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BBC News
6 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Arensman holds off favourites to win stage 19 as Onley cedes time in podium bid
Update: Date: 17:08 BST Title: Until tomorrow... Content: That's all from me today. You can head over here to read the developing report on all the drama from stage 19. We'll be back again tomorrow for the penultimate stage of this year's race. That one is a rolling 184.2km route from Nantua which should favour breakaway specialists as it snakes over the hills of the Jura towards Pontarlier. Catch you then! Update: Date: 17:05 BST Title: Post Content: "I feel absolutely destroyed," says Thymen Arensman. "I can't believe it. Already to win one stage in the Tour was unbelievable from a breakaway, but now to do it against the GC group, against the strongest riders in the world, it feels like I'm dreaming. "I don't know what I just did." Update: Date: 16:55 BST Title: General classification standings Content: Update: Date: 16:47 BST Title: Post Content: It was THAT close. Jonas Vingegaard just went 100m too late to deny Thymen Arensman. Update: Date: 16:40 BST Title: Stage 19 results Content: Update: Date: 16:36 BST Title: Post Content: Florian Lipowitz finishes fourth to protect his podium place, followed 41 seconds later by Britain's Oscar Onley. It has been a phenomenal effort from Onley, but after giving himself a shot at a top-three finish yesterday he just didn't have the legs to put Lipowitz under more pressure today. He is nonetheless all but assured of a fourth-place finish - and what an incredible result that is for the 22-year-old. Update: Date: 16:35 BST Title: Post Content: Thymen Arensman is in tears. He can't believe he has held on for that! Tadej Pogacar only had eyes for the yellow jersey and comes across the line with Jonas Vingegaard. Update: Date: 16:33 BST Title: Arensman wins stage 19 Content: They left it too late! Thymen Arensman holds his arms up in celebration and crosses the line just as Jonas Vingegaard swings round the final corner in pursuit. Update: Date: 16:32 BST Title: Post Content: 300m to go It doesn't look as though Tadej Pogacar is going to go for it! Thymen Arensman is closing in on victory! Jonas Vingegaard goes... Update: Date: 16:32 BST Title: Post Content: 700m to go Florian Lipowitz continues to lead the charge to the finish, with Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard following behind. Thymen Arensman is 700m from victory - but has just 10 seconds of his lead remaining! Update: Date: 16:30 BST Title: Post Content: 1km to go Florian Lipowitz takes over at the front as he seeks to drive home his advantage to Oscar Onley, who can only watch as what would have been a remarkable podium finish disappears up the road ahead of him. Thymen Arensman's lead falls to 12 seconds with one kilometre remaining. This is going to be very, very close! Update: Date: 16:29 BST Title: Onley drops back Content: 2km to go Oscar Onley loses the wheel of Florian Lipowitz, but recovers brilliantly to get back on and avoid serious damage. Worrying moments for Onley as Tadej Pogacar begins to wind-up for a big finish. He loses touch again, and this looks like it could be it for his podium hopes... Update: Date: 16:27 BST Title: Post Content: 2km to go The riders are climbing at an average gradient of 8% on this section. Still Tadej Pogacar eats away at Thymen Arensman's lead as we await the big move from this main group of four. Update: Date: 16:26 BST Title: Post Content: 3km to go Just 22 seconds. That is the time gap Oscar Onley needs to find to catch Florian Lipowitz in the final podium place. This is the place to do it. No move just yet as we enter the final three kilometres. Update: Date: 16:22 BST Title: Post Content: 5km to go Into the final 5km of the final mountain stage of this year's race! Thymen Arensman is rocking from side to side as his lead comes down further, now little over 20 seconds as Tadej Pogacar continues to chip away in pursuit of the stage win. The top four general classification riders remain locked together, with Florian Lipowitz sticking to Oscar Onley's back wheel. Update: Date: 16:19 BST Title: Post Content: 6km to go Thymen Arensman's lead drops below 30 seconds following that effort from Tadej Pogacar. The Dutchman is working hard at the front of the race to try and protect his lead for as long as possible, but the odds are very much against him here. Update: Date: 16:16 BST Title: Onley follows Pogacar and Vingegaard Content: 7km to go Tadej Pogacar goes again. Jonas Vingegaard follows. And so does Britain's Oscar Onley! No immediate response from Florian Lipowitz, but he manages to latch back on to this group of four. The top four in this year's general classification. What a finish this is set up to be. Update: Date: 16:14 BST Title: Post Content: 8km to go Tadej Pogacar is on the front of the main group, still featuring many of the general classification top-10, but still more than 30 seconds behind Thymen Arensman. Update: Date: 16:08 BST Title: Post Content: 10km to go Florian Lipowitz continues to closely follow Oscar Onley up the climb. When will Onley decide to try and test his podium rival? He'll be wary of going to soon and risking blowing up with 10km still to go. Primoz Roglic is done, now more than four minutes down on the peloton, so there is no concern for Onley in terms of fourth place. Little to lose, everything to gain... Update: Date: 16:06 BST Title: Post Content: 11km to go Thymen Arensman has an advantage of around 30 seconds now, as Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar are caught by the main group. If Vingegaard and Pogacar want this stage, they're going to want to go again very soon with Arensman looking strong here.
