- Tour de France: Mohoric outsprints Asgreen in drag race to stage 19 finish
Stage result
General classification
Hello and welcome to our live coverage of stage 19 of the Tour de France!
Just under an hour to go until the start of the stage in Moirans-en-Montagne.
A look at today's stage profile.
And here's the map of the day, which should be one for the fastmen.
Yesterday on stage 18 the sprint squads got it wrong and the breakaway prevailed, with Kasper Asgreen scoring Soudal-QuickStep's first win of the Tour.
A look at the GC standings heading into today's stage.
Half an hour to go to the start.
Just a few minutes now until the riders head out to roll through the neutral zone.
They're off for the 7.5km ride to the real start.
The riders continue the roll through the neutral zone.
2.5km to go until the flag drops.
Eddy Merckx with polka dot jersey wearer Giulio Ciccone and yellow jersey wearer Jonas Vingegaard at the start.
172.8km to go
Attacks and a high pace straight away.
Edvald Boasson Hagen on the move.
Victor Campenaerts going now.
165km to go
Campenaerts now getting reeled in.
162km to go
Danny van Poppel leads the next wave of attacks.
No break yet as riders continue to push on.
Peter Sagan makes a move now.
Sagan solo on an uphill rise.
Sagan caught.
Mads Pedersen and Alexey Lutsenko among the latest names to move.
150km to go
Lutsenko takes the point over the top.
The pair are seven seconds up on the peloton.
15 seconds for the two leaders.
139km to go
Splits in the peloton and Adam Yates is on the wrong side of them.
Pedersen and Lutsenko now caught.
And now the riders go uphill again.
133km to go
Riders continue to push on off the front. Nils Politt leading the latest moves.
123km to go
Another hill now.
Julian Alaphilippe now among the riders giving it a go.
Politt, Haig, Benoot, Campenaerts, Zimmermann, Trentin, Haig, Alaphilippe, Barguil, Pedersen off the front.
20 seconds for that group now.
116km to go
30 seconds now.
Over a minute now as the peloton slows down.
Israel-Premier Tech trying to make moves in the peloton now but it might be too late.
108km to go
1:10 to the break while the dropped riders are 2:55 down.
A look at the break of the day.
100km to go
Israel, Uno-X, and EF still working in the peloton after missing the move.
The gap to the break is holding here, while the peloton of dropped riders is now at 4:30 down.
The front of the peloton.
90km to go
The German takes a bike from Shimano neutral service but there's a problem with that too. He tries three of their bikes before giving up.
He's out of the break as the peloton sweeps by.
Eight men in the breakaway now.
Still a minute between them and the peloton.
Politt chasing back to the peloton now.
Bora-Hansgrohe have a couple of fast finishers – Jordi Meeus and Danny van Poppel – in the peloton, so they'll switch focus now.
85km to go
Politt now back at the rear of the peloton.
The gap to the break now just under a minute.
Now down to 50 seconds and counting...
EF, Israel, Uno-X still at the head of the peloton.
75km to go
The breakaway riders pass the intermediate sprint. Pedersen pushes to the front of the group to lead the way across the line.
Back in the peloton, Jasper Philipsen leads the way to pick up some points, too.
20 points for Pedersen, seven for Philipsen. The Belgian's green jersey lead is 137 points.
70km to go
Philipsen is there with several riders from Uno-X as well his teammate Mathieu van der Poel. Pidcock, Laporte, Bettiol, Clarke, Groenewegen, Oss, Mohoric, Meeus, Naesen all in there too.
Something like 25-30 men in there, 30 seconds down on the break. The peloton is at a minute.
The split group is closing in on the breakaway.
Uno-X driving the move.
65km to go
Clarke and Campenaerts push on at the front.
36 men in the breakaway now.
60km to go
The two out front are extending their advantage. Back in the peloton, two minutes behind, Jumbo-Visma are controlling the front.
55km to go
Uno-X still at the front of the breakaway group behind the two attackers.
The peloton now at three minutes down.
Now 30 seconds for the front two.
Up and over a rise in the road and there's a downhill run coming up next.
A look at the large breakaway group – now chasing Clarke and Campenaerts.
45km to go
Clarke and Campenaerts on the move.
4:30 back to the main peloton and 10 minutes back to the 'second peloton' of dropped riders.
There's still some way to go and 34 men in the chase but things looking good so far for Clarke and Campenaerts.
Both men out front have Grand Tour stage winning pedigree, of course. Clarke has two Vuelta stage wins plus the famous Arenberg stage a year ago on his palmarès, while Campenaerts won stage 15 of the 2021 Giro from the break.
The third-category Côte d'Ivory (2.3km at 5.9%) coming up shortly. Uno-X working to close the gap and they're shaving some time off.
35km to go
Campenaerts doesn't have any teammates in the chase group. Clarke has three teammates there in Corbin Strong, Krists Neilands, and Hugo Houle. They can all sit in and save some energy should the chase make the catch.
Quite a few teams with several riders in there...
Clarke and Campenaerts start the climb at 30 seconds up on the chase.
The peloton now at 5:55 down.
32km to go
Campenaerts forges on alone, then.
A couple of Uno-X riders drop off the rear after their hard work. Still Charmig and Tiller left in the chase.
Stage 18 winner Asgreen makes a move off the front. O'Connor and Mohoric go with him.
