkèa, Astana still at the scene, getting up slowly after the crash.
It looks like a Lotto rider on the left of the road might be in trouble. Two of his teammates have𒈔 stayed behind with him. He's being attended to by medics.
Meanwhile, Primož Roglič is chasing back to the peloton after being caught in the crash.
Alexey Lutsen💝ko is reportedly still be🌱ing tended to at the site of the crash.
8km to go
It'll be very෴ h🌳ard for him to get back. The timing is going in the wrong direction here.
DSM move to the front of the peloton.
5km to ho
UAE now up front.
Pogačar is staying safe up there.
DSM, Astꦡana, Uno-X among the teams represented up front.
3km to go
Abrahamsen le🐈ads the way with Israel, Bahrain, and Astana lining up behind him.
All setting up for the sprint now.
2km to go
It looks as though all the big-name spr🐼inters are up there.
1km to go
A big mix of teams up front.
Bahrain with the leadout.
Israel, Arkéa, Uno-X behind.
Now Arkéa take over.
Démare kicks off the sprint
Behind him it's Girmay, Cavendish, Van Aert.
It looks like Démare will hold on but no, 🔴there's a late surge on his left.
Finish
Roglič just now reaching the final kilometre.
Biniam Girmay celebrates hi♒s third Tour de France 2024 stage victory in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
Girmay beat Van Aert and Démare into second and thi🥀rd. Pascal Ackermann and Mark Cavendish finished fourth and fifth.
No full confirmation of Roglič's time loss yet.
There we go – he finished in 120th place at 2:27 down onꦛ Girmay and the peloton. Brutal for the Slovenian. He did go down in the crash, as evidenced by the tears in his jersey.
After that stage, Roglič drops from fourth to sixth in the GC behind João Almeida and Carlos Rodríguez. He's now at 4:42 down on Pogačar.
Here's what Girmay had💝 to say after his third stage wi🧸n of the Tour...
Here's the stage result today...
And here's the new GC
Arnaud Démare has been relegated from third position so now Pascal Ackermann moves up onto the stage podium. More to come on that ꦆꦜsoon.
Another day in yellow for Tadej Pogačar, who also leads the king of the mountains competition.
Girmay extended his green jersey lead, meanwhile.
And Evenepoel has another day in the ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚwhite best yoꦗung rider jersey to enjoy.
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