Ile d'Oleron Le Chateau-d'Oleron to Ile de Re Saint-Martin-de-Re
Slovenia'a Primoz Roglic leads with Britain's Adam Yates in eighth
107th edition of the Tour de France
Three-week race delayed due to coronavirus pandemic
Image source, Getty ImagesRight that's me done for today folks.
You can read our report on Sam Bennett's sprint to victory in stage 10 of the Tour de France here.
I shall see you all again on Thursday but one of my colleagues will be here tomorrow as the race heads from Chatelaillon-Plage to Poitiers.
Thanks for joining me.
Sam Bennett became the sixth Irishman to win a stage at the Tour de France after Seamus Elliott (1963), Sean Kelly (1978, 1980, 1981 and 1982), Stephen Roche (1985, 1987 and 1992), Martin Earley (1989) and Dan Martin (2013 and 2018).
Bennett has also now won stages at all three Grand Tours after winning three at the Giro'd Italia in 2018 and two at the Vuelta a Espana in 2019.
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Ben: I had my photo taken for the French equivalent of Tricolore. I was dressed in full cricket kit. Dread to think how that was defaced over the years.
Stefan: Favourite bike ride - millennium coast path ntc4 Llanelli.
Lovely spot that Stefan.
Image source, @stefanpearceSam Bennett's first ever Tour de France stage win sees him jump ahead in the race for the green jersey.
The Irishman is now on 196 points with his former Bora-Hansgrohe team-mate and perennial winner Peter Sagan in second on 175.
France's Bryan Coquard is third on 129 points, which isn't bad at all considering he had indicated that was injured about 20km from the finish.
General classification after stage 10:
1. Primoz Roglic (Slo/Jumbo-Visma) 42hrs 15mins 23secs
2. Egan Bernal (Col/Ineos Grenadiers) +21secs
3. Guillaume Martin (Fra/Cofidis) +28secs
4. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R-La Mondiale) +30secs
5. Nairo Quintana (Col/Arkea-Samsic) +32secs
6. Rigoberto Uran (Col/EF Pro Cycling) Same time
7. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE-Team Emirates) +44secs
8. Adam Yates (GB/Mitchelton-Scott) +1mins 02secs
9. Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana) +1mins 15secs
10. Mikel Landa (Spa/Bahrain McLaren) +1mins 42secs
Stage 10 winner Ireland's Sam Bennett speaking to ITV4: "I don’t think it has hit me. I thought he might have got me. It hasn’t hit me at all yet.
"I thought I would be in floods of tears but I am in shock. I just want to thank everyone who has been involved. The whole team for giving me this opportunity to get to here."
Cue the floods of tears...before Bennett went on to say...
"You dream of it and never think it will happen. Oh man. I was waiting to go and I thought I might have left it too late."
Talk about emotional Sam Bennett is welling up during his post-race interview....
1. Sam Bennett (Ire/Deceuninck–Quick-Step) 3hrs 35mins 22secs
2. Caleb Ewan (Aus/Lotto Soudal) Same time
3. Peter Sagan (Slo/Bora-Hansgrohe)
4. Elia Viviani (Ita/Cofidis)
5. Mads Pedersen (Den/Trek-Segafredo)
6. Andre Griepel (Ger/Israel Start-Up Nation)
7. Bryan Coquard (Fra/B&B Hotels-Vital Concept)
8. Cees Bol (Ned/Sunweb)
9. Jasper Stuyen (Bel/Trek-Segafredo)
10. Luka Mezgec (Slo/Mitchelton-Scott)
Image source, Getty ImagesThat was superb from Sam Bennett who had this stage in his sights from the roll out.
I'm sure he will be toasting Michael Morkov who brilliantly led him out to hold off Ewan with Sagan in third.
Sam Bennett goes followed by Cees Bol, Peter Sagan and Caleb Ewan.
The little Australian tries to get round on the left but Bennett holds on for the win.
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And we have lift-off.....
Here we go.....
Sunweb, Deceuninck-Quick-Step and Mitchelton-Scott all fancy this.
But are trying to play the game and not get too caught up in the headwind that is smashing into the front of the main bunch.
Ireland's Sam Bennett said he was after a "stage win" today.
Let's see how he goes here.
Sunweb's Cees Bol is positioned and ready.
Lotto Soudal's Caleb Ewan is up there as well slightly hidden from view.
The Jumbo Visma boys are back in business. Looks like they have three or four riders up top now. Strength in numbers.
Once they get to the three-kilometre mark they can all relax as all riders in the peloton at that point get the same time, regardless of how far they are behind the stage winner.
Suspect the Dutch team may just wind Wout van Aert up and let him go again.
Trouble what trouble.
Wout van Aert helps Primoz Roglic back towards the front of the peloton.
Poor positioning from Jumbo Visma.
The yellow and black train containing the yellow jersey get that all wrong around the island and drop off the front.
What's this...
Groupama-FDJ's Stefan Kung clips off the front of the bunch on the attack but is quickly hauled in.