Tour de France 2022: stage 14 to Mende – live!

144km to go: Having welcomed five blow-ins including Michael Matthews into the fold, our breakaway group is now 23-strong. They are – deap breath – Marc Soler (UAE Team Emirates), Daniel Martínez (Ineos Grenadiers), Benoît Cosnefroy (Ag2r-Citröen), Felix Grossschartner, Lennard Kämna and Patrick Konrad (Bora-Hansgrohe), Gregor Mühlberger (Movistar), Simon Geschke (Cofidis), Luis Leon Sanchez (Bahrain Victorious), Stefan Küng and Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Louis Meintjes (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), Alberto Bettiol, Neilson Powless and Rigoberto Urán (EF Education-EasyPost), Andreas Kron (Lotto-Soudal), Bauke Mollema and Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo), Jakob Fuglsang, Krists Neilands and Michael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech), Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco) and Franck Bonnamour (B&B Hotels-KTM)

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163km to go: The attacks are coming thick and fast at the front of the main bunch, while the Roglic group of 35 riders toils almost two minutes behind. Cycling alone, Caleb Ewan is now almost seven minutes behind and surely enduring the mother of all existential crises.

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1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 50hrs 47mins 34secs

2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 22secs

3. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 26secs

4. Romain Bardet (Fra/DSM) +2mins 35secs

5. Adam Yates (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +3mins 44secs

6. Nairo Quintana (Col/Arkea Samsic) +3mins 58secs

7. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +4mins 07secs

8. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +7mins 39secs

9. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +9mins 32secs

10. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Bora-Hansgrohe) +10mins 06secs

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Danish sprinter Mads Pedersen, of Trek-Segafredo, took victory in the 13th stage from Le Bourg d’Oisans to Saint-Étienne, after a high-powered seven-rider breakaway dissolved on the rolling roads west of the Rhône. Jeremy Whittle reports from Saint-Étienne.

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Another day for the breakaway specialists, writes WIlliam Fotheringham in his stage-by-stage guide, with a monstrously steep uphill finish on the airfield at Mende, where the Briton Steve Cummings won in 2015. The same large group of riders as the day before will try to make the winning move; the winner will be a strong climber such as Adam Yates.

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Key events:

122km to go: The gap from the leaders to the peloton is out to 7min 26sec. Caleb Ewan is over 16 minutes off the pace but at least has his Lotto Soudal teammates Frederik Frison, Reinhardt Janse Van Rensburg and Tim Wellens for company.

123km to go: During a long overdue and welcome lull in today’s stage, we bring you news that Team Alpecin-Deceuninck received two fines yesterday. The first was for aiding Lotto-Soudal rider Caleb Ewan who drafted behind one of their cars as he tried to rejoin the peloton following his crash and the second was for “failing to respect the instructions of the organiser or commissaires” – specifically the commisaire who pulled alongside them on a motorbike to remonstrate and gesticulate furiously when he saw what they were up to.

“I don’t know why that man was making such a fuss,” said Michel Cornelisse directeur sportif of Alpecin-Deceuninck. “I see crashes happen all week and riders are allowed to return behind the car, so I thought ‘Why not?’ There was no team car around [for Ewan] so I wanted to take him.

“Then the commissaire came and I tried to accelerate but there were two police motorbikes in front of me. I was already going at 80kph. I couldn’t drive faster there. Ewan was almost at the cars, so I don’t know why the guy was so upset.”

To add insult to the knee and shoulder injuries he suffered in his crash, Ewan was also fined and received a time penalty for illegal drafting behind a team car.

132km to go: Our large breakaway group have a lead of 6min 51sec on the peloton.

After a 40km battle at 43.7km/h, 23 riders have made the break@BORAhansgrohe, @EFprocycling, @IsraelPremTech, @GroupamaFDJ & @TrekSegafredo managed to put multiple riders at the front to chase victory towards Mende #TDFdata #TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/15SSEAfqQG

— letourdata (@letourdata) July 16, 2022

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140km to go: Following the intermediate sprint, the breakaway group briefly sheds four riders including Simmons and Fuglsang, who have to work hard to catch up. Caleb Ewan watch: he is 14min 09sec behind the leaders.

142km to go: As the yellow jersey group assimilates the Roglic group, which has caught up with them, the gap goes out to 4min 35sec. The riders in the main bunch are sorting themselves out, taking time to stock up on water bottles and have a drink. At the front of the race, Michael Matthews takes the intermediate sprint points.