30km to go
20 seconds back to the chase.
Campenaerts is done. He almost comes to a halt after briefly hanging on to the trio on the way up.
Meeus losing touch in the chase group.
Groenewegen near the rear of the group. Philipsen looking relatively comfortable. Meanwhile, Pedersen gives it a push at the front.
There's still some 28km left to run once the riders hit the top so a chance for sprinteres to get back in if they don't lose too much ground on the way up.
Zimmermann and Ion Izagirre off the front of the chase.
And more riders try moves. Pedersen again.
Now Pedersen leads the group up to Zimmermann and Izagirre.
O'Connor leads the attacking trio over the top, 15 seconds up on the chase.
Philipsen off the rear now, around 8-9 seconds down on the chase.
27km to go
It looks like the chase groups will come together fairly quickly. Three men still out front, however.
26km to go
The chase groups now together again as one on the way down. 30 seconds to the lead trio.
The best sprinters in the chase group – Philipsen and Groenewegen – only have one teammate each – Van der Poel and Mezgec – to chase for them.
Top descender Mohoric gaining a few bike lengths on the descent, though O'Connor is quick to make it across with Asgreen behind him.
Corbin Strong crashes on the descent. He's up and walking to get his bike.
22km to go
Laporte and Van der Poel off the front of the chase group together.
Van der Poel stuck on the wheel and seemingly unwilling to do any work, though.
Philipsen and Pedersen now chasing across to Laporte. Van der Poel had already dropped back.
23 seconds to the leaders.
So often in these situations we see a small lead group work well together all the way to the line while the much larger chase group can't get it together.
Now Trentin and Bettiol attack. Only a handful of teams have more than one rider, and fewer still have a top sprinter, so there's not a huge incentive to help Philipsen and Groenewegen to the line.
17km to go
Zimmermann now goes across to Bettiol, Trentin, Van der Poel.
Jumbo, Jayco, Uno-X trying accelerations behind.
15km to go
The three men on the attack out front.
A puncture for Warren Barguil at a disastrous time. He drops out of the chase group.
Now the group behind Van der Poel's chase quartet has blown apart...
Asgreen, O'Connor, Mohoric still working well out front. 17 seconds to the chase.
Nine minutes back to the peloton, by the way.
13km to go
O'Connor, Mohoric, Asgreen chased by Van der Poel, Philipsen, Laporte, Pidcock, Bettiol, Zimmermann, Pedersen, Mezgec, Trentin.
11km to go
55 seconds to the rest of the break.
It's very doable with just over 10km left to run, though the time gap doesn't seem to be going in the right direction for the chasers.
10km to go
Three up front, nine behind. They're the only men left in contention for the win now.
28 seconds now.
8km to go
The three teams represented out front have won stages already in this Tour, of course. AG2R with Felix Gall in Courchevel, Bahrain with Wout Poels and Pello Bilbao, and QuickStep with Asgreen just yesterday.
7km to go
Jumbo-Visma lead the peloton at over 10 minutes back.
It looks like these three men will be contesting the stage win today.
5km to go
Jasper Philipsen seems to briefly complain to Mads Pedersen in the chase.
3km to go
It's between the front three now.
2km to go
The leaders race down a tree-lined road towards the flamme rouge.
1km to go
You'd say that O'Connor is the third-favourite in a sprint here.
Asgreen on the front at 600 metres to go.
O'Connor leaves a small gap.
The Australian winds up and goes for it at 500 metres to go!
Asgreen right to his wheel as he goes past.
O'Connor on the front at 250 to go.
Asgreen comes past!
Mohoric pulling alongside in the dying metres!
It's a photo finish...
Finish
He just about edged it over Asgreen at the line.
O'Connor third.
Philipsen gets past Pedersen for fourth place at 39 seconds down.
What a stage!
Mohoric won that by a tiny margin on the bike throw to the line.
Mohoric pips Asgreen to the stage win.
The photo finish. So close!
An emotional Mohoric after his stage win today.
Meanwhile, the peloton still rolling to the finish. Jumbo-Visma leading them at 2km to go, well over 10 minutes down.
That stage was only three hours 31 minutes long, the second-shortest road stage of the Tour. It felt a lot longer than that (not in a bad way, of course, just that so much happened)...
Jumbo-Visma lead the peloton home at 13:43 down.
There'll be no change in the GC today, aside from Tom Pidcock gaining around 13 minutes. He should go from 16th to 13th overall in the standings.
Barely separable on the line and just after it too. Mohoric and Asgreen shortly after finishing the stage.
That was Mohoric's third Tour de France stage win, of course. He won from long days in the break in Le Creusot and Libourne two years ago, too.
Race leader Jonas Vingegaard crosses the line safely, his yellow jersey still intact.
A look back at the tense final kilometre of today's stage...
Here's a selection of what Mohoric said after winning today's stage...
That was the fastest stage of this year's Tour and reportedly the fifth-fastest ever. 49.1kph.
No change in the jerseys today – Vingegaard, Philipsen, Ciccone, Pogacar remain in yellow, green, polka dots, and white ahead of stage 20.
Finally, here's a look ahead to tomorrow's penultimate stage to Le Markstein. The final mountain test of the Tour de France ahead of Sunday's finale in Paris.
That's coming up tomorrow along with more day-long live coverage. Stay tuned this evening for news from the ground after stage 19, too.
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