Tour de France 2023 stage 6 LIVE: Peloton races up the Tourmalet on 145km route in Pyrenees
Tadej Pogacar bounced relieve in vintage kind to ranking the sixth stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, gaining a psychological edge over Jonas Vingegaard though the defending champion took the total leader’s yellow jersey.
The Slovenian, who lost floor to Vingegaard in Wednesday’s first mountain stage, resisted his rival’s attack in the Col du Tourmalet before going solo on the closing climb to Cauterets-Cambasque and beating the Jumbo Visma rider by 24 seconds.
After Australian Jai Hindley, who claimed the yellow jersey on Wednesday, used to be dropped before the highest of the Tourmalet, Vingegaard and Pogacar had been feature to wrestle for the stage ranking on the final ascent, a 16-km effort at 5.4%.
Pogacar attacked with 2.7km left, taking Vingegaard after the Dane’s team had done the entirety to feature him up for the ranking all day.
Overall, Vingegaard leads Pogacar by 25 seconds and third-placed Hindley by one minute and 34 seconds.
Notice the total latest updates from stage six below:
Tour de France 2023 – Stage Six
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Highlights – closing kilometre of stage six
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Tadej Pogacar wins stage six!
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3km to switch: Pogacar attacks Vingegaard shut to summit enact
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95km to switch: Bryan Coquard takes 20 aspects in the flee before Wout van Aert
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115km to switch: Neilson Powless claims two KOM aspects atop Cote de Capvern-les-Bains
Highlights – closing kilometre of stage six
16:46 , Lawrence Ostlere
A respect relieve at that closing kilometre:
Tadej Pogacar wins stage six
16:39 , Lawrence Ostlere
You might well presumably also hold a peer on the plump standings in each category in the speed tracker above.
Tadej Pogacar wins stage six
16:37 , Lawrence Ostlere
The 2 superstars of this Tour de France salute one another:
Jonas Vingegaard takes the yellow jersey
16:34 , Lawrence Ostlere
That used to be big fun. Vingegaard now leads the Tour de France by 25 seconds from Pogacar. Jai Hindley is third at +1min 34sec, and no one else is inner three minutes.
Stage six – top 5 finishers
16:29 , Lawrence Ostlere
1. Tadej Pogacar2. Jonas Vingegaard, at 23’’3. Tobias Halland Johannessen, à 1’22’’4. Ruben Guerreiro 2’06’’5. James Shaw, 2’15’’
Tadej Pogacar wins stage six
16:28 , Lawrence Ostlere
Rob a peer at that ruthless attack:
Tadej Pogacar wins stage six
16:26 , Lawrence Ostlere
Jai Hindley is accessible in two and a half minutes down on the leaders – he’ll quit the yellow jersey to Jonas Vingegaard. Pogacar shall be 2nd in the present classification, about half a minute down on the Danish reigning champion. What a Tour we have in store now.
Tadej Pogacar wins stage six!
16:23 , Lawrence Ostlere
What an assault by Pogacar! He wins stage six with that unmatchable solo attack to the summit at Cauterets. Vingegaard comes dwelling 23 or 24 seconds down, as nicely as a whereas bonus too.
Tour de France stage six – Pogacar closes in on enact line
16:22 , Lawrence Ostlere
400m to switch: The avenue flattens out and this can even swimsuit Pogacar nicely – he goes to flee to the twin carriageway…
Tour de France stage six – Pogacar passes flamme rouge in entrance
16:21 , Lawrence Ostlere
1km to switch: Pogacar passes the flamme rouge with a 15 2nd lead over Vingegaard now…
Tour de France stage six – Pogacar pushes on against stage ranking
16:20 , Lawrence Ostlere
1.5km to switch: Vingegaard has done brilliantly to be in contact – the gap is all the manner down to ideal seven seconds – however Pogacar is surely going to ranking the stage…
Tour de France stage six – Pogacar leaves Vingegaard on the relieve of
16:19 , Lawrence Ostlere
2km to switch: Wow, what an attack by Pogacar. He regarded cooked the day outdated to this; now he appears to be like to be like unbeatable. He leaves Vingegaard about 10 seconds relieve down the mountain – can he elevate the gap before the enact?
Tour de France stage six – Pogacar attacks!
16:17 , Lawrence Ostlere
3km to switch: Pogacar remains locked on Vingegaard’s wheel. This is accrued, perfect stuff from the Slovenian two-time champion, who in total takes the showman option… however now Pogacar attacks!