New York Times
6 days ago
- Sport
- New York Times
Tour de France, stage 19: Arensman wins at La Plagne, Lipowitz defends podium from Onley, why did Vingegaard leave it so late?
Thymen Arensman soloed to another win on stage 19 of the Tour de France on Friday, surprisingly outlasting Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar on the climb to La Plagne, the final hors categorie mountain of this year's race. Florian Lipowitz, meanwhile, put 41 seconds into Oscar Onley to all but seal third place and the white jersey competition. Advertisement News broke yesterday evening that Friday's stage would be truncated and rerouted due to an agricultural emergency, so opportunities to create the sort of chaos we saw yesterday were limited. That didn't stop Primoz Roglic reprising his adventurism from stage 18 and heading off up the steep Col du Pre along with Lenny Martinez and stage 16 winner Valentin Paret-Peintre. But any hopes the trio had of an epic raid through one of the most beautiful parts of the Alps were undermined by UAE's determination to keep them within arm's reach all day. Roglic descended the Cormet de Roselend superbly to build an advantage of around a minute but was shut down with ease in the valley that led to the La Plagne climb. 🤩 The stunning Barrage de Roselend ! 🤩 Le magnifique barrage de Roselend!#TDF2025 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 25, 2025 All eyes were on Pogacar and Vingegaard on that final ascent but the crucial moment, when it came, was subtle. INEOS Grenadiers' rider Arensman made a couple of attempts to go off the front as rain drenched the favorites, and even when he got some separation with around 13 kilometres remaining, a stage-winning lead never looked realistic. But as the top four on GC watched each other, and the distance remaining ticked down, the expected attack from Pogacar or Vingegaard didn't come. Arensmen buried himself to win, and crossed the line, exhausted, just two seconds ahead of both Vingegaard — who belatedly kicked for victory with a few hundred metres remaining — and Pogacar. 🏆 He played, he won! A look back at the last kilometer of stage 19 and the victory of @ThymenArensman! 🏆 Il a joué, il a gagné ! Retour sur le dernier km de l'étape 19 et la victoire de @ThymenArensman !#TDF2025 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 25, 2025 The Dutchman now has two stage wins in this year's Tour, as many Vingegaard has recorded in the last three editions combined. It was hard to shake the feeling that that the Visma leader had let a win slip through his fingers by waiting for a Pogacar attack that never came. Jacob Whitehead and Tim Spiers break down the key moments from the stage. Find all of The Athletic's Tour de France coverage here. Or follow Global Sports on The Athletic app via the Discover tab. An Alpine peak, that was not. Friday's stage 19 was always likely to lack the punch of the previous day, featuring fewer metres of climbing, and at shallower gradients, but as the final major climbing opportunity before Paris, this was the last real opportunity to force any major gaps. Having been shortened at late notice on Thursday evening — it was cut from 129.9km to 95km after a herd of cows with nodular dermatitis were slaughtered on the Col des Saisies — it had also appeared to present the illusion of being fast and furious. Would any team ride it like a team time trial, ratcheting up the pace before launching a huge attack? In reality, the loss of the Saisies climb made the racing far more conservative. With Lidl-Trek preventing any breakaway before the intermediate sprint, protecting Jonathan Milan's green jersey, the flat run-in to the notoriously steep Col du Pre gave no leading team the opportunity to stash a satellite rider up the road. Advertisement With that, the tactical playbook was slashed in two — a similar stand-off occurred in 2018, when a 65km stage from Bagneres‑de-Luchon to Saint-Lary-Soulan left the GC contenders marking each other, rather than take a major risk. This year, as well, the riders were coming off one of the toughest days in modern Tour history — a triple-header of the Col du Glandon, Col de la Madeleine, and Col de la Loze. They appeared genuinely exhausted — turning the final ascent to La Plagne into a rainy uphill grind at a relatively flat pace. This was about engines — not acceleration. 