Stage 14

The road

How it was won

1. 185 km to go

   The Soudet starts the damage

   The long Pyrenean climb begins to shed breakaway riders, and more will go in the valley on the approach to the Marie-Blanque.

2. 239 km to go

   Yates goes up the road

   Simon Yates gets away and will start the Aubisque with a minute and a half — an audacious ride that will leapfrog him over both Contador and Valverde on GC.

3. 319 km to go

   Six jump the descent

   Bakelants, Bennett, Elissonde, Silin, Bernard and De Clercq attack toward the end of the descent and carry thirty seconds to the foot of the Col d'Aubisque.

4. 49 km to go

   Gesink jumps

   Elissonde attacks first on the climb. Back in the fifteen-rider chase Robert Gesink sees the gap opening, makes his move, sheds Moreno, López and Pardilla, sweeps past Bernard and De Clercq — and attacks again the instant he reaches the leaders.

5. 57 km to go

   Quintana probes, Froome refuses

   Halfway up the Aubisque the red jersey tests, then attacks properly and makes a true selection. König helps Froome shut it down and then the old foes are alone with Contador and Chaves — until Chaves storms clear for half a minute and Contador, having gone himself, cracks completely.

6. 6At the line

   Gesink's first, and nothing between the big two

   Robert Gesink opens the sprint confidently and holds off Elissonde and Silin for the first Grand Tour stage win of his career. Below him Quintana throws one last punch inside the final hundred metres and Chris Froome is alive to it; they cross with nothing between them.

The result