Tour de France stage six
16:15 , Lawrence Ostlere
3.5km to switch: Vingegaard continues to assign an everyday high-tail, and he glances relieve to appear if Pogacar needs to attack and hold the lead – Pogacar declines. That is now not in his nature, to be defensive, however tactically it is the correct switch. He can build his legs for the highest and beat Vingegaard to the ranking and the bonus seconds. Kwiatkowski falls relieve, unable to withhold.
Tour de France stage six – Vingegaard attacks!
16:12 , Lawrence Ostlere
4km to switch: Van Aert pulls aside and Vingegaard accelarates! Pogacar is the correct surely one of the well-known lead community who can assign with him, and Vingegaard sees that and slows down. Kwiatkowski takes the different to bridge relieve to the entrance two, and it’s now a 3.
Tour de France stage six
16:10 , Lawrence Ostlere
5km to switch: The yellow jersey community of Jai Hindley and a bunch of other riders are about two and a half minutes on the relieve of the leaders, who remain locked on Van Aert’s wheel.
Tour de France stage six – Van Aert awarded combativity prize
16:05 , Lawrence Ostlere
7.5km to switch: In news that gained’t shock anyone, Wout van Aert has gained the day’s combativity prize for basically the most aggressive rider.
Tour de France stage six – Powless loses contact
16:03 , Lawrence Ostlere
8.5km to switch: Van Aert appears to be like to be like so sturdy. What a improbable performance by the Belgian, as soon as extra, who has been attacking on the entrance all day, having also challenged for sprints and hilly phases earlier this week. The definition of an elite all-rounder.
His high-tail is forcing Neilson Powless to lose contact with the leaders. So the entrance eight becomes seven:
Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X), Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar), James Shaw (EF Education), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos), Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates).
Tour de France stage six
15:59 , Lawrence Ostlere
10km to switch: So what goes to unfold on the entrance? At some level soon Wout van Aert goes to step aside and let Vingegaard attack, it is probably going you’ll well presumably judge. Pogacar will attempt and practice – he failed to build so the day outdated to this, however he appears to be like to be like sturdy and serene correct now.
Can any of the the rest of this community scenario the gargantuan two for the stage ranking? Michael Kwiatkowski has plenty of expertise in these eventualities and Ruben Guerreiro is a sturdy climber. Nonetheless the realistic respond is, no.
Tour de France stage six
15:55 , Lawrence Ostlere
12km to switch: The avenue isn’t too steep correct now however legs ought to be starting to burn after this kind of brutal day on the dwell of a necessary opening week to this Tour de France. The 2nd community are about three minutes on the relieve of the lead pack, and the yellow jersey of Jai Hindley is in there. He’ll peaceable bear gargantuan ambitions for the rostrum, no matter losing yellow in the present day, and that is the wrestle in that 2nd community now.
Emannuel Buchmann, Simon and Adam Yates and David Gaudu are all in that 2nd community and bear designs on a excessive GC placing.
Tour de France stage six – entrance community birth closing cimb
15:49 , Lawrence Ostlere
16km to switch: Wout van Aert leads the entrance eight on to the closing climb. It doesn’t birth too consuming however it tricks up over 10% gradient shut to the highest, the put it is probably going you’ll well presumably judge we are able to appear a Pogacar-Vingegaard showdown.
Tour de France stage six – lead groups merge
15:39 , Lawrence Ostlere
23km to switch: So there are truly eight riders on the entrance…
Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X), Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar), James Shaw (EF Education), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos), Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) and Neilson Powless (EF Education).
Van Aert is the person on the entrance, pulling them along.
Tour de France stage six – community two closing in on leaders
15:37 , Lawrence Ostlere
25km to switch: The chasers – Van Aert, Vingegaard, Pogacar and Powless – are closing in on the entrance quartet (Johannessen, Guerreiro, Shaw, Kwiatkowski) as all of them shut to the foot of the closing climb to the summit enact at Cauterets. The gap between the groups is all the manner down to about 20 seconds and it appears to be like they are going to soon be hiking all together.
The winner of this stage is quite surely among these eight riders.
Tour de France stage six
15:29 , Lawrence Ostlere
35km to switch: Because it stands, Vingegaard will hold the yellow jersey from the shoulders of Jai Hindley, who used to be left on the relieve of on the Tourmalet when Jumbo-Visma upped the high-tail.
