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00:00 [Radio chatter]
00:04 One minute, five-five.
00:06 [Radio chatter]
00:10 Always do your best and we can react if something happens.
00:13 [Radio chatter]
00:18 Come on, man, we're gonna make it, eh?
00:20 [Music]
00:22 What can we expect from today? Will it be crazy?
00:26 But it will be a brutal start.
00:28 Looks like it's gonna be a very fast start.
00:32 Back of the pack, a lot of riders are dropped, mostly the sprinters.
00:37 Very good, guys, very good. Sure we do a good start.
00:40 Can't hear you.
00:42 Too much in the downhill. Don't work too much in the downhill.
00:46 We keep that close, eh, guys? Otherwise the breakaway can be gone, eh?
00:51 If it slows down, we can get back.
00:53 [Radio chatter]
00:55 Just follow the big groups.
00:57 These are all the guys that have a teammate in front, so they are not gonna help. We have to ride.
01:02 [Music]
01:05 [Radio chatter]
01:09 Here's the first attacker of the day, it's Mads Pedersen.
01:13 Another big attack on the right-hand side.
01:15 The big acceleration.
01:18 As we see another attack from Anna-Philippe.
01:21 It's been a rock and roll day so far.
01:23 [Radio chatter]
01:27 As predicted, it was an explosive start and the attacks just kept on coming.
01:32 As the top two overall, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar, marked each other closely in the peloton.
01:38 After more than 60 kilometers of full gas racing, two men got a small gap.
01:42 Dylan Terns and Tish Bino to teammate of Vingegaard's.
01:45 They were soon joined by Mads Pedersen.
01:49 The group chasers, Amador, Izaguirre and Jorgensen.
01:55 This is the Maillot-Jean group. Fred Wright refusing to give in.
01:59 It's a very reduced yellow group jersey.
02:02 It looks like the brake may go when these two groups rejoin.
02:07 [Music]
02:10 Eventually, the yellow jersey group decided to ease off the gas.
02:13 And ten more riders joined up with the trio at the front.
02:16 Van der Poel, Pino, Amador, Izaguirre, Martin, Guerrero, Jorgensen, Campenaerts and Bergodeau.
02:25 [Music]
02:28 Alaphilippe and Stuyven were chasing as riders who had been dropped caught up to the main bunch.
02:33 [Music]
02:35 [Radio chatter]
02:42 On to the descent and Mathieu Van der Poel has decided.
02:46 Let's just see who's prepared to descend quickly.
02:49 [Music]
02:58 [Radio chatter]
03:01 [Music]
03:09 The move of Mathieu Van der Poel with 47 kilometers of racing to go.
03:14 He's taking today's stage by the scruff of the neck and giving it a big shake.
03:19 It's great when you see Van der Poel riding like this.
03:23 [Music]
03:27 The stage would be decided on the final climb, the Col de la Croix-Rosier,
03:31 where Van der Poel was caught by a group of breakaway survivors.
03:34 There were still eight or nine contenders, but all this effort was starting to take its toll.
03:40 Mathieu Van der Poel is glued to the wheel.
03:42 Oh, he's cracking at the moment. Izaguirre is flying away.
03:47 The adhesive doesn't work. Izaguirre is going solo.
03:51 Van der Poel tried and failed.
03:54 Van der Poel is desperately trying to hang on.
03:57 [Music]
03:59 Thibaut Pino's decided it's time to go.
04:02 Guillaume Martin onto the wheel. Jorgensen behind him.
04:05 Tish Bhanut is tucked in in the slipstream.
04:08 [Music]
04:10 Yonaz Iguire, Cofidis, destination Belleville-en-Beaujolais and a stage win if he can open up the gap.
04:18 In the meantime, in the peloton, Castro-Bierro is putting the pace, the power on this peloton.
04:25 And Van der Poel is going to be around 42 seconds behind.
04:31 [Music]
04:37 Oh, he went straight in the ditch and over.
04:40 That's a big crash. Oh, and he almost took out the Movistar rider.
04:44 [Music]
04:48 20 kilometers to go, 35 seconds. He's still in the lead.
04:53 [Music]
04:56 Thibaut Pino with that style. Is he going to finish second on the stage again?
05:01 [Music]
05:06 Bergerot, though, starts to ramp it up. He recognizes that he needs to get across.
05:12 [Music]
05:13 The gap is increasing. The gap is increasing in favor of Yonaz Iguire. One minute and two seconds.
05:19 [Music]
05:26 Yonaz Iguire, the Cofidis rider, comes around the corner and he can just drink this one in in Beaujolais.
05:36 Yonaz Iguire shakes the head. He made his move on the final climb of the Col de la Croix-Rosier.
05:45 Over 30 kilometers solo. Yonaz Iguire celebrates, conducts the crowd,
05:54 drinks in the glory of winning a stage of the Tour de France.
05:59 The floodgates have opened for Cofidis. Two stage wins in this Tour.
06:06 Yonaz Iguire takes his second career Tour de France stage.
06:12 Jorgensen is getting ready to lead out and get second place on the stage.
06:17 But Bergerot is getting set to give French squads one two on the day.
06:23 Bergerot kicks hard. Right hand side. Jorgensen left hand side.
06:27 It's going to be Bergerot who takes second place. Jorgensen takes third.
06:33 [Music]
06:37 I've been trying to catch a break all the Tour. It didn't work out.
06:41 And look, in the end, it was today that I caught the break.
06:44 And the truth is that Guillaume and I have done very well all day.
06:48 And well, I've seen myself in the last stage with strength.
06:52 I've started and the truth is that I've started far, but I've been able to hold the difference and make the victory.
07:00 [Music]
07:15 Iguire taking his second Tour stage win seven years after the first.
07:19 Cofidis waited 15 years for a Tour stage victory. Now two have come along at once.
07:24 The Basque is the toast of Beaujolais.
07:27 Fingegaard and Pogacar are still 17 seconds apart at the top of the GC.
07:31 Pino and Martin both jumped up five places after getting into the breakaway.
07:37 Philipsen leads the green jersey standings by 144 points from Pedersen.
07:41 He's up to second thanks to his 20-point haul at the intermediate sprints.
07:46 Paulos decided to hold back today and save his legs for the Alps.
07:50 The battle for polka dots resumes in earnest tomorrow.
07:56 And so too does the battle for overall victory.
07:59 Pogacar would no doubt love to trade white for yellow as he returns to the Grands Colombiers,
08:03 where he won on the Tour's last visit in 2020.
08:08 [Music]
08:17 [BLANK_AUDIO]