Pogacar's UAE team-mate Marc Soler is one of the men up the road in the break.

The gap is still growing, and is up to two minutes and 45 seconds.

The gap is growing quickly. Those 18 riders are now about two minutes clear of the yellow jersey bunch... and a few more are trying to get across.

The race to the top of Cote de Chataignier has resulted in a breakaway group forming.

No big hitters in the 18 riders to have escaped. Vingegaard, Pogacar and co are happy to see this one get away...

It's not just the yellow jersey at stake today... Simon Geschce is trying to protect his lead in the King of the Mountains category, and is second over the top of Cote de Chataignier behind Quinn Simmons to pick up more polka dot points.

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There was no movement at the top of the General Classification after Stage 13, so this is how things look as we near the end of week two of the 2022 Tour:

General classification after stage 13

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 50hrs 47mins 34secs

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

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

4. Romain Bardet (Fra/Team 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

Jonas Vingegaard's turn to make a move. He joins a group of riders that briefly gets a gap on Pogacar as they head up Cote de Chataignier, a third category climb.

Riders are dropping off the pace all over the place but all the big hitters are back together again.

We were expecting a breakaway to get away early today, and some riders are still trying to get off the front of the Pogacar group, which contains race leader Jonas Vingegaard and three of his team-mates.... and Britain's Geraint Thomas too.

The gap from the yellow jersey to the next big bunch, containing Jumbo rider Primoz Roglic, is about two minutes.

Poor Caleb Ewan saw his hopes of a stage win scuppered by a crash with 70km to go of yesterday' stage, and the Australian sprinter is suffering already today because of the fierce pace from the start.

He is already eight minutes and 20 seconds behind the riders at the front of the race, with many more hills to come.

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Tadej Pogacar's attack on the first climb of the day - Cote de Saint Just Malmont - has really shaken things up but Jonas Vingegaard still has three Jumbo-Visma team-mates alongside him.

Why is Pogacar doing this - well, as well just being a naturally aggressive rider, he lost the yellow jersey on stage 11, and is two minutes and 22 seconds down on the Dane.

We have got more mountains to look forward to when the race reaches the Pyrenees next week, but today's finish on Cote de la Croix Neuve gives Pog a chance to attack and claw back a few seconds.

To see him go on the attack is no surprise, just not this early!

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Yes, the reason I mention Steve Cummings is because it is important to note that today's finish isn't at the summit of Cote de la Croix Neuve.

There's another 1.5km to go after that, in what is pretty much the only flat part of today's 192.5km route, on a piece of road that where the British rider claimed a famous win of his own.

In 2015, the Merseysider was part of a long 20-man breakaway but then saw French riders Thibaut Pinot and Romain Bardet go clear on the final climb.

That appeared to be that... but as they jockeyed for position after reaching the top, they were ambushed by Cummings - who powered on to clinch his maiden Tour win at the age of 34 in some style. He got another one the following year too.

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Today's stage finishes at the Mende Aerodrome on top of Cote de la Croix Neuve, which is universally known as 'Laurent Jalabert's Climb'.

Why? Well, because of an epic ride up it to victory by the famous French rider on Bastille Day in 1995, the first time the race had a finish there.

Jalabert had been in a break that escaped after 22km of the 222km stage and stayed clear, then he attacked on the climb for a famous solo victory.

Today's route has the same start and end point as it did in 27 years ago, but is slightly shorter. It's just as tough, though, with 3,400m of vertical claim and next to no flat sections - the race goes either uphill or down hill, all day, until the final 1.5km... which should be known as 'Steve Cummings Flat Bit'.

Let me explain more...

The chat before the stage was whether Tadej Pogacar would try something to shake up this race.

Well, he's certainly done that. He's attacked and attacked again to try and drop some of race leader's Jonas Vingegaard Jumbo-Visma team-mates and has succeeded in causing chaos in the peloton. Primoz Roglic is one of those Jumbo riders he has distanced.

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Today sees the race pedal into the ancient volcanic region of Lozere, and it looks like we can expect some explosive bike racing over the next few hours (sorry).

The riders don't have to worry about actual eruptions anymore - even Le Tour doesn't throw that at them - but plenty of problems lie in wait in these hills, other than molten lava.

You can call them bumps, or you can call them lumps - but there are a lot of them for the riders to get over, including five categorised climbs, in a stage that has already seen fireworks from the big hitters on the General Classification.

Plenty, already! We've only just left Saint Etienne and defending champion Tadej Pogacar has already been busy in the first 20km or so and has been trying to break up the peloton. Race leader Jonas Vingegaard has had to react to what was a surprise attack for everyone, me included!

I haven't even had a chance to tell you about today's stage yet...

Hello, and welcome to Stage 14 of the Tour de France.

Whether you are reading this or actually riding in the Tour, it's going to be a hot one - I think we could all do with a fridge as well stocked as the Lotto-Soudal team's ice-box to keep us hydrated over the next few hours.