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Belgium's Victor Campenaerts emerged from a breakaway trio to clinch victory on stage 18
Nicolas Prodhomme and Ilan van Wilder are both dropped from the breakaway.
Just six remain in the front group. They are:
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Image source, Getty ImagesWith news of UAE Team Emirates putting on the power in the peloton, Team Visma Lease a Bike duo Matteo Jorgensen and Wilco Kelderman have increased the pace in the breakaway.
Are they trying to delay the catch for the final climb? Or simply going for the stage and hoping to thin things out? Dangerman Richard Carapaz is shadowing the pair. The gap between the breakaway and peloton remains at four minutes.
Britain's Oscar Onley has been dropped from the leading group. He just couldn't hold the ferocious pace on the Cime de la Bonette.
Eight remain in the breakaway, including Simon Yates.
We're about a quarter of the way up the climb. It's steep, very steep. Like Holme Moss this.
UAE Team Emirates are turning the screw. Marc Soler has parked himself on the front of the peloton and is letting it rip.
Michal Kwiatkowski, Wout van Aert, Johannes Kulset and Jonas Abrahamsen are all dropped. Here we go, things are starting to get spicy.
Image source, Getty ImagesWe're on the Cime de la Bonette, the longest climb at this year's tour.
Interestingly Team Visma Lease a Bike have two in the breakaway - Matteo Jorgensen and Wilco Kelderman.
I don't think either will go for the stage win though, I reckon they're up front to give team leader Jonas Vingegaard more tactical options.
Is a possible attack to bridge across to the pair and isolate Tadej Pogacar on the cards for the Dane?
So where we at?
Well we've done one of our three big climbs today and are currently in the valley having descended Col de Vars and are pedalling towards the base of Cime de la Bonette - which will have us climbing 2218 metres.
Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard are taking it easy in the peloton so far, four minutes and 17 seconds back from the breakaway.
In that front group are:
Biniam Girmay is already in a groupetto along with fellow sprinter Alexander Kristoff.
Also at the back is Ireland's Ben Healy, a bit of a surprise. The climber would have targeted this stage at the start of the tour, but I reckon he's probably exhausted after some long breaks over the past week.
The three of them are in a smallish group eight minutes down.
Green jersey rivals Biniam Girmay and Jasper Philipsen marked each other out in today's early intermediate sprint.
Because of that, I'm pretty sure I can safely say that if Eritrea's Girmay finishes the tour he will become the first black African to win the Green Jersey.
That's because main rival Jasper Philipsen - who won the jersey last year - trails him by 33 points, with only a few more chances to close the gap.
Tomorrow there's another intermediate sprint (with a maximum of 20 points on offer) but that's miles after a few mountains.
And of course there are points for winning the final three stages but again sprinter Philipsen won't be challenging.
And we're off!
Sorry for not being online sooner, although we've thankfully skipped out a long flat before our very first climb which we're just on to now.
There's nine riders in the breakaway with two Britons - Team Jayco AlUla's Simon Yates and Team dsm-firmenich PostNL's Oscar Onley.
Some other notable names upfront include Jai Hindley, Wilco Kelderman and Richard Carapaz.
Three days, three stages, three minutes and eleven seconds.
Tadej Pocagar holds a healthy lead over defending champion Jonas Vingegaard. The Dane has three more chances to eat into his lead, starting with an epic mountain stage today.
If he loses time, I think he's had it. Pogacar looks unbeatable, I can't see him losing chunks on just one stage.
Stage 19
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Image source, ASOJoe here for the final three stages of the 111th Tour de France.
Many thanks to my domestiques Poole, Sutcliffe, Collins, Henry and Warwick for their superb efforts this tour. I've got to finish off their hard work with one big push over the last weekend.
There's an open road ahead, although there's still plenty of chances to bonk, mess up a time trial, or even crash into a motorbike.
Allez Allez Allez. Let's do this.
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