Stage 14

The road

At the start

The day the pink jersey changes

Afonso Eulálio has held the maglia rosa for nine days and defends it by thirty-three seconds from Jonas Vingegaard, 2:03 from Thymen Arensman. Today leaves him nowhere to hide: 133 kilometres out of Aosta, 4,350 metres of climbing, the Cat.1 Saint-Barthélémy inside the first twenty and a finish at 1,793 metres in Pila. Visma say the Dane rode the first week ill, and is well again.

How it was won

1. 1115 km to go

   A 21-man break over Saint-Barthélémy

   The brutal early Cat.1 Saint-Barthélémy launches a huge move of twenty-one riders, Movistar and Narváez well represented, with Visma content to hold a watching brief.

2. 215 km to go

   Visma's knock-out pursuit

   On the long grind toward Pila an implacable Visma squad piles on the pressure, hunting down the dangerous break in what looks like a pre-planned demolition of the GC.

3. 39 km to go

   Kuss detonates the group

   Nine kilometres from the top Sepp Kuss accelerates and the damage is severe — race leader Eulálio is inched out the back and, more surprisingly, O'Connor cracks too.

4. 45 km to go

   Vingegaard's coup on Pila

   With 4.6km to go Vingegaard attacks and there is simply no response; expected or not, the rest are mere extras as the Dane powers up the sun-drenched slopes alone.

5. 5At the line

   The maglia rosa changes hands

   Vingegaard wins by 49 seconds over Gall to seize the race lead, Eulálio surrendering the pink jersey after a courageous nine-day defence.

The result