Tour de France stage 14 LIVE - Will anyone challenge Pogačar on the hardest stage yet?
The peloton tackles a demanding day in the high mountains, crest🥀ing the Col du Tourmalet, Col𒀰 d’Aspin, Col de Peyresourde and the summit finish to the ski resort at Superbagnères
Steff Cras has stopped on the roadside. He has the dejected look of a m💞an who is about to reluctantly leave the Tour de France.
That Milan move had about 15 👍riders in it, but has been neutralis𒐪ed.
Wightඣ’s capture has instigated new attacks - and Mila🐼n’s involved again.
150KM TO GO
Wright has been brought back by the peloton.
Like Milan before him, Wright looks frustrated at the lack of any company.. He’s ten seconds ahead, but keeps looking behind him, no doubt in the hope of being joined by some other breakaway 🏅riders.
We have a new lone leader on the road - Fred W♌right, who has a gap of a few seconds.
Simmons, Skjelmose and Aꦏlaphilippe are at the front of a move trying to go clear, but to no avail. Lots of riders are marking each other.
The peloton, which is still all together.
Milan has thought better of it, sitting up and allowing himself to be reabsorbed by the peloton. For that ploy to have worked, and for him to get a headstart for the intermediate sprint, he really needed s🍃ome riders with him to form🐼 a breakaway.
Behind Milan, who’s still a few seconds ahead, plenty of tentative moves are being made from the peloton, but nob🍌ody is committing to a b🌱ig attack, and the peloton is all still together.
160KM TO GO
The green jersey, making his move.
Berthet is bandaged up and back in the peloton.
Milan t🙈herefore still leads alone, but almostꦑ 20 seconds.
About 13 riders did 🦂form a group trying to join up to Milan, but that's been shut down.
Milan is all alone and looking beh🦩ind him, hoping no doubt for🔯 some accompaniment.
An interesting move here - Jonathan Milan in the green jersey has attacked. There is an intermediate sprint before the 🅰Tourmalet, so he could stand a chance of increasing his lead in that classification if he can get into the 🌞break.
170KM TO GO
Clément Berthet🌄 is at the doctor's car, receiving some magic spray. He appears to have gone down in a crash.
Andreas Leknessund is keen, but h♏e's brought back too.
There’s aꦺ lot of riders looking at each other in the peloton, but no big attacks. It’s all bunched up at the moment.
As you can see f♓rom the start, it's a much gloomier day in the Pyrenees today.
Pacher briefly had a smalไl gap, but has been brought back.
Alaphilippe tries an attack but does not succeed, and now Pacher counter-at🍸ta💃cks.
Simmons is at the front of the peloton, but didn't manage to go cl𓆉ear.
And they're off! Quinn Simmons is on the attack immediately, with his Lidl teammate S🌃kjelmose on his wheel.
OFFICIAL START
They’re at kilometre 0, but the start has been delayed asꦍ a few riders have to return to the peloton.
The riders are just 1km away from the official start. Some are massi�🦹�ng towards the car, ready to launch moves.
The rain has eased off for n꧂ow, but it’s⛄ still cloudy. If it rains some more, the long descents of the mountains on the menu today could become dangerous.
The weather has changed🍌 overnight. From the searing heat of yesterday, we now have some rain and much cooler temperatures. That could change which riders 🔜excel, and which ones struggle.
We're at the Départ🔥 fictif in Pau, and will be racing in about ten minutes.
For Reౠmco Evenepoel, you expect this might be more of a defensive stage than offensive. The Belgian has looked well short of his best since entering the Pyrenees, and his place on the podium has now come under serious pressure after losing more time yesterday.
Jonas Vingegaard might find himself 4:07 down on GC after yesterday’s defeat to Pogačar, but the Dane isn’t giving up on the yellow jersey just yet. Today provides a chance for him to bounce back, and, along with his strong Visma-Lease a Bike team, try to put Pogačar under pressure.
As well as being in the yellow jersey, Pogačar is four stage wins up after his cruising victory yesterday - and has his sights on more. He’s the top favourite for the win today again, and his words to the media yesterday indicates that he has no intentions of giving any opportunities away.
For some pre-start fun, we highly recommend this deep dive into Pog's heavily modified mountain time trial bike from stage 14.
Tadej Pogačar's heavily modified 6.9kg Colnago Y1Rs for his Tour de France mountain time trial domination
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Tour de France 2025 stage 14 preview - Finale in the Pyrenèes strikes with four fierce climbs to mountaintop finish
Today is simply a savage day in the mountains.
It has it all - the Col de Tourmalet, a summit finish on Luchon-Superbagnères and nearly 5,000m of elevation.
This is a true leg-breaker.
Bon♚jour and welcome to our live coverage of stage 14 of the 2025 T𒆙our de France!
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