Tour de France stage six – two groups of 4 lead the device
15:25 , Lawrence Ostlere
38km to switch: So, a mercurial summary.
Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X), Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar), James Shaw (EF Education) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos) are flying down the descent from the Tourmalet against the foot of the closing climb to the summit enact.
About 30 seconds on the relieve of them is the community containing Jonas Vingegaard and Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) and Neilson Powless (EF Education).
Tour de France stage six
15:17 , Mike Jones
47 km to switch: Wout van Aert leads till the closing 100m of the climb before Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X) takes basically the most 20 aspects in the king of the mountains classification. He went thru a minute bit of jostling with Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar) however pipped him on the twin carriageway.
Vingegaard and Pogacar crest the mountain glorious 43 seconds on the relieve of them.
Tour de France stage six
15:12 , Mike Jones
48km to switch: Sepp Kuss has done his job for Jumbo-Visma teammate Jonas Vingegaard and drops away leaving a two horse wrestle between the reigning champion and Tadej Pogacar.
Up forward the breakaway community are coming into the closing kilometre of the Col du Tourmalet.
Tour de France stage six
15:08 , Mike Jones
49km to switch: Jai Hindley can’t withhold with Jumbo-Visma and Pogacar so drops relieve to the peloton. Wout van Aert is working laborious for his teammates in the breakaway.
Jonas Vingegaard goes to be the favourite to ranking this stage correct now.
Below two kilometres to switch for the leaders till they crest the Tourmalet.
Tour de France stage six
15:05 , Mike Jones
50km to switch: Oh wow. Jumbo-Visma and Jonas Vingegaard make their switch to attack excessive of the Tourmalet. Tadej Pogacar and Jai Hindley persist with them with spherical 5 km for this community to switch before the summit.
Tour de France stage six
15:01 , Mike Jones
51km to switch: Four kilometres to till the summit of Col du Tourmalet. The breakaway has lost a few members and is now all the manner down to glorious 10 riders which entails Wout van Aert, Julian Alaphilippe and Neilson Powless.
Powless and Alaphilippe shall be competing for the KOM aspects.
Tour de France stage six
14:57 , Mike Jones
Tour de France stage six
14:Fifty three , Mike Jones
Fifty three km to switch: The breakaway is hitting the extra complex ingredients of the climb now and the peloton has diminished the time gap to under four minutes.
Wout van Aert is controlling the high-tail and tempo of the leaders as soon as extra.
Tour de France stage six
14:42 , Mike Jones
56.5km to switch: Jai Hindley has a shut to leave out as surely one of his Bora-Hansgrohe helpers tried to scramble him a water bottle and dropped it. It bounced in between the wheels of the yellow jersey holder who breathes a declare of reduction and carries on up the mountain.
Shaw and Alaphilippe are drawn relieve into the breakaway pack as they didn’t attempt and work together to forestall out entrance.
Tour de France stage six
14:37 , Mike Jones
58 km to switch: Now then! Julian Alaphilippe kicks on and tries to some high-tail into the climb from the entrance of the peloton. James Shaw is up their with him however there’s a prolonged, prolonged scheme to switch to the summit.
11km really.
Tour de France stage six
14:36 , Mike Jones
59 km to switch: Right here is the virtual KOM classification after Col d’Aspin:
1. Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost), 30
2. Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen), 28
3. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Crawl), 19
4. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe), 18
5. Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), 15
That would possibly well also all replace by the level they ranking to the highest of the Tourmalet though.
Tour de France stage six
14:29 , Mike Jones
62 km to switch: The breakaway has passed thru a few kilometres in the prolonged, now not easy climb up the Col du Tourmalet. This lope is each gruelling and thrilling.
Wout van Aert, ever the competitor, is on the entrance. No surprises there.
Tour de France stage six
14:25 , Mike Jones
65 km to switch: The main appeal of this stage is the Col du Tourmalet. It’s a 17.1km climb up the iconic mountain which has some degree out gradient of 7.3%.
The gap between the breakaway leaders and the peloton is now up to four minutes 25 seconds. We’ll look how this climb goes to opt the put this stage winner will attain from.
Tour de France stage six
14:22 , Mike Jones
67 km to switch: American Neilson Powless moves relieve to the highest of the King of the Mountains standings, taking the virtual polka dot jersey from Felix Gall. He said before the day that the KOM level had been his procedure for stage six.
“I felt magnificent correct the day outdated to this. I used to be glorious riding the noxious wave and neglected the switch.
