Michał Kwiatkowski has popped.

Jonas Vingegaard is almost inviting Tadej Pogacar to attack. Some major stares going on between the two GC favourites.

Michał Kwiatkowski is still with Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar.

Wout van Aert is done and almost falls off his bike as he pulls in to the side. What an effort. Jonas Vingegaard attacks. Tadej Pogacar sticks on his wheel.

James Shaw and Ruben Guerreiro drop away.

Neilson Powless cracks. He'll surely take the polka-dot jersey. He's been in three breakaways in six stages. Job done for the day.

Neilson Powless is still just about holding on to the back of the breakaway. The steep slopes are incoming now and Wout van Aert will surely peel off any time and light this one up.

Just how much longer can Wout van Aert continue to pull on the front for Jonas Vingegaard at the front of the race?

The Belgian rocketed out of the peloton to just outside Tarbes around 137km back to kick start the breakaway.

No other cyclist in the world has as many gifts as Van Aert.

There was some race radio information before suggesting that the 2019 champion Egan Bernal was over five minutes down.

But the Colombian appears on the front of the yellow jersey group to happily confirm that not to be the case.

Very much awaiting lift off here. Wout van Aert is starting to lose a little bit of time but it's pretty much a couple of seconds here and there.

Jai Hindley's group which has largely had German national champion Emanuel Buchmann pulling on the front is two minutes 45 seconds down.

Even after Wout van Aert's full day in the break there's no reeling him in.

Lots of cat and mouse further down the mountain. The group containing Jai Hindley basically feels as though it is a race for a final spot on the podium in Paris, although in the Tour de France things can change very quickly.

The ascent up to Cauterets-Cambasque, is 15.9km in length but last four kilometres are when things are likely to explode as the double-digit gradients kick in.

Here we go. The climb to the summit finish. Tadej Pogacar is still glued to the wheel of Jonas Vingegaard.

The leading group of eight now has a two minutes and 25-second advantage.

Just hearing that Italian GC hopeful Giulio Ciccone is in a group five minutes back.

French President Emmanuel Macron has a prime view of all the action here.

He is sat in the red car of Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme, giving a thumbs up out of the window to passers by while shadowing the leading group.

Back down the road there's a little bit of discord between the Ineos Grenadiers riders and those left from UAE Team Emirates, who look like they've decided not to pull on the front of that group.

Wout van Aert steams through to the front of the group he led up the Tourmalet.

Jonas Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar and Wout van Aert have nearly reached the front group on this descent. They are just a few seconds back now.

Here is the best race situation I can offer:

Leading group: Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost), Ruben Guerreiro (Movistar), Tobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X)Chasers: Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost)Two minutes down: Jai Hindley, Emanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates), Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla), Carlos Rodriguez, Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ), Romain Bardet (DSM), Felix Gall (Ag2r-Citröen