Quinn Simmons and Jonathan Milan showed themselves early, but both were picked up again. Fred Wright also undertook an attack attempt.
Hard Val Mattias Skjelmose, who has to give up in Tour de France
After about forty kilometers, a leading group of around twenty riders formed, which also included Pascal Eenkhoorn. The first intermediate sprint, in Equièze-Sère, became a prey for Milan. Just before that, Mattias Skjelmose had fallen hard.
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At the start of the climb of the Tourmalet, it was clear that Remco Evenepoel was in trouble. The Wittetruidrager dropped further and further away and eventually had to get off. A sad day for the Belgian, who had third place in the general classification before the start of the stage.
Lenny Martinez is in the lead strongly
Not much later, Skjelmose also stepped off, who was too nuisance from his crash in the stage earlier. In the meantime, the Frenchman Lenny Martinez had come to the lead on his own and he was the first to reach the top of the Tourmalet. Martinez was also the first to come up on the subsequent Col d’Aspin.
At the descent of that mountain, Martinez was overtaken by Sepp Kuss and Valentin Paret-Painre, and not much later the trio was joined by Arensman, Rodriguez and Johannes. On the Col de Peyresourde, Arensman attacked and took half a minute ahead of his pursuers.
Thymen Arensman is the first to be on top of Peyresourde and is no longer ahead
The Dutchman was the first to come up on the Peyresourde and, after his well -running descent, expanded his lead to even more than two and a half minutes. The Netherlands breathed: would it be enough for a sensational stage victory?
Standing on the pedals, Arensman started the climb to Luchon superbagnères. Behind him, the classification men and Jonas Vetegaard made an attack on Tadej Pogacar twice, but they did not nibble much from their backlog at Arensman. In the last hundreds of meters, it gave everything he had and gave the Netherlands a beautiful stage victory in the fog.