With the racing settled down for now - here's the time to tell you about our end of Tour awards - The Pelotony's.

Send in your nominations for the various categories and the winners (and losers) will be revealed in BeSpoke's final show in Paris.

Here are a few categories to kick you off:

• Best rider (doesn't have to be the yellow jersey)
• Biggest disappointment
• Best stage
• Worst stage
• The futility jersey (for most attacks in vain)
• The rider not in his own team's WhatsApp group

Plenty more to come, but get cracking on those and let us know your nominations using #bbccycling or send us a text on 81111.

We'll also accept any belting ideas for further categories.

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Sky still on the front of the peloton, Chris Froome nestled in safely.

Up front, that 20-man break are building their advantage up towards the six-minute mark.

Team Sky are setting a relatively gentle pace on the front of the peloton, more than pleased to let the break go clear.

Their big race was yesterday - and yellow jersey Chris Froome paid tribute to his rivals earlier.

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That break is going out to five minutes clear of the peloton, who are clearly happy to let them go.

They'll probably give them 10 minutes and manage it from there.

Here are the 20 riders in the break: Jan Bakelants (AG2R-La Mondiale), Daniele Bennati (Movistar), Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo), Ben Swift (UAE), Rudy Molard (FDJ), Michael Albasini and Jens Keukeleire (Orica), Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data), Gianluca Brambilla (Quick Step), Robert Kiserlovski (Katusha), Thomas De Gendt and Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal), Nikias Arndt (Sunweb), Julien Simon (Cofidis), Lilian Calmejane, Sylvain Chavanel and Romain Sicard (Direct Energie), Elie Gesbert, Romain Hardy and Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fortuneo-Oscaro).

They now have 3'30'' on the peloton, about 1km from the top of the category three Cote de Breizers.

Simon Hawkins: Why wouldn't Bardet or Uran try to get in the breakaway today? Surely their only chance of catching Froome and nothing to lose?

In short, because Team Sky would not let them and would chase them down. The breakaway would also not work with Bardet or Uran, knowing that Sky - and probably other general classification teams - would be chasing hard behind and, on this terrain, would bring them back.

That said - there is a slight chance of crosswinds towards the end of today's stage and if Bardet and Uran's teams can force a split in the wind then they could catch Froome and Sky out. Sky will be very watchful all day, though.

Right, this increasingly looks like a break that could go the distance.

A front group of 20 riders now have an advantage of around two minutes on the peloton.

Britain's Steve Cummings hasn't made it in but Dimension Data team-mate Edvald Boasson Hagen has.

Told you they wouldn't wait for a sprint - but interesting to see Boasson Hagen in the break instead of Cummings.

While we wait for a breakaway to establish, have a gander at The Daily Pain.

The increasingly beardy pair of Rob Hayles and OJ Borg look back at yesterday's decisive stage 18 and look ahead to today's stage 19.

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A large group has now bridges across to Calmejane and Gesbert, now with a lead of nearly 30 seconds.

Looks like Bakelants and Chavanel in there, as usual.

This could be a promising breakaway.

French duo Lilian Calmejane and Elie Gesbert have stolen a bit of a march on the descent and lead by about 10 seconds.

Rob Hayles
Former GB cyclist at the Tour de France

The race tumbles out of the Alps and heads southwards towards the Mediterranean on the longest stage of the race.

Will the sprinters be bold enough to ask their teams to ride for them in the hope of setting up a sprint finish?

Or will everyone be too tired to care and allow a breakaway to succeed? Or will a puncheur use the Col du Pointu to ride clear?

I reckon it could be the latter.

One to watch: Steven Cummings. The Briton has won stages in each of the last two Tours, could he make it a hat-trick?

Now, this is interesting. German sprinter Andre Greipel is in all sorts of trouble, trying to lug himself up this category three climb.

He'll have a descent to catch back on but the next category three climb follows quickly.

Even more incentive for a strong breakaway group to get clear.

I think it's unlikely many teams would willingly work with Greipel's Lotto Soudal today anyway.

A lot of teams have lost their main sprinter and why would a team whose main man is slower in a straight sprint than Greipel help keep the race together for a sprint finish?

The likes of Dimension Data may well think Steve Cummings is a better option in a break than Edvald Boasson Hagen is in the sprint. And even if Cummings is caught, they'll still have Boasson Hagen for the sprint. All hypothetical for now, of course.

Pierre Rolland and Romain Sicard are the last two riders dangling off the front but will shortly be reeled in.

The race is all back together towards the summit of this climb - Sicard goes over first but the mountains classification is done and dusted - Warren Barguil will wear polka dot to Paris.

Sure enough, the gap to the break has come right down and various groups are coming across to the front eight, with around 2km to the summit of the category three Col Lebraut.

That eight-man group are still out front and have a gap of about 25 seconds.

A lot of teams have missed that break so can't see them letting this one go for much longer.

They ride together, they room together. Probably the most successful room in the Tour actually.

Sunweb's Warren Barguil and Michael Matthews show off their jerseys before stage 19.

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An eight-man breakaway now has a 20 second or so advantage.

The riders are Pierre Rolland, Maxime Bouet, Dylan van Baarle, Michael Albasini, Adrien Petit Marcus Burghardt, Julien Vermote and Guillaume van Keirsbulck.

Missed the action yesterday? Here's the report for you to catch up on.

In a rush? Well, Chris Froome staved off attacks from Romain Bardet and, despite losing four bonus seconds to the Frenchman on the line, the Briton retained his lead in the yellow jersey and looks good to keep it all the way to Paris, with Saturday's stage a time trial in Marseille.

Warren Barguil won his second stage of the Tour with a thrilling attack late on and also guaranteed he will win the polka dot jersey as King of the Mountains in Paris, as long as he finishes the race.

His Sunweb team-mate Michael Matthews also effectively sealed the green points jersey, maintaining a 160-point lead over Andre Greipel with only 160 points remaining.

And Britain's Simon Yates lost a bit of his lead in the best young rider's white jersey but should hold on to it all the way to Paris too.

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It's Belgium's national day today so expect plenty of their riders to go on the attack.

For now, it's a German - Jasha Sutterlin - and a Frenchman - Julien Simon - who are up front.

No chance those behind will let them go.

Guillaume van Keirsbulck tries a solo dig off the front but is eventually swallowed up.

A lot of Quick-Step riders seem keen to force something today too.

And who else but Thomas de Gendt now surges to the front of a mini-break.