The Tour’s decisive stages start with a tough test that begins easily enough but has two tasty peaks to spice up the closing kilometres.
The Port de Pailhères didn’t feature before 2003 but has become a Tour favourite. It ramps up severely over a series of hairpins towards the summit, from where there’s a rapid descent into Ax-les-Thermes to the foot of the final climb.
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As it happened: major GC shake-up at Critérium du Dauphiné as race heads into the mountains
Tadej Pogačar blasts away on final climb to clinch impressive solo victory and lead -
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Tour de Suisse Women: Long solo attack lands Amber Kraak victory on stage 2
Marta Lach second, Elise Chabbey third while Marlen Reusser sixth and retains GC lead -
Critérium du Dauphiné: Tadej Pogačar decimates field on stage 6 to take overall race lead
Jonas Vingegaard distances Remco Evenepoel on summit finish
