Stage 19 of the Tour de France
The final mountain stage of this year's race from Albertville to La Plagne
Tadej Pogacar leads Jonas Vingegaard by four minutes 26 seconds
Britain's Oscar Onley starts 22 seconds behind Florian Lipowitz in final podium place
Stage cut from 130km to 95km because of a herd of diseased cattle on Col des Saisies
Race ends in Paris on Sunday
13km to go
Thymen Arensman is up at the front with Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, but almost just waiting for the race's two heavyweights to go again and leave him behind.
Arensman goes first and does get a slight gap as Pogacar and Vingegaard watch each other closely.
14km to go
Tadej Pogacar makes his move and only Jonas Vingegaard follows!
The main two will do battle on the final mountain finish of this year's race.
Oscar Onley resists following, with podium rival Florian Lipowitz on his wheel.
Image source, Getty ImagesWhat a performance it was by Britain's Oscar Onley yesterday.
At only his second Tour de France, the 22-year-old followed Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard up to the highest point in this year's race.
Stage winner Ben O'Connor aside, he was the only rider in the race who could live with the Tour's two heavyweights - despite initially being dropped by the group of favourites on the penultimate climb.
That display meant he started today's stage just 22 seconds off the general classification podium - having taken one minute 39 seconds back on Florian Lipowitz.
Given how much the third-placed German struggled towards the end yesterday, Onley will be confident of hurting Lipowitz on La Plagne in pursuit of a top-three finish in Paris.
19km to go
Here we go then. The final high mountain of this year's Tour begins.
Ahead are 19.1km at an average gradient of 7.2%, taking the riders more than 2,000m above sea level.
Team UAE Emirates-XRG are setting the pace at the start of the climb and it's looking as though Tadej Pogacar fancies a stage win today.
Image source, Getty Images21km to go
Primoz Roglic's outing is over. The peloton has arrived at the front of the race, powered on by Tim Wellens, as La Plagne approaches.
Will we get a big GC showdown? Jonas Vingegaard will surely want to give this one more shot.
29km to go
Here comes the rain!
It's been a dry stage so far but, as the riders sweep towards La Plagne, it is now absolutely chucking it down. A few reach for their jackets, others grimace and squint their eyes to see through the spray.
Primoz Roglic's lead is down to 30 seconds and his time at the front of the race appears limited.
33km to go
Primoz Roglic has around 20 seconds on Valentin Paret-Peintre, who has dropped Lenny Martinez on the descent.
But the peloton remains within one minute of the front of the race - and Roglic still has more than 10km of riding ahead of him before he reaches the foot of La Plagne.
Image source, Getty Images41km to go
This descending from Primoz Roglic is a mesmerising watch. He has again broken free at the front of the race and is gliding down the mountainside towards La Plagne.
The Slovenian has a minute on the podium and already put 10 seconds into Valentin Paret-Peintre and Lenny Martinez.
Lenny Martinez refuses to give up on his pursuit of these king of the mountains points and digs deep to catch Primoz Roglic and Valentin Paret-Peintre inside the final kilometre.
He grits his teeth as he gets back onto the wheel, and then sweeps by unchallenged, to take the five points on offer.
That brings him within eight points of Tadej Pogacar - the exact total he was deducted yesterday for receiving assistance from his team car up a climb. A costly error of judgement.
There are 20 points on offer at the finish on La Plagne.
Image source, Getty Images53km to go
The leaders catch wind of the fast-approaching peloton and Primoz Roglic and Valentin Paret-Peintre burst off the front, leaving behind Lenny Martinez with 1.5km to go to the top of this category two climb.
It keeps the peloton at around 30 seconds behind.
55km to go
It doesn't look as though Lenny Martinez, Primoz Roglic and Valentin Paret-Peintre will be allowed to make it over the Cormet de Roselend unchallenged, however!
The peloton are rapidly closing in as Tobias Johannessen's Uno-X Mobility team-mate Andreas Leknessund drives the pace to capitalise on Kevin Vauquelin's struggles today.
Johannessen is in eighth overall, more than two minutes behind seventh-placed Vauquelin, but they can sense an opportunity to gain a place here.
So many individual battles going on. The peloton is within 30 seconds of the front of the race, and Vauquelin is almost a minute further back.
58km to go
Those 20 points take Lenny Martinez back above Jonas Vingegaard in the battle for the polka-dot jersey, and within 13 points of leader Tadej Pogacar.
There are five more available on the Cormet de Roselend, as the riders make their way past the spectacular Roselend dam.
Image source, Getty Images61km to go
Valentin Paret-Peintre, winner on Mount Ventoux earlier this week, works his way back to leaders Primoz Roglic and Lenny Martinez as we approach the top of the hors categorie Col du Pre.
It's Martinez who takes the maximum 20 points he needs in the king of the mountains competition, followed by Roglic and then Paret-Peintre.
A chasing group of four riders sweep up the other points, with Tim Wellens taking a couple at the head of the peloton, almost a minute behind the front of the race.
Image source, Getty ImagesHere's a reminder of how the general classification looks with three stages of this year's race left:
67km to go
Primoz Roglic looks to be on a great day! He and Lenny Martinez break free from the front group and quickly open up an advantage - they have around 45 seconds on the peloton and that lead is only increasing.
Roglic is looking to shake up the general classification standings, while Martinez will hope to put himself back into the polka-dot jersey conversation.
They're a dangerous pairing - and they have three kilometres to the summit.
68km to go
Primoz Roglic is followed only by Bruno Amirail, Valentin Paret-Peintre, Einer Rubio and Lenny Martinez for the time being.
Roglic is one minute and 26 seconds behind fourth-placed Briton Oscar Onley in the general classification standings. It remains to be seen how his team-mate, Florian Lipowitz, is feeling and what tactics Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe will settle on.
70km to go
A few early moves on the Col du Pre are successfully shut down by the peloton and the race briefly comes back together again, before Primoz Roglic launches another attack with seven kilometres of this climb still to come.
Roglic was very active yesterday and looks to be hitting form in this final week. Team-mate Florian Lipowitz has a podium place to defend, but Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe will be keen for a stage win if the opportunity presents itself.
Tadej Pogacar took a huge step towards winning his fourth Tour de France by racing clear of rival Jonas Vingegaard on the mighty Col de la Loze, as Ben O'Connor claimed victory on stage 18.
Pogacar, 26, powered clear of his closest rival in the final 500 metres to extend his overall lead over two-time champion Vingegaard to four minutes and 26 seconds with just three stages left.
He crossed the line one minute and 45 seconds behind Australian O'Connor, who went solo with 16km remaining.
Vingegaard was third over the line, followed closely by Britain's Oscar Onley - who is now just 22 seconds behind Florian Lipowitz in the final general classification podium place following an outstanding ride.
The queen stage of this year's race featured three iconic climbs, forcing riders to overcome more than 5,500m of elevation in 171.5km of racing.
Image source, Getty Images75km to go
The riders have barely warmed up on today's shortened stage but they're already on to the first climb of the day.
A 12.6km climb, at an average gradient of 7.7%. The Col du Pre is a bit of a beast.
Anyone still hurting from yesterday is in for a tough day, beginning with this climb to 1,748m above sea level.
Image source, Getty Images77km to go
Team Lidl-Trek safely escort Jonathan Milan to the maximum 20 points in the green jersey competition.
That moves him almost 100 points clear now of Tadej Pogacar in that competition.
Biniam Girmay and Anthony Turgis follow the Italian over the line to pick up 17 and 15 points respectively, while Jonas Abrahamsen uses that sprint as a catapult to go on the offensive.