Summary

  • Stage 12: Briancon to Alpe d'Huez, 166km

  • Summit finish on famous Alpe d'Huez

  • Three hors categorie climbs

  • Second time up Col du Galibier in two days

  • Vingegaard in yellow jersey as overall leader

  • Bardet second - 2mins 16secs behind

  • Defending champion Pogacar third - 2mins 22secs adrift

  • GB's Thomas fourth, Yates sixth

Live Reporting

Chris Bevan

  1. This is what today means to Tom Pidcock

    What a ride this was by the Brit.

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  2. General classification after stage 12

    General classification after stage 12

    1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 46hrs 28mins 46secs

    2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 22secs

    3. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 26secs

    4. Romain Bardet (Fra/DSM) +2mins 35secs

    5. Adam Yates (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +3mins 44secs

    6. Nairo Quintana (Col/Arkea Samsic) +3mins 58secs

    7. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +4mins 07secs

    8. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +7mins 39secs

    9. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +9mins 32secs

    10. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Bora-Hansgrohe) +10mins 06secs

  3. 'No regrets!'

    Here's more from Chris Froome on his third-place finish today... Froome, a four-time Tour de France winner, is 37 and at the other end of his career to 22-year-old Tom Pidcock - not that he showed it today.

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  4. Results of stage 12

    Stage 12 results:

    1. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) 4hrs 55mins 24secs

    2. Louis Meintjes (Rsa/Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux) +48secs

    3. Chris Froome (GB/Israel-Premier Tech) +2mins 06secs

    4. Neilson Powless (USA/EF Education-EasyPost) +2mins 29secs

    5. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +3mins 23secs

    6. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) Same time

    7. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers)

    8. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +3mins 26secs

    9. Sepp Kuss (USA/Jumbo-Visma) Same time

    10. Giulio Ciccone (Ita/Trek-Segafredo) +3mins 32secs

  5. 'Amazing descending and dominant climbing'

    It really was the complete ride by Britain's Tom Pidcock today, whether he was going uphill or downhill - he did both very fast!

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  6. 'I gave it absolutely everything'

    Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome rolled back the years to finish third in today's stage and was understandably pretty pleased about it, after his long struggles with injury: "I gave it absolutely everything I had today to win the stage, and I don't have any regrets.

    "Where I have come from in the last three years, battling back after my accident, to finish third on one of the hardest stages of the Tour, I can be really happy with that.

    "And I am going to keep pushing. I don't know where my limits are, but I am going to keep trying to improve and hopefully get back to winning ways again."

    Chris FroomeReuters

  7. 'One of the craziest experiences ever'

    Here's Britain's stage winner Tom Pidcock on what it was like riding through the crowds for a brilliant triumph on Alpe d'Huez for his first stage victory on the Tour de France: "That was unbelievable, one of the craziest experiences ever.

    "I could barely hear anything, I've probably got hearing damage. That was ridiculous and there were many points where I thought I was going to get taken out."

    Now you know why Tom Pidcock is rated so highly at every type of bike racing. You can read more about his remarkable journey, here.

  8. 'I paced it really well'

    Tom Pidcock has just been asked when he knew he had won today's stage on Alpe d'Huez and replied: "honestly, only with 800m to go."

    I didn't really know what to do. I kept going because I didn't want to get caught. I honestly don't know if I went too hard or whatever, but actually I paced it really well.

    Tom PidcockReuters

  9. Pidcock gets combativity award too

    As well as a famous stage win, Tom Pidcock gets the combativity award for most attacking rider today... he deserves it too, for the way he went downhill as well as up.

  10. What a ride!

    At 22, Britain's Tom Pidcock becomes the youngest man to win a Tour stage on Alpe d'Huez, beating the record of Colombia's Lucho Herrera, who was 23 when he won in 1984.

  11. Tom Pidcock wins stage 12

    What a way and what a place to win your first Tour de France stage!

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  12. Pidcock wins by 48 seconds

    Just incredible stuff by Tom Pidcock. He won that stage by 48 seconds in the end. His descending was breathtaking but that final climb was sensational, through the crowds and through the heat.

  13. Here come the big hitters...

    Tadej Pogacar sprints for the line, but he cannot lose Jonas Vingegaard here either.

    Geraint Thomas rolls over the finish with them and it looks like he is going to replace Romain Bardet in the podium places.

  14. Froome comes in third

    Louis Meintjes is going to be second over the line, then Chris Froome... after that, come the General Classification guys, unless we have one more attack by Tadej Pogacar to come.

    Amazing stuff by Froome too by the way. Great to see him back in this kind of form.

  15. Tom Pidcock wins stage 12

    An Olympic mountain bike champion AND Queen Stage winner of the 2022 Tour de France. Yes, that's right.

    What a ride on Alpe d'Huez and Bastille Day. Amazing stuff from the Brit.

  16. 800m to go

    Tadej Pogacar just won't give up, but he can't drop Jonas Vingegaard. Again, they just dropped everyone else though. Again, here comes Geraint Thomas as the pace comes back down.

  17. Pogacar attacks again

    1.3km to go

    It looks like Tom Pidcock has got this stage win, which would be amazing.

    Down the road, there aren't any more fireworks from Tadej Pogacar ... hang on, no... he's just gone again....

  18. 1.8km to go

    Tom Pidcock has some space on the road at last, because the crowd are back behind barriers. He plugs on, and the gap is getting bigger.

  19. 2.3km to go

    Further up the road, Britain's Tom Pidcock has got a 35 second lead on Louis Meintjes for the stage win. Chris Froome is another minute back, but seems to be struggling.

  20. 3km to go

    Wow. Tadej Pogacar has not managed to lose Jonas Vingegaard with that attack, but he has dropped everyone else. Geraint Thomas is coming back across though...