Tour De France 2025: Arensman Holds Off Pogacar And Vingegaard For Solo Stage Win

Thymen Arensman rescued an different anonymous Tour de France for Ineos Grenadiers pinch a solo shape triumph successful nan last Pyrenean stage, to Superbagnères successful nan Haute Garonne.

The Dutch rider, a adjacent 2nd to Simon Yates connected nan shape to Puy-de-Sancy, entered nan last 5 kilometres almost 2 minutes up of his closest rivals and, contempt being pursued by Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, was capable to bent connected to return his first shape triumph successful nan Tour. Pogacar added 4sec to his wide lead, now 4min 13sec up of Vingegaard.

With almost 5 1000 metres of climbing packed into 125km of racing, it was 1 of nan astir sadistic stages successful caller Tours and it took its toll, pinch Remco Evenepoel, successful 3rd spot astatine nan commencement of nan time but struggling pinch illness, nan astir high-profile casualty.

Ineos Grenadiers’ Thymen Arensman crosses nan decorativeness statement to triumph shape 14. Photograph: Jasper Jacobs/Belga Mag/AFP/Getty Images

In bedewed and misty conditions, Pogacar was happy to fto an earlier breakaway, which included Arensman, move clear, pinch Lenny Martinez, chasing yet much points successful nan King of nan Mountains classification, besides successful nan move. Crucially, nan French rider was first complete nan mammoth and mist-shrouded Col du Tourmalet and harvested capable points to move into nan polka dot jersey lead arsenic nan Tour exited nan Pyrenees.

Evenepoel, intelligibly astatine nan extremity of his statement aft Friday’s clip proceedings to Peyragudes, was drifting down good earlier nan peloton arrived astatine nan ft of nan Tourmalet, but arsenic nan 19km climb began, it became evident his title was tally and he discontinue nan Tour.

The Olympic roadworthy and time-trial champion will now not make it to Paris, segment past summertime of nan biggest successes of his career. Nor will Denmark’s Mattias Skjelmose, who collapsed aft 53km and contempt remounting, was forced to abandon, for illustration Evenepoel connected nan little slopes of nan Tourmalet.

An Ineos Grenadiers squad car deed and knocked down a spectator during nan stage, TV footage showed. The squad car was successful nan mediate of nan roadworthy to nan Col de Peyresourde, astir 200m from nan apical of nan ascent, erstwhile it struck nan spectator, who was cheering nan riders on.

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