Today’s breakaway is formed

148km to go: Our 18-strong breakaway quickly open a gap of 2min 20sec on the yellow jersey group. The Roglic group are a further minute behind. There is another group of 14 riders, including Chris Froome, a minute-and-a-half behind them. Caleb Ewan is riding alone, seven minutes behind the group of stragglers and over 11 minutes off the general pace.

Riders making their way through the stage. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images

151km to go: We appear to have our breakaway, a gaggle of 18 riders who have opened a gap of 47 seconds on the yellow jersey group on the second climb of the day.

153km to go: In the polka-dot jersey, Simon Geschke leads the chase to hunt down Bonnampour to try and be first over the climb but is narrowly beaten by a determined Quinn Simmons, who pedals for all he’s worth despite not being in the hunt for the King of the Mountains jersey.

154km to go: Caruso is reeled in and B&B Hotels-KTM rider Franck Bonnampour, the winner of last year’s combativity award, launches an attack on the Cat 3 Côte de Châtaignier.

155km to go: Spare a thought for Caleb Ewan, who is soldiering on despite being almost 10 minutes and eight kilometres down on the stage leaders.

159km to go: Following the withdrawal of Warren Barguil, who tested positive for Covid and didn’t start yesterday’s stage, his compatriot Victor Lafay abandoned during stage 13, leaving 157 of the original 176 starters to sign on for today’s stage.

162km to go: The peloton is seriously strung out and Bahrain Victorious rider Damiano Caruso launches an escape bid and opens a gap of a few seconds.

Roglic and Ewan among the early toilers

169km to go: The bunch is travelling at a ferocious lick, which is bad news for Caleb Ewan. Nursing an injured knee, he’s now 5min 26sec behind. “I felt really good today actually,” he said foillowing yesterday’s staghe. “That’s why we started to commit our guys to controlling the breakaway and they were doing a really good job. They never got too far ahead, but yeah, I don’t know what happened in the corner.

“My knee is really sore and my shoulder is pretty sore. I broke my collarbone last year, so hopefully that’s alright. Once I went down I didn’t feel so good anymore, and after a big chase to get back on before the final climb, I had nothing left really.”

French gendarmes secure a perimeter as Lotto Soudal team’s Australian rider Caleb Ewan nurses his injured knee before remounting following his crash yesterday. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images

175km to go: We join today’s stage 17 kilometres in and there are already several talking points after a fast and slightly chaotic start. Following his crash yesterday, Caleb Ewan has already been dropped and is already nearly five minutes off the pace. One suspects the Autralian sprinter is not long for this year’s Tour.

Primoz Roglic has been dropped from the main group and isin a group 1min 40sec behind the main bunch. Nils Powless and Juul Jensen launched a break but have been reeled in following an attack by Tadaj Pogacar.

Today’s weather: The mercury is expected to hit 40 degrees celsius on today’s stage to Mende, with extra measures being taken to help riders cope with the searing heat on this long, extremely testing stage.

Following his second place finish in yesterday’s stage, Fred Wright said it was easier being in the seven-man breakaway as there was an endless supply of cold water and ice available for he and his fellow escapees to help keep themselves cool.

The sight of cyclists stuffing ice socks down the back of their jerseys has been a common one and in the wake of warnings from the French met office that a heat wave is expected in the south-west until Tuesday, race organisers and local fire services will be pulling out all the stops to help keep the riders and the melting roads on which they are travelling as cool as possible with tens of thousands of gallons of water.

Jumbo-Visma rider Tiesj Benoot douses his teammates with water. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

In third place on GC at 2min 26sec, Welsh rider Geraint Thomas (Ineos Grenadiers) pedals his way to the start of stage 14. Photograph: Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images

5 years later, the peloton is back in Mende! The finish at the summit of the Côte de la Croix Neuve should guarentee spectacle!😍

5 ans après, le peloton est de retour à Mende ! L'arrivée au sommet de la Côte de la Croix Neuve devrait nous garantir du spectacle !😍#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/7BMSrqmZGH

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 16, 2022

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5 years later, the peloton is back in Mende! The finish at the summit of the Côte de la Croix Neuve should guarentee spectacle!😍

5 ans après, le peloton est de retour à Mende ! L’arrivée au sommet de la Côte de la Croix Neuve devrait nous garantir du spectacle !😍#TDF2022 pic.twitter.com/7BMSrqmZGH

— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 16, 2022

In second place overall, the reigning Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar wears the white jersey for b est young rider. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

One of few bearded riders in the peloton, Simon Geschke is in the polka dot jersey for best climber. Photograph: REX/Shutterstock

Barring accident or illness, Wout van Aert has as good as guaranteed himself this year’s green jersey. Photograph: Pierre Teysott/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock