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Stage 3

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18ºc - 21ºc with 25+ kph winds with gusts to up to 40 kph

Cloudy with rain at start of race

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The Jersey wearers:

:yellow_square: Mathieu van der Poel :netherlands: Alpecin-Deceuninck
:green_square: Jasper Philipsen :belgium: Alpecin-Deceuninck
:red_circle: Tadej Pogačar :slovenia: UAE Team Emirates-XRG
:white_large_square: Kévin Vaquelin :france: Arkéa-B&B Hotels

182 riders on the Start Line.

Stage 3 is Underway! :sun_behind_rain_cloud:

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Cheers for this insight Debs.

Peter

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Oh dear, a jersey favourite gone today :cry:

Absolutely typical. A completely meaningless stage for the first half, with nobody expending any effort. GC leaders doing domestique runs, everyone apart from front line coasting, absolutely nothing happening and then boom! A mistake from a rider with absolutely no interest in the sprint leaderboard (Coquard) ends a rider’s tour.

Possibly driven by Cofidis sitting in the relegation zone?

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Another great sprint but what a dangerous sport cycling is. Nothing but respect for elite cyclists.

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STAGE 3 RESULTS : VALENCIENNES - DUNKERQUE

  1. Tim Merlier :belgium: Soudal Quick-Step, in 4:16:55
  2. Jonathan Milan (Ita) Lidl-Trek
  3. Phil Bauhaus (Ger) Bahrain Victorious
  4. Søren Wærenskjold (Nor) Uno-X Mobility
  5. Pavel Bittner (Cze) Picnic PostNL
  6. Biniam Girmay (Eri) Intermarché-Wanty
  7. Kaden Groves (Aus) Alpecin-Deceuninck
  8. Pascal Ackermann (Ger) IPT
  9. Amaury Capiot (Bel) Arkéa-B&B Hotels
  10. Alberto Dainese (Ita) Tudor Pro Cycling, all at same time

DNF:
Jasper Philipsen :belgium: Alpecin-Deceuninck (crash - broken collar bone)

181 riders finished Stage 3

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:yellow_square: GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 3

  1. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Deceuninck, in 12:55:37
  2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirate-XRG, +4s
  3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, +6s
  4. Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Hotels, +10s
  5. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma-Lease a Bike
  6. Enric Mas (Esp) Movistar, all at same time
  7. Joseph Blackmore (GBR) Israel-Premier Tech, +41s
  8. Tobias Halland Johannessen (Nor) Uno-X Mobility
  9. Ben O’Connor, (Aus) Jayco AlUla, all at same time
  10. Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Cofidis, +49s

:green_square: POINTS CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 3

  1. Jonathan Milan :italy: Lidl-Trek, 81pts
  2. Biniam Girmay (Eri) Intermarché-Wanty, 77pts
  3. Tim Merlier (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step 63pts
  4. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Deceuninck, 50pts
  5. Anthony Turgis (Fra) Total Energies, 49pts

:red_circle: MOUNTAINS CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 3

  1. Tim Wellens :belgium: UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 3pts
  2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 3pts
  3. Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Cofidis, 2pts
  4. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, 2pts
  5. Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Hotels, 1 pt

:white_large_square: YOUTH CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 3

  1. Kévin Vauquelin :france: Arkéa-B&B Hotels, in 12:55:47
  2. Joseph Blackmore (Gbr) Israel-Premier Tech, +31s
  3. Oscar Onley (GBr) Picnic-PostNL, +39s
  4. Jenno Berckmoes (Bel) Lotto
  5. Mattias Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek, both same time

:large_orange_diamond: TEAMS CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 3

  1. Groupama-FDJ, at 38:47:21
  2. Visma-Lease a Bike, +31s
  3. Alpecin-Deceuninck, +2:00

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Just my observations on that horrible crash…

Looking closely at Biniam Girmay’s lead-out man [number 45] Laurenz Rex moves up to go past Bryan Coquard’s right hand side but here they either bump handlebars or lock pedals and both unclip momentarily out of control, the sideways rebound action of Coquard takes Jasper Philipsen’s front wheel away to effect the immediate crash.