“Nowadays, I are seeking to on the very least stop in the game a minute bit. It depends. Felix Gall is a nice looking sturdy climber, so it’ll be laborious to hold it off his shoulders. Nowadays’s a in actuality correct different for aspects however also a stage ranking.”
Tour de France stage six
14:18 , Mike Jones
71 km to switch: The breakaway flies down the descent because the peloton crests the highest of Col d’Aspin. They’ve held the time gap at spherical 3’20” over the route of the category 1 mountain and viewed nicely placed to catch up on the Tourmalet.
Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert hold to the entrance on the downhill.
Tour de France stage six
14:14 , Mike Jones
76.8 km to switch: Right here we scramble then. Contained in the closing 500m for the climb up Col d’Aspin. Wout van Aert peaceable has the lead across the 6% gradient.
Neilson Powless is on his wheel and bursts into the lead with 100m to switch. He crosses the twin carriageway and takes basically the most aspects in the KOM wrestle.
It’s been a correct day for him and he’s relieve in the lead for the polka dot jersey.
Tour de France stage six
14:07 , Mike Jones
79km to switch: Jumbo-Visma are making a switch. As they hold to the entrance of the peloton, Wout van Aert, their man in the breakaway, blitzes to the top of the total field too.
Van Aert steps on the pedal and takes price with 2.2km to switch till the highest of the Col d’Aspin.
Tour de France stage six
14:03 , Mike Jones
80km to switch: Bora-Hansgrohe continue to manipulate the peloton from the entrance and are holding the time gap to the breakaway at spherical 3’23”.
The peloton is caught into the climb up Col d’Aspin now with the leading community having a slightly over 3km left to the summit.
Tour de France stage six
13:59 , Mike Jones
81.5 km to switch: Benoît Cosnefroy can’t withhold with the high-tail of the breakaway because the community flies up the hill. Extra relieve Fabio Jakobsen is dropped by the peloton and escorted by a few team-mates.
The European champion heavily crashed for the length of the flee on stage 4 and wishes some assist to ranking relieve into the main pack.
Tour de France stage six
13:55 , Mike Jones
82 km to switch: The 2nd half of the Col d’Aspin reaches gradients of spherical 9% which is gruelling on the legs. Even extra so with the sure wager that the more sturdy, longer and steeper Col du Tourmalet is peaceable to attain relieve.
Tour de France stage six
13:50 , Mike Jones
85km to switch: The kilometres don’t appear to be any longer flying by because the Col d’Aspin takes its toll on the leaders. They’re thru four kilometres already.
It’s the 76th time for the peloton of the Tour de France to climb to Col d’Aspin.
Octave Lapize used to be first to crest in first residence in 1910 and the lhe final person used to be Thibaut Pinot final 365 days. The Frenchman is in the peloton correct now however the 2nd final “winner” of Col d’Aspin (in 2018) used to be his compatriot Julian Alaphilippe, who’s allotment of the breakaway.
Tour de France stage six
13:forty eight , Mike Jones
Tour de France stage six
13:44 , Mike Jones
87km to switch: The Col d’Aspin is a category 1 mountain with a 12km climb at some degree out gradient of 6.5%. The closing six-four kilometres are by a ways the worst allotment of this one for the riders.
The entrance of the breakaway hits the infamous of the climb with a lead of three minutes 22 seconds over the peloton. If the stage winner is to attain relieve from the breakaway in the present day they must delay that time gap by the dwell of this mountain.
Tour de France stage six
13:41 , Mike Jones
89 km to switch: Right here’s the tntermediate flee cease in plump:
1. Bryan Coquard, 20 pts
2. Wout van Aert, 17 pts
3. Mathieu van der Poel, 15 pts
4. Jonas Gregaard, 13 pts
5. Anthony Perez, 11 pts
6. Oliver Naesen, 10 pts
7. Matteo Trentin, 9 pts
8. Neilson Powless, 8 pts
9. Nikias Arndt, 7 pts
10. Michal Kwiatkowski, 6 pts
11. Matîs Louvel, 5 pts
12. James Shaw, 4 pts
13. Gorka Izagirre, 3 pts
14. Chris Juul Jensen, 2 pts
15. Krists Neilands, 1 pt
Tour de France stage six
13:37 , Mike Jones
92km to switch: Bryan Coquard takes basically the most 20 aspects in the flee classification (green jersey) for Cofidis. With two gargantuan mountains to attain relieve in the stage that’s his work for the day done and dusted.
