Stage guide: flat, 156.8km stage beginning and ending in Toulouse
Tour resumes after rest day with Ireland's Ben Healy in yellow jersey
Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar handed reprieve after late crash
Jonas Abrahamsen holds off Mathieu van der Poel to claim first stage win
Healy still leads Pogacar by 29 seconds; general classification standings
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Ineos Grenadiers have not had much to shout about so far on this year's Tour but Thymen Arensman crossed the line second in stage two.
Now could Axel Laurance get on the podium, or even get a stage win?
Ineos have just told the 24-year-old French rider that the winner will come from the two groups I listed below.
"Be smart, be tough and trust your instincts," they said on the team radio. "You can win this stage!"
Image source, ReutersThe long-term leaders are:
They now have a 20-second lead over:
Who do you fancy out of that little lot?
British rider Lewis Askey has helped the peloton trim the gap to the leaders by 10 seconds.
But there are no general classification contenders in the two lead groups (containing 10 riders in total).
Mathieu van der Poel may have won the yellow jersey earlier in the Tour but he's now 30th overall, almost 30 minutes off the lead.
Image source, EPAWell like Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard also got his hair trimmed yesterday.
"I had a good rest day," he said. "We went for a ride, had a coffee, then I had a small haircut.
"One of the mechanics, he's in to cutting beards so I said 'well, you can also do haircuts', so he trimmed the sides. Then I just relaxed, had a massage."
I mean, they call it a rest day, but the riders still get out on their bike. And spare a thought for Tadej Pogacar. The reigning champion wasn't even able to get a lie-in.
He said earlier: "The cleaning lady actually woke us up, she was quite early. Then a nice breakfast, an easy ride, a nice lunch, coffee shop on the easy ride also, haircut done, massage, then some meetings, saw my family, dinner. It was a pretty good day. In the end I was also quite tired, on a rest day, but it was in a good way."
Image source, EPAJust two categorised climbs to come now, in what promises to be a tough finish.
Jonathan Milan, Tim Merlier and Lenny Martinez are part of a 50-man group that has dropped from the bunch.
The chasing group features:
Bahrain Victorious' Fred Wright also leads the way over the Cote de Corronsac to grab another mountain point.
The chasers are 25 behind at the summit while the peloton trails by two minutes 30 seconds.
British rider Fred Wright is first over the top of the Cote de Montgiscard to take the single King of the Mountains point on offer, with the chase group having closed the gap to 27 seconds.
We could have the fastest Tour stage ever today.
The breakaway has averaged about 50 km/h in the first two hours.
The chase group is 40 seconds back with Israel-Premier Tech at the front of the bunch, which is two minutes and 30 seconds off the lead.
It'll be interesting to see the reaction later to riders attacking while the GC favourites were taking a comfort break earlier.
XDS Astana said on their team radio: "There's no rules anymore."
Decathlon-AG2R La Mondiale added: "It's a crazy stage guys, stay focused."
As for Soudal Quick-Step: "The Tour has no mercy for anybody."
The lead group are coming up to the day's only intermediate sprint at Labastide-Beauvoir. Jonas Abrahamsen takes maximum points, with Quinn Simmons leading the chase group 50 seconds back:
The points leader Jonathan Milan crossed ahead of Biniam Girmay, his main rival for the green jersey.
Now then, Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Vingegaard have joined the Van Aert group - 65 seconds behind the leaders - and the new race leader Ben Healy has gone with them too.
Remco Evenepoel and Tadej Pogacar are alert to the danger and have also reacted to bridge the gap.
Image source, EPA
Image source, ReutersWout van Aert, Matteo Trentin, Dylan Groenewegen and Arnaud de Lie get back to Quentin Pacher, Clement Russo and Gianni Vermeersech.
They are one minute 25 seconds off the lead group.
A bunch of riders have upped the pace while others have been taking a comfort break, including Tadej Pogacar.
Breaking one of cycling's unwritten rules that. The gloves are off!!
Clement Russo, Quentin Pacher and Gianni Vermeersch are ahead of that bunch, targeting the five-man breakaway.
Ben Healy may have been wanting a breakaway, but he and his EF Education-EasyPost team-mates are not part of it.
If they ease home with the main GC contenders then that should be enough to secure another day in the yellow jersey.
Fred Wright and Mathieu Burgaudeau have joined the lead trio.
The gap to the bunch is now up to 75 seconds. Will that be enough to establish a breakaway finish?
Jonas Vingegaard before today's stage: "It will be a very explosive final. We saw the last two climbs of the stage and it will be a hard final.
"To be honest, we feel like it could go both ways. It could either be a breakaway or a reduced bunch sprint, or even a GC fight, depending on the day. It will be interesting to see what the other teams want to do as well."
On Pogacar being 'annoyed': "He's such a good rider that you need to do something to try to attack him. We just want to keep fighting, keep attacking. That's how we race and they can race how they want to race."
Image source, EPATadej Pogacar said after stage 10 that Jonas Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike team were "a bit annoying with all the attacks, so I decided to make a better attack".
Visma's Sepp Kuss and Matteo Jorgenson tried to put the pressure on Pogacar, before the UAE Team Emirates-XRG star crossed the finish line fractionally before Vingegaard and his team-mates.
Image source, Reuters