Simon Yates continues to set the pace for Visma-Lease a Bike and Jonas Vingegaard, as team-mate Matteo Jorgenson comes into view up the road.

Ben O'Connor and Einer Rubio are still holding their advantage at around three minutes to the main group, and Florian Lipowitz is not making any progress on the leaders now.

Oh, and here goes O'Connor with more than 15km of climbing still to go! A big attack and Rubio can't respond.

Into the final 20km we go!

The gradient for leaders Ben O'Connor and Einer Rubio Reyes is around 7% at the moment, and they have a 90-second lead over Florian Lipowitz and Matteo Jorgenson.

Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard's group is three minutes off the front on this spectacular climb.

Britain's Oscar Onley is among that yellow jersey group as he looks to keep hold of fourth place in the general classification, under pressure from Primoz Roglic today.

Florian Lipowitz is stuck at around one minute behind the front of the race, meaning he has a cushion of around three minutes over Onley in the virtual standings in the battle for a podium place.

Matteo Jorgenson has now been given the call to drop back and wait to pick up the yellow jersey group.

It's Visma-Lease a Bike team-mate Simon Yates on the front of that group of 15.

Matteo Jorgenson, Ben O'Connor and Einer Rubio Reyes are being hunted down by Florian Lipowitz now.

About three-and-a-half minutes behind, the yellow jersey group has been caught and absorbed into a group of 16 riders - including Tadej Pogacar's team-mates Adam Yates, Marc Soler and Jhonatan Narvaez.

Jonas Vingegaard, meanwhile, is reunited with Sepp Kuss and Simon Yates. He still has Matteo Jorgenson up the road, too.

We've reset, ready to go again on the big one...

• Category HC
• 26.4km
• 6.5% average gradient
• 2,304m above sea level

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Felix Gall, who triumphed on Col de la Loze in 2023, attacks but Jonas Vingegaard shuts that move down.

There is potential trouble looming for Vingegaard now as Oscar Onley's group, which features three UAE Team Emirates riders who could offer support to Tadej Pogacar, little over a minute behind the yellow jersey group.

Could that force his hand earlier than he planned?

From being cut adrift, Florian Lipowitz attacks the yellow jersey group!

In third place overall, with a two-minute lead over Britain's Oscar Onley before today's stage but almost five minutes behind Jonas Vingegaard, Lipowitz has managed to get clear in pursuit of the leaders.

Matteo Jorgenson, Ben O'Connor and Einer Rubio Reyes have an advantage of around one minute and 25 seconds on the yellow jersey group as the start of the Col de la Loze climb draws into view.

Now we wait to see how long it takes for Jonas Vingegaard to launch his next attack.

The action at the front kicks off again!

Ben O'Connor and Einer Rubio Reyes attack, and Matteo Jorgenson follows - meaning Jonas Vingegaard once again has a man up the road.

Meanwhile, Florian Lipowitz has done superbly well to rejoin the front group, as has Thymen Arensman.

The leaders have made it down into the valley, and the road to the Col de la Loze begins!

They have about 15km of riding to go until they reach the start of the final ascent of the day, the 2,304m up to the finish line.

Seven remain at the front, including Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard. Fireworks incoming.

A brief check in from Tadej Pogacar on the team radio, as he tells his director that Matteo Jorgenson is going "full gas".

The American is absolutely tearing down the mountainside in attempting to keep the pressure on the race leader.

But more than anything, Pogacar just sounds as though he's really enjoying himself.

Britain's Oscar Onley went over the top of the Col de la Madeleine more than two minutes behind the leaders.

The good news for Onley is that Florian Lipowitz, the man ahead of him in third overall, is losing time on the descent and is around a minute down on the front.

The pace at the front on this descent is frightening.

Lenny Martinez took the maximum points on the Col du Glandon but Tadej Pogacar is now back within five points of the polka-dot jersey - with 40 points on offer on the Col de la Loze.

• Lenny Martinez - 80 points
• Tadej Pogacar - 75 points
• Thymen Arensman - 65 points
• Jonas Vingegaard - 65 points

Jonas Vingegaard takes the full 20 king of the mountains points at the summit, followed by Tadej Pogacar who continues through the line to assert himself at the front on the descent.

Florian Lipowitz is time-trialling his way solo to the top of the Col de la Madeleine, left alone on the mountainside as Matteo Jorgenson continues to push the pace for Jonas Vingegaard.

Jorgenson, Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar are joined by Primoz Roglic, Felix Gall, Ben O'Connor and Einer Augusto Rubio Reyes at the head of the race as we approach the second major summit of the day.

In the blink of an eye, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar sweep across to the front of the race.

There, Vingeagaard is reunited with team-mate Matteo Jorgenson. But Pogacar is isolated and is soon on his team radio seeking updates.

Primoz Roglic remains in this group, with Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe team-mate Florian Lipowitz - who started the day on the podium - beginning to fade behind. Will he be called back, or encouraged to go for this?

Here. We. Go.

Jonas Vingegaard makes his first big move and now it is just the big two contenders together - still with 4.5km to go on the Col de la Madeleine, and with the mighty Col de la Loze still to come.

This is set up to be an epic 70km showdown.

Visma-Lease a Bike have isolated Tadej Pogacar!

The leader's UAE Team Emirates support dissipates as Sepp Kuss takes charge for Jonas Vingegaard and drives his team-mate forward on with more than five kilometres still to go up this climb.

Vimsa-Lease a Bike really are stepping this up now.

A huge turn by Victor Campenaerts has whittled the main group down to 11 riders - and slashed the gap to the front of the race to just one minute. Incredible effort.

Roglic, Jorgenson, Arensman, Gall, O'Connor and Rubio Reyes are the six riders at the front and now within six kilometres of the summit on the Col de la Madeleine.