Bryan Coquard maybe a slightly built guy but is an excellent sprinter, he has every right to be there challenging for the Sprint line. The bump together he had with Laurenz looks like an unintentional race incident which resulted in the unfortunate front wheel wipe out of Philipsen.

I agree with the officials that no one was to blame - very bad racing incident.

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Tuesday 8th July 2025

Stage 4 : Amiens Métropole - Rouen (174.2km)

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A day for the puncheurs, and another battle for the polka dot jersey on the roller coster route to the finish in Rouen.

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19ºc at the start line (expected to rise)
A moderate breeze of 20 kph is blowing towards the north-west.

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Stage 4 Jersey wearers:

:yellow_square: Mathieu van der Poel :netherlands: Alpecin-Deceuninck
:green_square: Jonathan Milan :italy: Lidl-Trek
:red_circle: Tim Wellens :belgium: UAE Team Emirates-XRG
:white_large_square: Kévin Vaquelin :france: Arkéa-B&B Hotels

181 riders on the Start Line.

Stage 4 is Underway! :sun_behind_rain_cloud:

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STAGE 4 RESULTS : AMIENS - ROUEN

  1. Tadej Pogačar :slovenia: UAE Team Emirates-XRG, in 3:50:29
  2. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Dececuninck
  3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike
  4. Oscar Onley (GBr) Picnic PostNL
  5. Romain Grégoire (Fra) Groupam-FDJ
  6. João Almeida (Por) UAE Team Emirates-XRG, all at same time
  7. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step, +3s
  8. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma-Lease a Bike, both at same time
  9. Mattias Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek, +7s
  10. Kévin Vaquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Hotels, +10s

181 riders finished Stage 4

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:yellow_square: GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 4

  1. Mathieu van der Poel :netherlands: Alpecin-Deceuninck, in 16:46:00
  2. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirate-XRG, at same time
  3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, +8s
  4. Matteo Jorgenson (USA) Visma-Lease a Bike, +19s
  5. Kévin Vauquelin (Fra) Arkéa-B&B Hotels, +26s
  6. Enric Mas (Esp) Movistar, +48s
  7. Oscar Onley (GBr) Picnic PostNL, +55s
  8. João Almeida (Por) UAE Team Emirates-XRG, at same time
  9. Remco Evenepoel (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step, +58s
  10. Mattias Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek, +1:02

:green_square: POINTS CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 4

  1. Jonathan Milan :italy: Lidl-Trek, 92pts
  2. Biniam Girmay (Eri) Intermarché-Wanty, 87pts
  3. Mathieu van der Poel (Ned) Alpecin-Deceuninck, 80pts
  4. Tadej Pogačar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 80pts
  5. Tim Merlier (Bel) Soudal Quick-Step, 72pts

:red_circle: MOUNTAINS CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 4

  1. Tadej Pogačar :slovenia: UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 5pts
  2. Tim Wellens (Bel) UAE Team Emirates-XRG, 5pts
  3. Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Visma-Lease a Bike, 3pts
  4. Lenny Martinez (Fra) Cofidis, 2pts
  5. Benjamin Thomas (Fra) Cofidis, 2pts

:white_large_square: YOUTH CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 4

  1. Kévin Vauquelin :france: Arkéa-B&B Hotels, in 16:46:26
  2. Oscar Onley (GBr) Picnic-PostNL, +29s
  3. Remco Evenepoel (Bel), +32s
  4. Mattias Skjelmose (Den) Lidl-Trek, both same time
  5. Joseph Blackmore (Gbr) Israel-Premier Tech, +1:15

:large_orange_diamond: TEAMS CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 4

  1. Visma-Lease a Bike, in 50:19:52
  2. Groupama-FDJ, +44s
  3. UAE Team Emirates-XRG, +1:34

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Outstanding finish today.