'I just want to get on the bus and get in the hot shower,' a visibly exhausted Pogacar said after the stage. Faced with this profile, Vingegaard never really had an opportunity to gain the four minutes and 26 seconds he needed to snatch yellow from Pogacar. Instead, his best opportunity to salvage any extra from this Tour would be a stage win — he opted to let Pogacar pace, stay on his wheel, and take his chances on the sprint. In the event, Vingegaard beat Pogacar on an uphill finish for the first time in this race — pipping him by a bike length, and, with the time bonuses, actually reducing his deficit to the Slovenian by a couple of seconds. But the prize here was the stage win, not a two-second comeback, and that honour went to Thymen Arensman. It was an odd finish to a truncated day. Jacob Whitehead As Thymen Arensman did a huge, owl-like swing of his head to quickly look directly behind him 100 or so metres from the line, he couldn't believe what he was seeing: tarmac and nothing else. No yellow jersey within a trimmable distance, no polka dot jersey, just victory. A shock victory. The Dutchman had already won a stage in the Pyrenees but in very different circumstances, with him having generated a gap of as much as three-and-a-half minutes on stage 14, enabling him to hold off the cavalry relatively comfortably when they charged. Here, his advantage over Pogacar, Vingegaard, Lipowitz and Onley was never more than 30 seconds after he attacked 13 kilometres from the finish of the achingly long La Plagne climb. It seemed only a matter of time before the GC riders reeled Arensman in, even if that was to be via a very late sprint finish. With one kilometre to go the gap was 18 seconds… then it came down to 10 seconds, but Arensman gave every possible last ounce of effort and wasn't caught. After he practically fell over the line, Arensman then literally fell into the advertising boards, sat on the floor and covered his face with his hands with incredulity. He couldn't believe what he'd just achieved. 💪 Brutal#TDF2025 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 25, 2025 'I'm absolutely destroyed,' he said. 'I can't believe it, already to win one stage in the tour from a break, unbelievable, but now, from the GC group against the strongest riders in the world, it feels like I'm dreaming. 'It's Tadej and Jonas, they're the strongest in the world, almost aliens. 'As a human I still wanted to try and beat them. I don't know what I just did.' As well as immense personal glory, Arensman has also saved INEOS Grenadiers' Tour. They lost Carlos Rodriguez, who was 10th on GC, a couple of days earlier, but two iconic Arensman victories surely makes up for that, in racing terms at least. Tim Spiers Florian Lipowitz has been the third-best climber of the Tour de France, but at times he has not ridden like it. The German's challenge has been tactics — having only begun riding seriously as a 19-year-old, his huge engine needs to be aimed in the right direction. Holding just a 22 second lead over Oscar Onley, he looked in potential trouble with 10 kilometres left. Roglic's ultimately-futile early attack had robbed him of a potential Red Bull ally, while Onley had teammate Frank van den Broek alongside him. Advertisement But here, rather than attack early and risk another major blow-up, Lipowitz was happy to ride defensively, following Onley's wheel. The Scot would have wanted to attack earlier on La Plagne, but with Vingegaard and Pogacar marking each other, Onley would have risked Lipowitz pacing his way back behind the two strongest riders. In the end, Onley cracked first. As the pace increased in the final kilometres, with Thymen Arensman being chased down for the stage victory, the 22-year-old teetered, before then being definitively separated from the leading trio. Lipowitz then pushed the pace himself — eventually finishing 41 seconds ahead of Onley. His lead is now 63 seconds — and although there are potential time-gaps in Saturday's lumpy stage 20, Red Bull's strength means it is extremely unlikely that a gap of that size will be overhauled. It will be Lipowitz's first Grand Tour podium, after finishing seventh in last year's Vuelta a Espana, and the first German to finish in the Tours top three since Andreas Kloden in 2006. Jacob Whitehead Has there been more of a Jekyll and Hyde game of two halves from any rider on any stage of this year's Tour de France than what Primoz Roglic served up in stage 19? First half: what a day he's having! Oh this is the Primoz of old, it's great to see! Allez Primoz! Second half: pain, misery, into the reddest of red zones, practically riding backwards, oh this is awful to see, a once-great champion humbled in this manner. Poor Primoz! It's safe to say Roglic's