He gained’t be in contention to ranking the stage so don’t be stunned if he drops relieve to the peloton at some stage.
Tour de France stage six
13:33 , Mike Jones
96km to switch: These in the breakaway are positioning themselves before the intermediate flee. Wou van Aert is by no device the entrance however has previously said he isn’t drawn to the golf green jersey.
Bryan Coquard is let thru by Van Aert who takes to his relieve wheel and follows him over the twin carriageway. Coquard takes the aspects for the flee.
Tour de France stage six
13:28 , Mike Jones
100km to switch: Bora-Hansgrohe bear upped the tempo on the entrance of the peloton and are holding the gap between them and the breakaway at three minutes.
That shall be in the low cost of sharply as soon as the leading riders attain the next mountain climb.
Tour de France stage six
13:24 , Mike Jones
104km to switch: A radio message from team TotalEnergies is extremely revealing. They are usually now not overjoyed. None of their riders went with the breakaway and the team officials are usually now not impressed.
Tour de France stage six
13:17 , Mike Jones
106km to switch: The time gap between the breakaway and the pelation atop Cote de Capvern-les-Bains is three minutes 15 seconds. Which is a tight lead however nothing too worrisome for the GC riders in the main pack.
The subsequent challege is the intermediate flee at Sarrancolin.
Tour de France stage six
13:13 , Mike Jones
111km to switch: Nowadays is the 2nd time team Bora-Hansgrohe bear the yellow jersey.
In 2018, Peter Sagan took it after a success stage 2 in La Roche-sur-Yon and wore it for the length of the team time trial in Cholet. It used to be also the tenth Tour de France stage ranking for Bora-Hansgrohe the day outdated to this.
The German team is taking allotment in the Tour de France for the tenth consecutive time.
Now they’ve all form of individual stage victories: in bunch sprints, flat and uphill, with Peter Sagan (5), ITT with Maciej Bodnar in Marseille in 2017, from breakaways in medium area phases with Lennard Kämna, Nils Politt and Patrick Konrad, and a mountain stage with Jai Hindley.
Tour de France stage six
13:08 , Mike Jones
115 km to switch: There’s 250 metres left till the highest of the Cote de Capvern-les-Bains, Neilson Powless takes the the entrance as they attain the highest and he claims a few aspects in the King of the Mountains wrestle.
Kasper Asgreen takes one level.
Tour de France stage six
13:00 , Mike Jones
118 km to switch: The Cote de Capvern-les-Bains is the first of in the present day’s climbs. It’s a 5.6km uphill category 3 with a gradient of 4.8%. No longer basically the most complex of the mountains in the present day and one which the breakaway must address with out too mighty hassle.
Tour de France stage six
12:58 , Mike Jones
120km to switch: 5 riders, Neilson Powless (EF-Education EasyPost), Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Fleet Step), Oliver Naesen (AG2R-Citröen), Anthony Perez (Cofidis) and Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar) bear closed the gapt to the breakaway which now sits at 20 riders.
In the meantime in the peloton Bora-Hansgrohe are on the entrance atmosphere the high-tail. Yellow jersey holder Jai Hindley rides for this team.
Tour de France stage six
12:50 , Mike Jones
125km to switch: Many of the present classification riders, in conjunction with Jonas Vingegaard, haven’t left the pelaton however they’ll peaceable be favourites for the stage ranking.
The first of the climbs in the present day arrives in 10km.
Tour de France stage six
12:47 , Mike Jones
Tour de France stage six
12:44 , Mike Jones
130km to switch: The breakaway is now over two minutes before the pelaton with a 2nd community of chasers glorious 47 seconds on the relieve of the leaders.
Right here’s the list of riders out entrance: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Matteo Trentin (UAE Crew Emirates), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost), Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Fleet Step), Nikias Arndt (Bahrain Victorious), Benoît Cosnefroy (Ag2r-Citröen), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Krists Neilands (Israel-PremierTech), Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Matîs Louvel (Arkéa-Samsic), Tobias Halland Johannessen and Jonas Gregaard (Uno-X).
Tour de France stage six
12:38 , Mike Jones
135km to switch: UAE Crew Emirates bear managed to hold a residence in that leading community with Matteo Trentin joining them when the gap used to be in the low cost of to eight seconds.
Moreover up there are among them are Mathieu van de Poel and Christopher Juul-Jensen.
