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Sprint | Fresse-sur-Moselle (37.2 km)

Points at finish, kom sprint (2) ballon d'alsace (24 km), kom sprint (2) col de la croix des moinats (56.5 km), kom sprint (2) col de grosse pierre (64.9 km), kom sprint (3) col de la schlucht (79.4 km), kom sprint (1) petit ballon (108.2 km), kom sprint (1) col du platzerwasel (125.3 km), youth day classification, team day classification, race information.

• Date: 22 July 2023
• Start time: 13:45
• Avg. speed winner: 38.64 km/h
• Race category: ME - Men Elite
• Distance: 133.5 km
• Points scale: GT.A.Stage
• UCI scale: UCI.WR.GT.A.Stage
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• ProfileScore: 303
• Vert. meters: 3471
• Departure: Belfort
• Arrival: Le Markstein
• Race ranking: 1
• Startlist quality score: 1584
• Won how: Sprint of 5 riders
• Avg. temperature: 22 °C

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Tour de France 2023: Jonas Vingegaard to win as Pogacar claims stage 20 – as it happened

Despite Thibaut Pinot’s heroics, Tadej Pogacar won the stage while Jonas Vingegaard wrapped up victory barring accident or incident in tomorrow’s final stage

• Read Jeremy Whittle’s stage 20 report
• 22 Jul 2023 Pogacar takes stage while Vingegaard seals win
• 22 Jul 2023 The top five on General Classification
• 22 Jul 2023 The top five on stage 20
• 22 Jul 2023 Tadej Pogacar wins stage 20!
• 22 Jul 2023 Thibaut Pinot is dropped ...
• 22 Jul 2023 Tadej Pogacar attacks!
• 22 Jul 2023 Giulio Ciccone is King of the Mountains
• 22 Jul 2023 Carlos Rodriguez crashes!
• 22 Jul 2023 They're off and racing on stage 20 ...
• 22 Jul 2023 The stage 20 roll-out is under way
• 22 Jul 2023 Now that's what I call humility ...
• 22 Jul 2023 Who's wearing what jersey?
• 22 Jul 2023 Mohoric wins while Vingegaard faces more question
• 22 Jul 2023 Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering (133.5km)

Pogacar takes stage while Vingegaard seals win

Stage 20 report: Tadej Pogacar won the final mountain stage of the 2023 Tour de France to Le Markstein, as Jonas Vingegaard sealed back-to-back wins in the French race, barring accident or illness between now and the end of tomorrow’s stage in Paris.

More from Tadej Pogacar: “Asked what his worst memory of this year’s Tour will be, he laughs. “Probably when [his teammate] Marc Soler kept looking back at me on the Col de la Loze with his scary eyes.”

Tadej Pogacar speaks: “Today I finally feel like myself again and it was just really good from the start to the finish to feel good again after many days suffering,” he says. “To pull if off in the finish line, I am super, super happy.”

Upon being asked if he might like another week added to the Tour he laughs and says “No, let’s go home.” He goes on to thank Adam Yates for his lead-out for the final sprint.

The top five on General Classification

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) 79hr 16min 38sec

Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) +7min 29sec

Adam Yates (UAE Emirates) +10min 56sec

Simon Yates (Jayco-Ulula) +12min 23sec

Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) +12min 57sec

The top five on stage 20

Tadaj Pogacar (UAE EMirates) 3hr 27min 18sec

Felix Gall (AG2R-Citreon)

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma)

Simon Yates (Jayco-AlUla))

Adam Yates (UAE Emirates)

Tadej Pogacar wins stage 20!

Vingegaard launchers an attack with 300m to go but Pogacar pulls clear of the man in the yellow jersey and wins by several bike-lengths. Behind him in the yellow jersey, Vingegaard rolls over the line and will be be confirmed a worthy winner of the Tour de France in Paris tomorrow barring serious illness or an accident.

1km to go: You’d fancy Pogacar to win the stage from here but it’s no certainty ...

2km to go: Adam Yates is riding for Pogacar at the front of the lead quintet.

