Tour de France – 7th stage live in the ticker today: breakaways and sprinters in action with Cavendish and Bauhaus

Nevertheless, the Danish title-holder took the yellow jersey, even if his advantage has melted to 25 seconds.

16:25 – Guglielmi falls behind

Simone Guglielmi has to let his two companions go. Latour and Peters are now climbing up to the Category 4 Mountain Prize, one minute ahead of the pack.

16:17 – Cavendish and van der Poel back in the field

It took almost ten kilometers for Cavendish to get back into the main field in a convoy. Shortly after him, Mathieu van der Poel also had a defect. He’s back now too.

4:10pm – 3km rule extended to 3.6km today

Because today’s stage final in Bordeaux is very curvy between the 4 and 2 km mark, the jury extended the 3 km rule to 3.6 km from the finish at the suggestion of the riders. So if you have a defect in the last 3,600 meters or fall or are held up by something similar, you still get the time of the group you were in at that point in time.

16:05 – 56 km to go: breakdown at Cavendish

Mark Cavendish falls back to the back of the field and raises his hand. Three teammates are with him and the British sprint legend pulls up to the side of the road. tire damage. It takes a few seconds, but then ‘Cav’ is back in the convoy. It’s not really a problem, but just a few kilometers ago the peloton accelerated. It will be much more difficult to come back quickly than it was 20 kilometers ago.

3:55pm – One minute for the trio but it’s going to be windy soon

The field loosens up a bit and the lead of Guglielmi, Latour and Peters increases to one minute. But the trio will probably not be given too much more. Because in 25 kilometers the ascent to the mountain prize in the 4th category begins, and from the summit there is a ‘back edge’, i.e. cross wind from diagonally behind, on the open road. Things could get exciting there in terms of wind relays and the peloton should soon automatically accelerate in the battle for positions.

3:47 p.m. – Three men in the lead

Pierre Latour and Nans Peters catch up to Simone Guglielmi with 73km to go and we have a trio of breakaways. But: The peloton didn’t slow down after the sprint and is now only 25 seconds behind the leaders!

3:42 p.m. – Latour and Peters break away

Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) and Nans Peters (AG2R – Citroen) now want to bridge the reduced gap to the front runners, so that they can still be part of the breakaway group with a delay of 90 kilometers.

15:37 – Girmay takes the 17 points behind Guglielmi

Biniam Girmay won the battle for points for second place in the intermediate sprint – ahead of Jasper Philipsen and Bryan Coquard. Due to the acceleration of the peloton on the way to the sprint, the gap to the front has suddenly shrunk to 40 seconds.

3:30pm – 5km to intermediate sprint

Guglielmi still has 2:20 minutes – but the peloton will soon accelerate when it approaches Grignols, where the intermediate sprint is waiting. There it is still about 17 points for the fight for the green jersey for the sprinters.

15:19 – 2:40 minutes for Guglielmi

The lead of Frenchman Simone Guglielmi (Arkéa – Samsic) is slowly shrinking. Currently there are still 2:40 minutes on the clock with 93 kilometers to go. Incidentally, Mark Cavendish’s Team Astana Qazaqstan at the front of the peloton is now getting a little involved.

3:07 p.m. – 14 km/h – that’s not enough for the edge

There are still 100 kilometers to go and even if we are now driving north-east and the wind is blowing from the right rear: it is too weak to do anything. We also move a lot through wooded terrain.

2:53 p.m. – The wind could play a role today

It is currently dead straight in a northwesterly direction – with a tailwind from the southeast. But in eight kilometers the peloton turns right and then we have a cross wind. Is there one of the teams trying a wind edge action?

2:45 p.m. – The race is (still) splashing along

There are still 117 kilometers to go and thus 35 to the intermediate sprint in Grignols. The peloton has everything under control, Guglielmi is still 3:45 minutes ahead.

2:30 p.m. – Alpecin and Lotto set the pace

So far, the teams of Jasper Philipsen and Caleb Ewan have been the leaders in the main field: the dark blue from Alpecin-Deceuninck and the red with light blue from Lotto – Dstny determine the picture. The peloton is 4:00 minutes behind solo leader Guglielmi.

14:16 – Guglielmi is losing ground

The peloton gave Simone Guglielmi up to seven minutes. In the meantime, however, the rear is also driven faster and with 135 kilometers to go there are only 4:35 minutes on the clock for the soloist.

1:58 p.m. – “The bar is open”

The information from the sports directors comes over the radio: “The bar is open!” From now on, the drivers can be fed by the escort vehicles.

1:45 p.m. – 5 minutes after 15 kilometers

You could now play a little competition: How far can the sprinter teams let the 26-year-old Frenchman Guglielmi go? He is 120th in the overall standings, 1 hour, 22 minutes and 4 seconds behind the yellow jersey.

1:38 p.m. – 2:50 minutes for Guglielmi

Ten kilometers have been driven and the peloton is in a chatting mood. Guglielmi at the front has a lead of almost three minutes.

1:33 p.m. – And there it is only one soloist

At TotalEnergies, too, the team management probably doesn’t like the fact that their man is at the front of such a small and therefore hopeless group: Burgaudeau radios and then says goodbye to Guglielmi to let himself fall back into the peloton. So only the Arkéa driver is the outlier of the day today. Back in the field, Burgaudeau tells Eurosport motorcycle reporter Philippe Gilbert: “I wanted to, but I wasn’t allowed to.”

1:28 p.m. – A duo for the day

Four men drove away first, but only two really want to drive in front of the field all day. Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X) and Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) paid attention and jumped with them. But when they realized that there would only be four of them, they both dropped back into the peloton. The breakaway duo of the day will therefore consist of Simon Guglielmi (Arkéa – Samsic) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies).

1:25 p.m. – Start free!

Kilometer 0 has passed and four riders break away. Behind them in the main field, the sprinter teams immediately drive in the full width of the street, so that no other attacker can get through. locked down! So the group of the day is probably already after just one kilometer.

1:20 p.m. – Flat across the country

From Mont-de-Marsan to Bordeaux it will remain very flat today – only a 4th category mountain prize awaits 39 kilometers from the finish, but even that only overcomes around 75 meters in altitude. Everything points to a bunch sprint.

1:15 p.m. – C’est partiii!

The peloton starts moving in Mont-de-Marsan and the 7th stage begins – albeit initially neutralized. It’s 5.4 kilometers, which is rolled behind the red car of the race management, until tour boss Christian Prudhomme lowers the starting flag at KM 0.

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