Tour de France stage six
12:36 , Mike Jones
Possess a witness of Wout van Aert’s blazing birth. He used to be the main leader in getting the breakaway determined on the leave reel:
Tour de France stage six
12:35 , Mike Jones
137km to switch: The high-tail of the pelaton starts to delay and the gap between them and the breakaway cuts to eight seconds.
Alaphilippe moves to the entrance of the field and puts the pedal all the manner down to be ready to ranking the breakaway even clearer. His efforts pay off as they hit a tiny decline and the gap starts opening up as soon as extra.
Tour de France stage six
12:31 , Mike Jones
141 km to switch: There are a kind of riders in the breakaway with Julian Alaphilippe (Soudal-Fleet Step) among them. I’m able to count 9 of them in the leading pack with a line of three to four stragglers on the relieve of them.
The pelaton is already 14 seconds on the relieve of and that gap is growing.
Creep away reel
12:28 , Mike Jones
And they’re off!
Wout van Aert flies straight to the entrance of the field and leads a breakaway of about 10 or so riders. The Jumbo-Visma is an explosive rider and he’ll be shut to the entrance for many of this early allotment of the day.
Tour de France stage six
12:26 , Mike Jones
The crowds had been out in Tarbes to witness the pelaton leave the metropolis for the beginning of stage six. This shall be an thrilling day’s riding with extra than a few tactics in play as they noxious the mountains.
Tadej Pogacar on his Tour to this level
12:22 , Mike Jones
The 2-time Tour de France winner, Tadej Pogacar spoke to Eurosport about how his 2023 Tour has been growing to this level. Asked the put things bear gone awry to this level, he spoke back:
“Maybe minute well-known aspects – a minute bit of the entirety. The form is right here however I judge the next days I will even be even greater.
“Jonas [Vingegaard] used to be nice looking sturdy the day outdated to this. I judge he would bear made a predicament anyway. We’ll look the next days if I’m able to respond. I’m correct.”
Jai Hindley leads the Tour
12:19 , Mike Jones
Jai Hindley is a Tour de France debutant and can wear the yellow jersey for the first time after his solo ranking at Laruns the day outdated to this. He has an income of 47 seconds over defending champion Jonas Vingeagaard and 1’03’’ over Giulio Ciccone.
Former speed leader Adam Yates is 1’34’’ down in fifth with double total winner Tadej Pogacar 1’40’’ on the relieve of in sixth residence.
Tour de France stage six
12:14 , Mike Jones
The riders bear trigger off against the leave reel with a truly easy and casual bolt thru Tarbes. They’re 7km a ways off from the put the route officially begins and would possibly well hold about 10 minutes or so as to ranking there.
Tour de France stage six
12:12 , Mike Jones
Tarbes hosts a birth for the thirteenth time.
The final time used to be for stage 14 of 2019 tour. At the enact atop the Tourmalet, Thibaut Pinot gained from Julian Alaphilippe and Steven Kruijswijk.
That used to be also the final ranking to this level on the Tour for Pinot.
Weather outlook
12:09 , Mike Jones
At spherical 25 levels celsius, it’s hot in Tarbes the put the pelaton items off for the day’s bolt. Issues must ranking cooler because the progress thru the 145km route and there could be a possibility of rain later in the afternoon.
A threat of thunderstorms is a right possibility by the level they attain the Tourmalet.
Frequent classification after stage 5
12:06 , Mike Jones
1. Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) 22hrs 15mins 12secs
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) +47secs
3. Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Crawl) +1min 03secs
4. Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) +1min 11secs
5. Adam Yates (UAE Crew Emirates) +1min 34secs
6. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Crew Emirates) +1min 40secs
7. Simon Yates (Crew Jayco-Alula) + 1min 40secs
8. Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Crawl) +1min 56secs
9. Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Ineos Grenadiers) +1min 56secs
10. David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ) +1 min 56secs
How Stamp Cavendish was a Tour de France account – based mostly totally mostly on his fierce opponents and trusty teammates
12:03 , Mike Jones
Stamp Cavendish as soon as gave me the peer.
It used to be an interview in a hotel lobby in Yorkshire; he used to be a minute bit tedious and apologised profusely, then answered questions referring to the Tour de France with enthusiasm and detail.
For some motive, I believed 10 minutes of flowing conversation made me his relied on confidant, so I regarded him in the eyes and requested: how mighty build you must shatter Eddy Merckx’s Tour stage document? He shrugged it off. Nonetheless what would it point out to you? He went accrued. Wouldn’t it crown your legacy?
