Stage 12 route updates with Pogacar, Vingegaard and Healy set for fireworks in the Pyrenees - The Tour de France hits the high mountains with a feast of climbing in the Pyrenees, finishing on the summ

Tadej Pogacar's Tour de France hopes suffered a blow on Sunday as the Slovenian's key domestique Joao Almeida withdrew following a crash on Friday.

The first week of the Tour de France has been packed with action, but after ten intense days of racing, one thing is clear: performance in pro cycling doesn’t pay nearly as well as you’d think. According to the official jury report after stage 10,

Two days later, on stage four to Rouen, Vingegaard resembled one of the world’s best puncheurs, as well as one of its best climbers. Following Pogacar’s attack in the closing kilometres, Vingegaard produced the best one-minute power effort of his career, matching the Slovenian’s famed acceleration.

Tadej Pogacar may be concentrating intensely on winning his fourth Tour de France, but in the middle of Saturday's stage eight he was just as focused on how his partner Urska Zigart was performing in the Giro d'Italia Women.