Summary

  • Follow live text coverage of the Tour de France

  • Stage 10: Orleans to Saint-Amand-Montrond

  • Tuesday's flat 187.3km route seems suited to a sprint finish

  • Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar wears the leader's yellow jersey

  • The race concludes in Nice on Sunday 21 July

  1. Postpublished at 17:35 British Summer Time 9 July

    You can read our report on stage 10 here.

    We will be back at around 10:30 BST on Wednesday for six categorised climbs and potentially more GC action involving Tadej Pogacar, Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard.

  2. 'It is a big relief'published at 17:22 British Summer Time 9 July

    Jasper Philipsen, was 96 points behind Biniam Girmay in the points classification this morning. He has managed to cut that down to 74 this evening.

    The Belgian has had a few near misses this Tour, after winning four stages 12 months, ago. Here is what he thinks of being back on the podium at the end of stage:

    “Last week was not a great week, it was an endless week for us. We had some bad luck. I am really happy it is a big relief. We can finally show our strength, with our lead-out train and did finally what we came for.

    "We know the corner was quite tricky but everyone is growing in this Tour. Maybe we didn’t start in the best shape. But we all feel good and healthy and there’s still some nice stages to come.

    "It was a tough week and it was already Stage 10, and we have five sprints without a win. Girmay is doing a very good ride so far, he is very far ahead, I think we just concentrate on the stages.”

  3. Postpublished at 17:07 British Summer Time 9 July

    Stage 11 profileImage source, ASO

    There'll be a couple more days of potential sprint finishes coming up this week but Wednesday is definitely not one of them.

  4. General classification after stage 10published at 16:57 British Summer Time 9 July

    1. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) 40hrs 02mins 48secs

    2. Remco Evenepoel (Bel/Soudal-Quick Step) +33secs

    3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +1min 15secs

    4. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) +1mins 36secs

    5. Juan Ayuso (Spa/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 16secs

    6. Joao Almeida (Por/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 17secs

    7. Carlos Rodriguez (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 31secs

    8. Mikel Landa (Spa/Soudal-Quick Step) +3mins 35secs

    9. Derek Gee (Can/Israel-Premier Tech) +4mins 02secs

    10. Matteo Jorgenson (US/Visma-Lease a Bike) 4mins 03secs

  5. Cavendish finishes 18thpublished at 16:57 British Summer Time 9 July

    Mark Cavendish rolled over the line 18th there. He just got caught too far back coming into the final turn and could not work himself back into contention.

  6. Stage 10 resultspublished at 16:55 British Summer Time 9 July

    1. Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4hrs 20mins 06secs

    2. Biniam Girmay (Eri/Intermarche-Wanty) Same time

    3. Pascal Ackermann (Ger/Israel-Premier Tech) "

    4. Wout van Aert (Bel/Visma-Lease a Bike) "

    5. Fernando Gaviria (Col/Movistar) "

    6. Sam Bennett (Ire/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) "

    7. John Degenkolb (Ger/DSM-firmenich PostNL) "

    8.Phil Bauhaus (Ger/Bahrain Victorious) "

    9. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned/Team Jayco-AlUla) "

    10. Axel Zingle (Fra/Cofidis) "

  7. Postpublished at 16:50 British Summer Time 9 July

    That was some sprint from Jasper Philipsen although it has to be said, Mathieu van der Poel's assistance completely made that possible.

  8. Philipsen wins stage 10published at 16:47 British Summer Time 9 July

    Jasper Philipsen takes victory on stage 10, comfortably.

  9. Postpublished at 200m to go

    Jasper Philipsen is flying up the right side of the road...Biniam Girmay gives chase.

  10. Postpublished at 500m to go

    Mathieu van der Poel powers to the front...Jasper Philipsen is waiting to launch.

  11. Postpublished at 1km to go

    Is Mark Cavendish too far back? Wout van Aert is on the move...

  12. Postpublished at 2km to go

    Michael Morkov spins out right to look for Mark Cavendish...

  13. Postpublished at 3km to go

    Neilson Powless is taking it up for EF Education-EasyPost. He has Stefan Bissegger with him.

  14. Cavendish well positionedpublished at 4km to go

    Mark Cavendish is well placed with three team-mates in front of him.

  15. Postpublished at 5km to go

    Alpecin-Deceuninck hit the front. They are not leaving anything to chance today.

  16. Postpublished at 7km to go

    Right here we go. The pace ratchets up above 50 and then 60km/h for the first time today.

  17. Postpublished at 8km to go

    The peloton is hardly hurtling along. They are riding at just over 40km/h but there is a long sweeping descent coming up towards the finishing line...

  18. Postpublished at 10km to go

    The last slight ramp in the road coming up now. Will anyone try anything here. Alberto Bettiol edges up towards the front.

  19. Postpublished at 12km to go

    Astana Qazaqstan are keeping themselves right in the thick of things, up on the right side of the road alongside a train of Lidl-Trek riders.

    Visma-Lease a Bike are holding a line down the left.

  20. Postpublished at 15km to go

    The incoming sprint could be frantic given nobody has had to extend themselves at all today. Every team in theory should have a full squad of riders at their disposal.