The peer used to be someplace in the venn device of infuriate and disdain, and I half anticipated him to plod off. He stayed, however in that temporary moment I felt the gentlest prod of his renowned spikiness. Cavendish used to be as soon as requested what he’d realized from an advanced day on the bike. “That journalists most ceaselessly query some lifeless f***ing questions,” he spoke back.
How Stamp Cavendish was a Tour de France account – based mostly totally mostly on opponents and teammates
Cavendish ready for stage six
11:56 , Mike Jones
Stamp Cavendish is having a peer forward to in the present day’s stage however is aware of this isn’t one for him to excel. Cavendish is famously a sprinter and positions himself shut to the entrance when a stage items up for a tight, racing enact.
Nowadays’s route is the other. It’s all about mountains, hiking and timing your moves perfectly. No longer ideal for the sprinters in the pelaton.
Jai Hindley wins Tour de France stage 5 to hold yellow jersey
11:49 , Mike Jones
Jai Hindley gained stage 5 of the Tour de France in Laruns to hold the yellow jersey from Adam Yates and Jonas Vingegaard rode determined of rival Tadej Pogacar as an early time out to the Pyrenees ripped up the present classification.
Hindley, winner of ultimate 365 days’s Giro d’Italia, marked himself out as a first-rate contender with a breakaway victory however surely extra well-known used to be the peek of defending champion Vingegaard leaving on the relieve of two-time winner Pogacar on the closing climb to make his case because the favourite to be in yellow attain Paris.
Having gone determined from the final of his fellow escapees on the closing climb of the Col de Marie Blanque, Hindley soloed into Laruns to hold the ranking by 32 seconds, with Vingegaard coming dwelling on the relieve of a four-sturdy community that used to be 2nd on the avenue.
Jai Hindley wins Tour de France stage 5 to hold yellow jersey
Stage 6 map and profile
11:44 , Mike Jones
A breakdown of in the present day’s 145km route:
First comes a minute category three climb before an intermediate flee, that would possibly well also nicely be contested by the riders drawn to the golf green jersey – Jasper Philipsen is in a sturdy residence in the aspects classification after a success relieve-to-relieve sprints.
Then comes the Col d’Aspin (12% at 6.5%) which so in total precedes the Tourmalet (17.1km at 7.3%), the Tour’s most visited climb which is able to hold the peloton over 2,000m excessive.
A prolonged, mercurial descent follows before the climb to Cauterets (16km at 5.4%), a prolonged bolt that will more than seemingly be draining on the legs after this kind of necessary first week.
Stage six birth time and prediction
11:40 , Mike Jones
The stage is feature to birth at spherical 12.20pm BST and is anticipated to enact at spherical 4.20pm.
Prediction: Jonas Vingegaard must assign aside down the hammer on the climb to Cauterets and hold the stage ranking.
Jersey standings before stage six
11:37 , Mike Jones
There used to be masses of changes in the jersey standings following the conclusion of stage 5 with each the yellow and polka-dot jersey altering fingers.
Right here’s who will wear the jersey this afternoon:
Yellow: Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe)
White: Tadej Pogacar (UAE Crew Emirates)
Green: Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck)
Polka Dot: Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citroën)
Tour de France 2023 stage 6 preview: Route map and profile of 145km from Tarbes to Cauterets by scheme of the Tourmalet
11:32 , Mike Jones
The 2023 Tour de France ignited on Tuesday’s stage 5 as Australia’s Jai Hindley stormed into the yellow jersey and reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard dominated his main rival Tadej Pogacar. Hindley escaped in the breakaway and each Vingegaard’s Jumbo-Visma and Pogacar’s UAE Crew Emirates took too prolonged to shut the gap, permitting the Bora-Hansgrohe rider to push on on my own and claim a ultimate solo ranking.
With it, Hindley jumped to the highest of the present classification and took the yellow jersey from Adam Yates, who caught up to the struggling two-time champion and UAE team leader Pogacar, they generally carried out together extra than a minute and a half on the relieve of Hindley and a minute down on the ominously sturdy Vingegaard.
Stage six goes deeper into the excessive Pyrenees, and the peloton will climb the iconic Col du Tourmalet en path to the first summit enact of the Tour in Cauterets.
Tour de France stage 6 preview: Iconic Tourmalet items up yellow jersey wrestle
