153km : The gap stabilizes a little above 3 minutes between the breakaway and the peloton, which therefore does not want to give them any more of a lead.
159km: The three leading runners, Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies), Mâtis Louvel (Arkéa-Samsic) and Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost) still take a little lead, the peloton now has a lead of nearly 3 minutes.
166km : The first small difficulty, listed in category 4, arrives in about fifteen kilometers.
169km : The breakaways are 1’43 ahead of the peloton which is driving quietly, at about thirty km/h.
170km : In the general classification, the French Matîs Louvel is the best placed but he is more than an hour behind the yellow jersey.
173km : Note that it is 26 degrees, 10 less than yesterday. Something to breathe a little for the runners.
174km: Tony Galopin dropped out, but the Italian Daniel Oss joined Louvel and Amador, they now have a lead of around thirty seconds over the peloton!
176km : Tony Galopin and Matîs Louvel join Andrey Amador up front, but Philipsen’s teammates accelerate to avoid the breakaway.
178km: The Costa Rican Andrey Amador has taken a few meters ahead of the peloton, but he is not attacking for all that.
178km: Let’s go for this 11th stage, the start is given!
1:26 p.m. : Kilometer zero is postponed, a runner was dropped in the 10 km leading to the fictitious starting line
The wind is blowing and there are quite a few roundabouts in the last kilometers of this stage. Runners have been warned.
It is clearly promised to sprinters, for the first finish in history at Moulins. We can imagine Jasper Philipsen winning after being launched once again by Mathieu Van der Poel.
We are in place to follow this 11th stage between Clermont Ferrand and Moulins, a stage promised to the sprinter since there are only a few slight difficulties in these 179.8 km
This July 12 is a great day. Not because it’s the 25th anniversary of France’s first victory in a football World Cup, but because Moulins is going to host a stage of the Tour for the first time. A 120-year-old “oblivion” has been repaired: it was the only metropolitan prefecture never to have hosted the Grande Boucle. Back to sport: with a last straight line of 1,300 meters, the capital of Allier should attend a mass sprint. Suffice to say that Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin – Deceuninck) will start as favorite to win his fourth stage of this edition, especially since the eternal Mark Cavendish had to give up on Saturday, after a fall between Libourne and Limoges.
>> Meet around 1:25 p.m. for the real start of the stage