3km to go: Simon and Adam Yates catch up with our lead trio. Four of the top five on GC are also in the top five of this stage. Simon Yates takes over at the front. Barguil and Pinot are 35 seconds back. Rafal Majka, Carlos Rodriguez, Jai Hindley and a few others are 48 seconds back.

6km to go: Gall and Vingegaard are deep in conversation with Pogacar right behind them. Vingegaard keeps peeking over his shoulder to see what the Slovenian is up to. “Do you think he does that when he goes to bed at night?” asks Robbie McEwen on Eurosport. “Behind the door, under the bed … where’s Tadej?”

7km to go: Gall leads the front three over the top of the final climb of this year’s Tour. Vingegaard and Pogacar are keeping tabs on each other while the Yates brothers are just 14 seconds behind. Could one of them nick the stage? Cofidis rider Victor Lafay has abandoned.

9km to go: Our lead trio, Pogacar, Gall and Pogacar, peddle onwards and upwards, with the AG2R-Citreon rider leading the way. Behind them, a gendarme on a motorbike is doing his utmost to control the exuberant crowd with blasts of his siren and an occasional shove.

10km to go: Gall is leading our front trio up the climb, when you could be forgiven for thinking he’d tuck in behind Vingegaard and Pogacar and let them do the donkey work at the front. Adam and Simon Yates are about to pass Pinot, Barguil and Pidcock. Simon Yates has moved up to fourth from fifth on the virtual GC leaderboard. Tom Pidcock is now trying to keep Carlos Rodriguez, fourth overall on GC, in touch with the Yates brothers.

Thibaut Pinot is dropped ...

11km to go: The dream is dead but let the record show that Thibaut Pinot went down swinging haymakers. He’s been dropped along with Pidcock and Barguil. Felix Gall, Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar lead the stage.

12km to go: With four kilometres to the top of the climb, we have a lead group of six: Pinot, Gall, Pidcock, Pogacar, Vingegaard and Barguil. The Yates brothers are 20 seconds behind them.

13km to go: Pidcock and Barguil catch Pinot, with Vingegaard, Pogacar and Gall looming in the rear-view mirror.

Tadej Pogacar attacks!

The Slovenian attacks off the front of the yellow jersey group and Jonas Vingegaard latches on to his wheel. They’re joined by Felix Gall.

13km to go: Onwards and upwards goes Pinot, with Tom Pidcock and Warguil just 12 seconds behind him. More worryingly, the yellow jersey group is on the hunt and the gap is down to a minute.

15km to go: Should he make it to the top first, Pinot’s work won’t be finished. There are another 8.2km of knobbly up-and-down to negotiate before the finish line.

17km to go: Pinot puts another 10 seconds into the yellow jersey group on the descent with the final climb of this year’s Tour looming. It’s the brutish category one Col du Platzerwasel: 1,193m high, 7.1km in length and with an average gradient of 8.4%.

“It’s a series of really steep step-ups with gradients in the red zone and gradients in the black zone,” says Robbie McEwen on Eurosport. Pinot hits the climb with an advantage of 1min 10sec over the yellow jersey group.

20km to go: Wearing the same Groupama-FDJ colours as Pinot, David Gaudu crashes on the descent but remounts and continues. Sepp Kuss has lost eight minutes and looks a certainty to exit the top 10 on GC.

21km to go: “It could be his last time around here and it’s Thibaut’s Turbo Time!” writes Bill Preston. “He’s getting a proper stomp on and making a real show of thrilling heroics. A win would make his year, and maybe he won’t retire. I hope he doesn’t.”

24km to go: Jumbo Visma are at the front of the yellow jersey group, with Wilco Kelderman leading the way and Jonas Vingegaard tucked in behind him.

27km to go: Allez Thibaut! Riding on his home roads and fuelled by fan fervour, Pinot maintains his 90-second lead as he crests the top of the Petit Ballon. There are thousands of fans cheering him on as he begins the treacherous descent. How must he be feeling?