intentions, for the second successive stage, weren't really to ride in support of his podium-chasing younger teammate Lipowitz. The Slovenian was desperate to get in the big break of the day and succeeded up the Col de Pre, then took 20-odd seconds on Valentin Paret-Peintre and Lenny Martinez on the descent towards La Plagne. However, he put so much effort into forging that lead, he forgot, or had no intention of, saving himself for the final climb. Roglic è un missile in discesa 🤯🚴♂️💨 Lo sloveno con una masterclass nella discesa del Cormet de Roselend #TDF2025 #Cycling #Roglic — Eurosport IT (@Eurosport_IT) July 25, 2025 The pace of UAE Emirates and Tim Wellens meant he was swallowed up some 20km from the finish, just before the start of the climb, and then he began riding through treacle, eventually finishing more than 12 and a half minutes down. That cost him a top-five place on GC, moving him down to eighth, not that you would imagine he was particularly bothered. Advertisement His solo effort did nothing for the team, nor for his own personal position. But he did it his way — and it was never going to be any other way. Tim Spiers The penultimate stage of the race takes in the Jura mountains, and although it doesn't feature anything tougher than a second category climb, the peloton will be tired and — for teams who have not won a stage by this point — a bit desperate. Expect a breakaway in this one, plus some late action in the general classification race too, if we're lucky. For more cycling, follow Global Sports on The Athletic app via the Discover tab
National Post
6 days ago
- Sport
- National Post
Culling of infected cows leads to shortened 19th stage of Tour de France
LA PLAGNE, France — The 19th stage of the Tour de France was shortened on Friday after cows infected by a contagious disease were culled in an area along the mountainous route. Article content The stage from Albertville to La Plagne was meant to be 129.9 kilometers (80.5 miles) long but trimmed to 93.1 kilometers (57.7 miles), according to the official Tour website's stage map on Friday. Article content Article content Article content Two of the five climbs were removed, including the 13.7 kilometer Col des Saisies — where an outbreak of nodular dermatitis affected a herd of cows, race organizer ASO said. Article content 'The discovery of an outbreak of contagious nodular dermatitis (lumpy skin) affecting cattle in a herd located specifically in the Col des Saisies necessitated the culling of the animals,' ASO said in a statement. 'Given the consternation of the breeders concerned, and in order to maintain the calm of the race, it was decided, in agreement with the authorities, to modify the route of the 19th stage and not to cross the Col des Saisies.' Article content The start time of the stage was pushed back by one hour to 2:30 p.m. local time (1230 GMT), with an expected finishing time of around 5:30 p.m. Article content Three-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogačar of Slovenia led overall heading into the stage, with two-time champion Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark 4 minutes, 26 seconds behind him in second place. Article content Stage 19 represented Vingegaard's last realistic chance of overtaking Pogačar and taking the yellow jersey, with the race finishing on Sunday. Article content
The Guardian
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Giro d'Italia: battle for overall title in mountains on stage 20
Update: Date: 2025-05-31T09:31:00.000Z Title: For anyone Content: in need of a catchup on the race situation, here is the report from stage 19: Update: Date: 2025-05-31T09:26:41.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Today has to be the day if either Richard Carapaz or Simon Yates want to deny Isaac del Toro the pink jersey. The stage itself is a monster, with 4500m of altitude gain spread over 205km, culminating in the climb of the Colle delle Finestre – a mountain that has claimed some souls in the Giro before. Yates cracked here in 2018 when Chris Froome staged his stunning comeback to win the pink jersey. For the sake of entertainment, such a turnaround, or at least an attempt at one would be welcome. Carapaz is perhaps most likely, given he gave it a go yesterday but Del Toro has looked strong. For Yates how fitting would it be to come back to the climb that saw him suffer his career lowpoint and earn redemption? With three climbs to tackle there is plenty of scope for action from early in the stage, perhaps even the Corio the category four pitch up at 69m in.
