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Not much is happening in the race for the yellow jersey today. Because this stage is expected to end in a bunch-sprint, it is the sprinters' teams who will control the breakaway, and decide when to reel them in, rather than Jonas Vingegaard's mates from Jumbo-Visma... he just has to stay out of trouble.

Here's the result of the intermediate sprint at Lapeyrouse... it means Philipsen now leds Coquard by 113 points, but today's real prize is at the finish in Moulins, later.

1. Matis Louvel, 20 pts

2. Andrey Amador, 17 pts

3. Daniel Oss, 15 pts

4. Jasper Philipsen, 13 pts

5. Bryan Coquard, 11 pts

6. Jordi Meeus, 10 pts

7. Biniam Girmay, 9 pts

8. Danny van Poppel, 8 pts

9. Mike Teunissen, 7 pts

10. Omar Fraile, 6 pts

It looks like Coquard will take the 14 points for fourth place at the intermediate sprint, but no... Philipsen was on his wheel and surged past him on the line.

The gap to the front three is now one minute and 47 seconds, with the intermediate sprint at Lapeyrouse fast approaching.

Plenty of people in the peloton will fancy the remaining points when they get here... Jasper Philipsen is in the green jersey at the moment, with a healthy 111-point lead over Bryan Coquard, but will he keep his powder dry for the finish?

I haven't even got any pictures of fields of sunflowers to show you at the moment.

Just, er, fields I'm afraid.

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Pello Bilbao leapt up the General Classification, from 11th to fifth, thanks to that win but Jonas Vingegaard retains the overall lead and, if he stays upright, will keep hold of the yellow jersey today, too.

General classification after stage 10

1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 42hrs 33mins 13secs

2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +17secs

3. Jai Hindley (Aus/Bora-Hansgrohe) +2mins 40secs

4. Carlos Rodriguez Cano (Spa/Ineos Grenadiers) +4mins 22secs

5. Pello Bilbao (Spa/Bahrain Victorious) +4mins 34secs

6. Adam Yates (GB/UAE Team Emirates) +4mins 39secs

7. Simon Yates (GB/Team Jayco-AlUla) +4mins 44secs

8. Thomas Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +5mins 26secs

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A quick reminder of what happened yesterday, with Spanish rider Pello Bilbao dedicating his victory to his late Bahrain-Victorious team-mate Gino Mader after winning stage 10.

Mader died aged 26 in a crash at last month's Tour de Suisse.

"It was the only reason [for the win]," an emotional Bilbao said at the finish. "It was a special one, for Gino."

"It was hard to prepare the last two weeks with him in my mind, but my family helped me a lot to just keep calm and positive and put all my positive energy into doing something nice in the Tour.

"I wanted to do it in the first few stages [in Bilbao's native Basque country] as it was so special for me, but it was not possible, so I just waited for my moment.

"I was maybe thinking my position in the overall was going to be a problem, but I decided to a make an all-in move and in the end it was the right movement.

"My first victory in the Tour after 13 years as a professional is such a special moment for me."

Hmmm, it's not exactly all happening on the road at the moment. These three riders are going to be left to hang out off the front for a long while yet. They also know they are not going to win this stage, which must be fun for them.

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Italy's Daniel Oss (TotalEnergies), France's Matis Louvel (Arkea-Samsic) and Costa Rican rider Andrey Amador (EF Education-EasyPost) escaped after about 5km of today's 179.8km stage and at one stage they had opened a gap of two minutes and 15 seconds.

It has come down a bit now though, and is hovering around one minute and 30 seconds.

The pace of the peloton is being set by the Alpecin-Deceuninck team of Belgian sprinter Jasper Philipsen (below), who will be targeting his fourth stage win later, if everything goes to plan.

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It's fair to say this was one of the stages the Manx Missile, aka Mark Cavendish, was targeting at the start of the Tour as being a possible day for him to break the record for all-time stage wins that he currently shares with another legend, Eddy Merckx.

Sadly Cav's crash, and the broken collarbone sustained in it, on stage eight means he is one of the seven riders who have been forced to abandon this year's race.

We started the Tour on 1 July with 176 riders, and 169 rolled out of Clermont-Ferrand about 45 minutes ago.

Hello there, yes after a few tough days in the saddle this should be a stage for the sprinters to enjoy, at last.

Today's 179.8km route is far from flat but the fastest finishers in the peloton are unlikely to be troubled by three modest categorised climbs as the Tour heads to Moulins - in the heart of France - for the first time.

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We've got fields of sunflowers, a doomed three-man breakaway and there's (probably) a bunch-sprint finish to come in less than three hours' time.

What else are you going to do with your Wednesday?

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