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Riders tackle seven categorised climbs on 191.5km route
Stage 12 report: Hirschi heroics earn maiden stage win
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11.23am BST
176km to go: Remi Cavagna and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R-La Mondiale), Simon Geschke (CCC) and Dan Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation) lead, while Thomas De Gendt is trying to bridge the 17-second gap from the peloton, which has already shed several sprinters including – I think – Caleb Ewan, Sam Bennett and Edvald Boasson Hagen.
11.19am BST
177km to go: Julian Alaphilippe, Dan Martin and Alessandro De Marchi have joined the breakaway, where Alaphilippe is putting the hammer down in a bid to make sure they stay away. Nils Politt, Niccolo Bonifazio and Tejay van Garderen can’t keep up and are quickly dropped. This is a brutal start to a brutal stage. Continue reading...