28km to go: Pinot has a 20 second lead over Tom Pidcock and Warren Barguil, and a lead of 1min 20sec over the yellow jersey group, who are about to swallow up Giulio Ciccone. Pinot is two kilometres from the top of the climb and a massive, rapturous crowd are showering him with encouragement and … well, love. It’s quite an emotional sight.

29km to go: The yellow jersey group has been obliterated on this climb, while Pinot has a 14-second gap over Tom Pidcock. The French crowd are absolutely loving the sight of their homeboy Pinot in first place on this stage and the rider is approaching the corner named in his honour that is wedged with his fans. The fans are 20 people deep in places on the roadside but everyone is behaving impeccably.

30km to go: Thibaut Pinot strikes out on his own, leaving his fellow escapee in his wake as he continues toi make his way up the mountain. He may not get the fairytale win he hopes for but if it doesn’t happen for him, this warrior will certainly make sure he is carried out on his shield. “I don’t think there’ll be any cadeaux on this stage,” says Sean Kelly on Eurosport. ‘Cadeaux’ being the French word for ‘gifts’.

32km to go: With more than six kilometres of the final climb to go, Jonas Vingegaard is getting isolated in the yellow jersey group as, one by one, his Jumbo-Visma teammates buckle under the pressure being applied by Tadej Pogacar’s UAE Emirates team. They seem desperate to win today’s stage. The gap to the Thibaut quintet is now under a minute.

32km to go: Back in the yellow jersey group, UAE Emirates rider Marc Soler takes up position at the front and is joined by his teammate Rafal Majka. The gap is 1min 27sec.

33km to go: With 8.7km to go up the latest climb, the front group has splintered as Thibaut piles on the pressure. Tom Pidcock, Warren Barguil, Giulio Ciccone and Valentin Madouas are still with him. Madouas is a teammate of Pinot’s.

35km to go: The next climb is the Petit Ballon, which doesn’t look particularly petit from where I’m sitting. It’s 9.3km in length, plateaus at 1,163m and has an average gradient of 8%.

The lead group have a lead of 1min 19sec over the yellow jersey group, while the stragglers in today’s green jersey grupetto are 9min 50sec off the pace. At the roadside, the crowds are out in force to support their local hero Thibaut Pinot, who is among the 10 leaders. There are thousands out to cheer him on at a certain section of the course.

50km to go: “I’ve been thinking about the scepticism surrounding Vingegaard’s dominance and I do wonder whether he’s just head and shoulders above a relatively (and I do mean ‘relatively’) weak group of GC contenders this year,” writes Paul Weir.

“There’s no Froome any more, nor Nibali, Thomas, Quintana, Valverde, Dumoulin or Roglic. Pogacar’s build up was hindered by injury, and Bernal is still a long way short of where he was in 2019.

“Among the rest of the peloton only three other previous podium finishers started the tour: Carapaz and Bardet have abandoned and Uran is over three and a half hours down. Rodriguez and Hindley are racing their first Tour de France and the Yates brothers’ best results here came in 2016 (Adam) and 2017 (Simon): neither were expected to seriously challenge the top two.

“No-one really knew how badly affected Pogacar would be by his injury and it took until the third week for him to fall away. How much of a surprise are the time gaps from Vingegaard to everyone else, really? None of that takes away from what, as you say, has been a brilliantly entertaining race.”

I wouldn’t really disagree with any of that and am more than happy to give Vingegaard the benefit of the doubt for now, but I believe that in terms of average speeds, this has been the fifth fastest Tour de France in the race’s history.

51km to go: Following his crash earlier today, Sepp Kuss has lost four minutes on the yellow jersey group and already dropped a place in the “virtual” GC. Through no fault of his own, his chances of staying in the top 10 are not looking good with back-to-back category one climbs ahoy. Let’s hope he at least gets to finish the race as the American has had a wonderful Tour working on behalf of Jonas Vingegaard.

Giulio Ciccone is King of the Mountains

Resplendent in his polka-dot helmet, shirt, shorts, gloves and socks, the Italian crests the fourth climb of the day and guarantees that he’ll be presented with the King of the Mountains award in Paris tomorrow evening as long as he finishes the race.

