86 km: Your mere presence is enough to make us happy! Kiss, love and Hénaff pâté.
87 km : Patrcik Konrad released by the group of pursuers! Hindley only has Buchmann at his side on this first climb of the day.
88 km : The debate of the moment concerns Mads Pedersen, who has decided not to get up to support his leader, Ciccone, in the chasing group, and who continues to lead the way with Van Aert and Campenaerts. It must be grumbling in the DS car from Lidl-Trek.
89 km: Let’s go for the first ascent of the day (and of the Tour)! And it starts out of the category, with 15.2 km at an average of 7.2. Yum ! For my part, I attack my pancake (complete, without white) with relish.
91 km: Madouas shakes up the chasing group!
Seeing the gap widening with the leading trio (1’20), the French champion decides to accelerate. Christophe Laporte jumps into his wheel.
96 km : David Gaudu and the FDJ team come back to the front of a peloton led by Konrad, Jay Hindley’s teammate.
101 km: The leading trio now has a lead of more than a minute over the pursuers, as we approach the Col de Soudet gently.
107 km : Bryan Coquard decided to get up and return to the big group of pursuers. They are therefore three in the lead with a 36′ lead: Van Aert, Campanaerts and Pedersen.
109 km : Action, reaction, the UAE have taken the lead and are setting a good pace.
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111 km : Note that Bryan Coquard took the 20 points of the intermediate sprint in Lanne-en-Barétous, ahead of Mads Pedersen, Van Aert and Campenaerts.
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112 km : It’s smoking under the helmets on the UAE side!
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116 km: Coquard, Van Aert, Campenaerts and Pedersen broke away to play the intermediate sprint. They are 13 seconds ahead of the group.
117 km : Mads Pederson raises, Van Aert throws himself in pursuit in stride.
119 km : Hindley is accompanied by Konrad and Buchmann, it will start to bite the nails among the leaders of the teams which have not left the peloton.
121 km: Popopo it seems that Jai Hindley, winner of the Tour of Italy 2022 and currently 7th in the general classification, is in the leading group. It will start to whip on the side of the Jumbo and the UAE.
122 km: He is there my friend, he is there!
126 km: Let’s go! 1’10 lead now for the 36 (!) runners, including some very nice linen as we said.
130 km: 37 seconds on the peloton for the herd
Come on, we’re starting to have the beginning of something. Almost 40 seconds ahead for the leading group, with Jumbo (Van Aert, Laporte and Benoot) and UAE (Grossschartner and Soler).
134 km : It’s not an escape there, it’s a herd. There are at least thirty runners, including Uran, Madouas, Alaph, van Aert, Coquard. And the peloton is right behind, 20 seconds away.
139 km : Pogacar put a little stress on the Jumbo by getting up on his bike to try to join the big leading group, but everything was back to normal. It was just a small spade from the Slovenian, who likes to tickle Vingegaard, to see how it reacts.
140 km : It’s going flat out and the breakaway is having a lot of trouble forming. It throws, it raises, but no one manages to really drop the pack.
143 km: That’s it, Pierre Latour is no longer alone!
A group breaks away, led by Julian Alaphilippe, with a dozen runners. But I doubt it holds, the peloton is just behind, quietly on the lookout.
147 km : After a third failed attempt by Nelson Powless, the polka dot jersey, it’s Wout van Aert’s turn to accelerate in the company of a rider from the EF Education-EasyPost team and another from Israel – Premier Tech training.
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149 km: Ouch, it stinks for Fabio Jakobsen, already in difficulty, 24 hours after his fall yesterday in the finish at Nogaro.
152 km : Van der Poel tries to join Pierre Latour but is caught directly by the peloton.
153 km: Chute de Mattias Skjelmose!
But nothing serious a priori for the Danish champion of the Lidl-Trek team, here he is already back at the back of the peloton, well helped by Tony Gallopin and Mads Pedersen who have been waiting for him.
155 km : Until something more or less readable takes shape, here is a little reading with our second episode of the series on Pinot, simple cyclist. Today we come back to this fucking abandonment in 2019, when he had everything to win. The testimonials are strong. I pay a pint to anyone who doesn’t pour a little teardrop. 158 km: Pierre Latour launches a first attack
And he’s not followed by… anyone. The rider of the Total Energie team is surprised when he turns around to see that no one reacts. Well, he is 10 seconds ahead and will quickly fall into line. Note that we will have 80 km before the first pass of the day, that of Soudet, classified out of category.
162 km: Come on, let’s go, the big cats are unleashed!
13h22 : Which does not please all the runners, very marked by the death of Gino Mäder during a dangerous descent. We talk about all this in an article dedicated to the issue of safety on the descents. 1:21 p.m : Here is the profile of today’s stage, with three passes on the program, but an arrival after a descent.
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1:20 p.m .: For Pinot, the breakaway of the day will go to the end. What do you think ?
For the idol of the French? the breakaway, or one of the breakaways, will go to the end in Laruns. What do you think ? Give us your predictions in the comments, we’ll discuss them as the stage progresses.
13h15 : Nice little game of questions and answers before the start of the race. We learn today that Tibopino should not embark on a breakaway today to concentrate fully on his role as David Gaudu’s lieutenant. Which doesn’t mean that we won’t have a Groupama-FDJ in the breakaway.
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1:10 p.m : Saluuuuuuuuuuut the Juillettists! And hello also to all the workers, but also to all those who have failed due to age and unemployment, those deprived of the cake, those excluded from sharing. Welcome to this first day in the Pyrenees, we are going to enjoy ourselves after the purge offered yesterday by the runners.
9 a.m.: Hello, friends of the little queen
We agree, we had a long and painful moment on Tuesday between Dax and Nogaro. But rest assured, it will necessarily be better this Wednesday during a fifth special Pyrénées-Atlantiques stage, between the unmissable city of Pau and the village of Laruns, which has already experienced two stage finishes, in 2018 then in 2020 Each time, a Slovenian won: Primoz Roglic and Tadej Pogacar. The first is absent this year, but not the second, which would undoubtedly mark its territory from the first mountain stage, even if it is not the most formidable of the lot.
» Meet at 1:05 p.m. and the fictitious start to experience this fifth stage
