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Stage six guide: Hilly 201.5km route from Bayeux to Vire Normandie
Mathieu van der Poel regains yellow jersey from reigning champion Tadej Pogacar
Image source, EPAThat's it from today's stage, which saw a stunning solo victory by Ben Healy.
After spending most of the day in an eight-man breakaway, the 24-year-old Irishman attacked with about 42km remaining to claim the first Tour de France stage win of his career.
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Stage winner Ben Healy added: "I switched on from the start. Maybe I spent a bit too much [energy] to try to get into the break but that's the way I do it. Once I was in there we really had to work for that gap and we were on the pedals all day.
"I knew I needed to get away from the group and picked my moment. I think I timed it well and hopefully caught them by surprise a bit. And then I knew what I had to do: just head down and do my best right to the finish.
"This stage suited me down to the ground. It was one I circled from the start and to do it feels amazing.
"I grew up watching the Tour, one day wishing I could maybe be there, and to even be here is an achievement. Now to win a stage is so amazing."
Stage winner Ben Healy, who finished 27th on his Tour debut last year: "It's unbelievable, it's really what I've worked for, not just this year but the whole time.
"It's really incredible and [down to] hours and hours of hard work by so many people. To pay them back today is really amazing.
"Last year was a real eye-opener and it really made me believe that I could do it. I just knuckled down and did the hard work. I tried to refine my racing style as well and it really paid off today."
Image source, ReutersBen Healy's EF Education-EasyPost team-mate Kasper Asgreen: "He really had a plan today, you could see it straight off the [team] bus.
"He made every move from the gun and he took off with 45km to go and just extended it on his own.
"It was really a pleasure listening to [sporting director] Tom Southam in the car behind and hearing Ben crush it.
"They were trying to find a good spot to make that move, where it maybe wouldn't be so expected but still be very effective."
Image source, ReutersTadej Pogacar crosses five minutes 26 seconds after Ben Healy, so Mathieu van der Poel will regain the race leader's yellow jersey by just one second.
Tadej Pogacar is first over the line from the peloton, with Jonas Vingegaard right behind him.
Matteo Jorgenson leads the way for Visma-Lease a Bike, Tadej Pogacar responds.
Now for the main GC contenders...
Harold Tejada makes the first move on the climb to the finish, but Quinn Simmons responds to claim second place with ease.
Eddie Dunbar comes through shortly after to make it two Irishmen in the first four today. What a day for the Irish!!
Mathieu van der Poel and Harold Tejada have been dropped from the chase group, with Michael Storer and Quinn Simmons set to battle it out for the bonus seconds.
Ben Healy powers up the final climb to cap a wonderful day by clinching the first Tour de France stage win of his career.
The 24-year-old Irishman has produced a stunning solo attack to win stage six while Mathieu van der Poel will regain the leader's yellow jersey.
Ben Healy adds another mountain point to his tally on the Cote de Vaudry.
What a day it's been for the 24-year-old Irishman. He's even closing in on the white jersey for best young rider too.
Double Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel currently has it.
Ben Healy is on to the penultimate hill of the day, and the last categorised climb.
Ben Healy has been named the most aggressive rider of the day.
He was in with a shout even before he launched this solo attack.
It looks like the Irishman will claim a first-ever stage win on the Tour too.
He's almost two minutes clear, with the peloton nearly seven minutes back.
The gap from Ben Healy to Quinn Simmons and Michael Storer is up to one minute 20 seconds.
This would be the 12th Tour stage win for EF Education-Easypost, with the most recent coming last year from Richard Carapaz on stage 17.
Can Ben Healy maintain his lead over this frantic finish to stage six?
It is a similarly punchy finale to that for stage four, with a category four ascent up the Cote de Vaudry before an uncategorised climb to the line.
Image source, ASO
Image source, Getty ImagesBen Healy is now in time-trial mode as he hopes to claim Ireland's 15th Tour stage win.
The first came from Seamus Elliott in Roubaix in 1963 and the most recent was Sam Bennett to close the 2020 edition on the Champs-Elysees.
Ben Healy leads by 47 seconds at the start of the Cote de Saint-Michel-de-Montjoie climb so takes the two points, with Michael Storer next up for the other point.