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BBC News
26-07-2025
- Climate
- BBC News
Tour de France - Groves wins penultimate stage as Pogacar closes in on title defence
Update: Date: 16:05 BST Title: 'I suffered to the line and as a reward we get a Tour stage' Content: Stage winner Kaden Groves said: "There are so many emptions to win here. The team, we came here with so many different plans with Jasper [Philipsen] and Mathieu [van der Poel]. "In the end, I get my own opportunities and they haven't gone the right way. But today I had super legs. I just suffered to the line and as a reward we get a Tour stage. "The team gave me a free role in the last few days. We weren't sure if I should go for it today or wait until tomorrow. But when the rain falls, I always have a super feeling normally, in the cold weather. It's my first time winning solo - and it's in a Tour stage. Pretty incredible." Update: Date: 15:56 BST Title: General classification after stage 20 Content: Update: Date: 15:41 BST Title: Pogacar set to seal fourth Tour win after finishing unscathed Content: There was a crash as the peloton rolled through to the finish but Tadej Pogacar was unscathed so the reigning champion will seal his fourth Tour title on Sunday. The final day of the Tour is a processional stage, where traditionally the general classification leader is not challenged. As he crossed the line, Pogacar even got a pat on the back from his great rival Jonas Vingegaard. Update: Date: 15:29 BST Title: Stage 20 results Content: Update: Date: 15:25 BST Title: Post Content: Kaden Groves is sobbing as he's congratulated at the finish. Update: Date: 15:24 BST Title: Groves claims first Tour stage win Content: Kaden Groves taps his chest and holds his arms aloft as he completes the trilogy of winning a stage on each of the three Grand Tour races. Update: Date: 2km to go Title: Post Content: Alpecin-Deceuninck's team car is right next to Kaden Groves, giving him some motivation for the finis - as if any was needed. The Australian is set to become the Belgian team's third winner on this year's Tour, after Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel triumphed on the first two stages. Update: Date: 5km to go Title: O'Connor gives up the chase Content: The gap is now 48 seconds as Kaden Groves approaches Pontarlier. Back in the peloton, compatriot Ben O'Connor has nothing left and is forced to accept he will relinquish a top-10 GC spot to Jordan Jegat. They are more than six minutes back from Groves. Update: Date: 10km to go Title: Post Content: Kaden Groves is now 40 seconds clear of Frank van den Broek, with Jake Stewart having dropped back to be joined by Simone Velasco. Update: Date: 15km to go Title: Groves takes lead Content: Kaden Groves puts the pedal down, and Jake Stewart and Frank van den Broek just look at each other and let the Australian get away. He builds a 25-second lead by the time he reaches the 15km mark. Update: Date: 20km to go Title: Post Content: It's all change at the front again. Kaden Groves, Frank van den Broek and British rider Jake Stewart now lead the way. Update: Date: 22km to go Title: Ouch! - Nasty falls for Gregoire & Romeo Content: Romain Gregoire attacks on the downhill, before Ivan Romeo charges to the front. And as the pair go into a wet turn, Romeo hits the deck and slides into the kerb. A split-second after Romeo goes down, Gregoire follows suit, but at least he didn't get the double-whammy of slamming into the kerb too. The Frenchman gets back on his bike but Spanish youngster Romeo is hurt. Update: Date: 24km to go Title: Polka-dot jersey - Gregoire takes final climb Content: Romain Gregoire is first over the summit and Kaden Groves accelerates over the top, followed by Simone Velasco, Frank van den Broek and Jake Stewart. Update: Date: 25km to go Title: Post Content: The chaser groups have joined Harry Sweeny on the slopes. Ivan Romeo attacks but local favourite Romain Gregoire, being cheered on by fans on the climb, gets back to him. Update: Date: 27km to go Title: Sweeny & Groves survive scare Content: Hilly 184.2km stage, Nantua to Pontarlier The leading riders are onto the final categorised climb of this year's Tour outside Paris. It's a 2.5km ascent of Cote de Longeville, which has an average gradient of 5.5%. Harry Sweeny and Kaden Groves slip on the wet climb but the Australian pair somehow manage to stay upright. Update: Date: 30km to go Title: Post Content: Pascal Eenkhoorn, Romain Gregoire, Frank van den Broek, Kaden Groves and Jake Stewart have closed to within 15 seconds of Harry Sweeny. Jordan Jegat's group is 25 seconds further back, with Matteo Jorgenson and Tim Wellens on the charge behind them. Update: Date: 35km to go Title: Post Content: The chase group is down to five, including British rider Jake Stewart, and there's now four groups along the road between stage leader Harry Sweeny and the peloton. It's all going off. Update: Date: 40km to go Title: Post Content: Ben O'Connor is pulling the bunch with Jayco AlUla team-mate Mauro Schmid in a bid to stop Jordan Jegat taking a top-10 GC spot off him. Update: Date: 45km to go Title: Post Content: The rain is coming down again, with Harry Sweeny leading by 40 seconds. The gap to the bunch is now up to 5mins 15secs. Update: Date: 48km to go Title: Vingegaard needs new bike Content: More than four minutes back in the peloton, Jonas Vingegaard is racing back after stopping to take a new bike. That gap means Jordan Jegat, who is now in the chase group, has gone above Ben O'Connor in the virtual GC standings.
