Stage 19

The road

At the start

Poligny, and a lesson from yesterday

Kasper Asgreen beat the sprinters into Bourg-en-Bresse by a handful of metres, and today their teams will not leave it that late again. Nothing has moved on general classification: Jonas Vingegaard by 7:35 from Tadej Pogačar, Adam Yates third at 10:45. Today runs 173 kilometres past the Jura lakes to Poligny, with a category 4 climb after only twenty-four kilometres to make the fight for the break savage.

How it was won

1. 165 km to go

   Alpecin split the race

   Philipsen and Van der Poel drive a huge split from the peloton that merges with the break to form a 36-rider group, a minute and a half clear.

2. 232 km to go

   The winning three

   With 32km to go Asgreen, O'Connor and Mohorič jump clear, swallowing a flailing Campenaerts and stretching 30 seconds over the Philipsen chase.

3. 3At the line

   Poligny

   The chase can't quite coordinate, and Matej Mohorič pips Asgreen in an astounding photo finish, denying the Dane a second win by millimetres.

The result