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Only 426 to go…:wink::wink:

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Wednesday 9th July 2025

Stage 5 : Caen - Caen (33km) Individual Time Trial

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Top time trialists performing today (in order of ranking)

Remco Evenepoel - Soudal Quick-Step
Edoardo Affini - Team Visma Lease a Bike
João Almeida - UAE Team Emirates
Jonas Vingegaard - Team Visma Lease a Bike
Stefan Bissegger - Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team
Primož Roglic - Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe
Mattia Cattaneo - Soudal Quick-Step
Maximilian Schachmann - Soudal Quick-Step
Wout van Aert - Team Visma Lease a Bike
Tadej Pogačar - UAE Team Emirates - XRG

The Grenadiers will be missing their TT rocket Ganna today who unfortunately crashed and had to abandon on Stage 1.

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It certainly was! A big shout out in particular to Oscar Onley for finishing fourth in such illustrious company, especially after he had a crash. He seemed a little disappointed in his post race interview😀

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Stage 5 Individual Time Trial Jersey wearers:

:yellow_square: Mathieu van der Poel :netherlands: Alpecin-Deceuninck
:green_square: Jonathan Milan :italy: Lidl-Trek
:red_circle: Tadej Pogačar :slovenia: UAE Team Emirates-XRG
:white_large_square: Kévin Vaquelin :france: Arkéa-B&B Hotels

DNS:
Emilien Jeannière :fr: Team TotalEnergies (crash injury from Stage 4)
Jasper De Buyst :belgium: Lotto

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25ºc dry favourable conditions with slight breeze next 3 hours

179 riders to compete

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First rider to start : 13:05 (local time) Yevgeniy Fedorov :kazakhstan: XDS Astana Team

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The National, Continental, World and Olympic time trial champions present:
13:05 Yevgeniy Fedorov (XDS-Astana) / Kazakhstan + Asia :kazakhstan:
13:15 Luke Plapp (Jayco-AlUla) / Australia :australia:
13:49 Edoardo Affini (Visma-Lease a Bike) / Europe
14:10 Max Schachmann (Soudal-Quick Step) / Germany :germany:
14:20 Bruno Armirail (Groupama-FDJ) / France :france:
15:04 Toms Skujins (Lidl-Trek) / Latvia :latvia:
15:06 Tobias Foss (Ineos Grenadiers) / Norway :norway:
15:36 Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) / Switzerland :switzerland:
16:44 Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) / Belgium + World + Olympic :belgium:

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:television:

Freeview [Channel 26] ITV4 : TdF live coverage 14:00 - 17:00 (UK time)

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What a waste of time these time trials are for the majority of the field.

Not in GC contention - coast round
Sprinter - coast round (Milan)
Under team orders - coast round (Thomas)
Recovering - coast round (van Aert)
Saving energy for mountains - coast round (Kuss)

More or less a rest day.

Realistically maybe 5 riders want to compete for Stage 5.

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Maybe…but what a great way for spectators to get to see each rider pass them, rather than the 20-second dash.

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A disappointing result for the race I think but wonderful TTs from Evenepoel & Pogačar.

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I would expect the “majority of the field” will welcome the ITT as a brisk recovery ride and be thankful.
This flat 33km time trial has been strategically placed to be a kind of recovery day of sorts, they’ve just had four hard stages, and another five hard stages to come after today, before the first proper rest-day next Tuesday.

Time trialing is an important discipline that deserves a couple of stages in a Grand Tour.
Also a good reality check for us normal humans to gauge just how fast these supermen can go on a bike :sweat_smile:

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I agree, but the number of riders who actually ride flat out reduces each year.

Also not sure they’ve just had 4 hard stages! Mostly flat, maybe areas slightly hilly. Stage 3 was mostly a procession too, very little watts input.

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Probably inevitable when the top couple of teams hoover up the best riders to support their team leaders so can’t ‘race’/have to conserve energy? Tbf Thomas did say he intended to compete but was off the pace at the first time check so decided to conserve. Ineos are a disappointment these days.

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