Daily Mail
16-07-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Wout van Aert is a BOOSTED 6/1 with Sky Bet to win stage 11 of the Tour de France with sprinters expected to battle for victory
The Tour de France will resume on Wednesday with sprinters expected to battle for victory on a flat stage before the race heads into the Pyrenees. Stage 11 will see the peloton complete a 156 kilometre loop around the city of Toulouse. The largely flat stage features a flurry of climbs in the latter stages, which could see punchier riders clinch victory ahead of the outright sprinters. As a result, Mathieu van Der Poel is viewed as a 7/2 favourite to claim victory and add to his win from stage two. Sky Bet are, however, offering a Price Boost on Wout van Aert to triumph on stage 11. The Belgian star's odds have been boosted from 11/2 to 6/1 to secure the stage win. Tadej Pogacar, Quinn Simmons and Jonathan Milan are viewed as the next most likely stage winners, with the trio priced at 16/1. Three-time Tour de France winner Pogacar remains a 1/5 favourite to win the Grand Tour. The Slovenian star is currently 29 seconds behind the yellow jersey, Ben Healy of Ireland. Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard lie second and third respectively in the general classification after the first rest day. Vingegaard, the two-time champion, remains second favourite to win the Tour at a price of 7/2. Evenepoel is third favourite at 33/1, while current leader Healy is 50/1 to claim the overall victory. Sky Bet odds for stage 11 winner of the Tour de France (Each Way: 1/4 Odds, 3 Places): Mathieu van Der Poel - 7/2 Wout van Aert WAS 11/2 NOW 6/1 Tadej Pogacar - 16/1 Quinn Simmons - 16/1 Jonathan Milan - 16/1 Sky Bet odds Outright Winner Tour de France: Tadej Pogacar - 1/5 Jonas Vingegaard - 7/2 Remco Evenepoel - 33/1 Ben Healy - 50/1
The Independent
10-07-2025
- Sport
- The Independent
Ireland's Ben Healy breaks clear to win Tour de France stage six
Ireland's Ben Healy soloed to victory on stage six of the Tour de France as Mathieu van der Poel took the yellow jersey back from Tadej Pogacar by a single second. Healy went alone from an eight-strong breakaway group with 42km left of the deceptively difficult 201.5km stage from Bayeux to Vire Normandie, claiming his first career Tour stage win and Ireland's first since Sam Bennett enjoyed two in 2020. The 24-year-old, born and raised near Birmingham, quickly built a lead over his former companions, and a counterattack from American pair Quinn Simmonds and Michael Storer failed to make significant inroads before they drifted back, with Healy ultimately winning by two minutes 44 seconds from Simmonds. It is the biggest win of his career to date, eclipsing his breakaway win on stage eight of the 2023 Giro d'Italia into Fossombrone. 'It's just unbelievable really,' the EF Education-EasyPost rider said. 'It's what I've worked for not just this year but the whole time really, it's really incredible, hours and hours of hard work from so many people and to pay them back today is really amazing. 'This was a stage I had circled in the book from the start and to do it in the first one is amazing.' Van der Poel had also been part of the breakaway, finishing eighth on the day, just shy of four minutes behind Healy. At one point the Dutchman enjoyed a virtual lead in yellow of around three minutes over Pogacar, but that was reduced to a single second by the end of the day as the world champion marked moves from Jonas Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike squad on the approach to the finish, then sprinting to the line. Though he lost the yellow jersey he took from Van der Poel in Wednesday's time trial, Pogacar will be more concerned with the gaps to his main rivals over the full three weeks, and he remains 42 seconds clear of Remco Evenepoel and one minute 13 ahead of Vingegaard. 'Visma went hard so we just followed,' Pogacar said. 'The first two hours were super hard, incredibly fast and then we were deciding if we go for the stage or not, and we decided not to spend the bullets so we rode our pace. 'Nils (Politt) did an incredible job, then Marc (Soler) and the rest of the team. Visma on the last two kickers were just riding all out. 'Maybe they had info that Van der Poel was suffering in the front, losing time, and maybe they wanted to give me yellow, but I think Mathieu has it for one second so chapeau to him. It was a super ride from him today.' Healy, a known breakaway specialist, had been in virtually every attempt to go clear. Giro d'Italia winner Simon Yates and Eddie Dunbar were also in the group that eventually made it, finishing fourth and fifth respectively.
