After nine tense and often tactical stages, the first summit finish of the Tour de France promised a showdown between the top teams, defending champion Tadej Pogačar's UAE Team Emirates-XRG and challenger Jonas Vingegaard's Visma-Lease a Bike.
And it didn't disappoint, with Visma riding aggressively all stage to put UAE under pressure and taking its first win of the race with Simon Yates. But even isolated late, Pogačar refused to crack and even put in a late dig of his own to neutralize other moves as he and Vingegaard crossed the line together. Stage 6 winner Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) was the main animator of the day and although he was dropped on the final climb, his advantage at the finish was enough to put him in the yellow jersey of race leader by 30 seconds over Pogačar. Healy is the first Irish rider since Stephen Roche in 1987 to wear the yellow jersey.
[race_result id=17 stage_id=86005 count=10 gc=0 year=2025] [race_result id=17 stage_id=86005 count=10 gc=10 year=2025]How it happened
- With eight categorized climbs – but none more than about 5 km long – and more than 4,000 meters of climbing, stage 10, the first true summit finish of the Tour, was always meant to be a breakaway day, and the race obliged. After an initial flurry of attacks, a group eventually numbering 29 riders and comprising 16 teams got away early in the stage. Among the participants were Healy, Yates, Bahrain Victorious' Lenny Martinez, and Jayco-AlUla's Ben O'Connor, whose knee was finally starting to feel better. The sprinters were quickly in the grupetto.
Once the attacks started to heat up, the grupetto formed quickly.
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