He punches the air in delight as he becomes the first Italian to win that particular shirt since Claudio “El Diablo” Chiapucci in 1992. Chapeau!

56km to go: Krists Neilands is passed by a Tour moto and draws an imaginary cross in the air as he glances into the camera. He’s done.

57km to go: The riders are tackling the category three Col de la Schlucht, which is 1,139m high, 4.3km of length and has an average gradient of 5.4%.

60km to go: With their eye on a stage win, wannabe Pinot party-poopers UAE Emirates are doing the donkey work at the front of the yellow jersey group. The gap is only 1min 04sec, far less than Pinot would like.

63km to go: We have a group of 10 riders at the front of the race, Thibaut Pinot among them. He couldn’t? Could he? Fingers and toes crossed for what would be a real fairytale ending to his career.

68km to go: Giulio Ciccone is first over the top again, taking another five KOM points. If he can repeat the feat at the next climb, he is guaranteed to keep the King of the Mountains jersey. He owes his teammates Mads Pedersen and Mattias Skjelmose a big drink for the fine job they did today, helping him keep the jersey with a minimum of amount of fuss or stress.

69km to go: With the gradient at 18% on this short, sharp climb, the Ciccone group is joined by the great Thibaut Pinot, who would be an incredibly popular winner of today’s stage. The yellow jersey group is a minute back.

70km to go: Evidently suffering from the injuries he suffered in his crash, Sepp Kuss is in trouble and has been dropped. His place in the top 10 is at risk but he has over six minutes on Guillaume Martin, who is 11th on GC. “On Peacock, they are saying that Kuss went down and Rodriguez went over him,” writes Joe Pearson.

71km to go: Next up is the category two Col de Grosse Pierre and Giulio Ciccone can all but guarantee himself the polka-dot jersey if he is first over the top. He will absolutely assure himself of the iconic shirt at close of play tomorrow in Paris if he is first over the top of both it and the category three climb that follows.

76km to go: According to Eurosport, Felix Gall said this morning that his priority is to protect his place in the top 10 on General Classification rather than trying to beat Ciccone to the polka-dot jersey, a comment which must have been music to the Italian’s ears. Mind you, Gall was there or thereabouts on the first climb so he could have been bluffing, only to run out of energy since.

77km to go: Ciccone takes the points with an uncontested ride over the top of the Col de la Croix des Moinats.

78km to go: The road is narrow, somewhere between one and two cars wide, and the gap from the leaders to the yellow jersey group is 33 seconds. There are several riders on the road between the two groups. Ciccone looks set fair to take the points at the top of this climb too, to increase his advantage over Felix Gall in the KOM classification to 16 points.

79km to go: The word from the Ineos Grenadiers team car is that Carlos Roriguez is suffering no serious ill-effects following his crash. His many wounds are superficial, it seems, which is good news for him.

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Highlights: 2023 Tour de France, Stage 20

Dive into highlights from Stage 20 of the 2023 Tour de France, a 133.5-kilometer journey from Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering.

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STAMFORD, Conn. – July 13, 2023 – NBC Sports’ live coverage of the 110 th Tour de France continues this weekend live on Peacock as the Tour enters Stage 13 tomorrow, Friday, July 14.

Live coverage of Stage 13, which begins in Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne and finishes in Grand Colombier, starts tomorrow at 7 a.m. ET with the Tour de France Pre-Race Show on Peacock. Tomorrow’s live race coverage begins at 7:30 a.m. ET on Peacock.

On Sunday, July 16, live race coverage of Stage 15 begins on Peacock at 6:55 a.m. ET with NBC presenting encore coverage of the stage later that day at 1:30 p.m. ET.

Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Team Jumbo – Visma) wears the yellow jersey with the general classification lead with two-time champion and 2022 runner-up Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) in second place. American Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) heads into Stage 13 wearing the polka dot jersey as the King of the Mountains leader.

Daily live coverage of all 21 stages culminates with final stage coverage on Sunday, July 23, live on Peacock at 10 a.m. ET. NBC will present encore coverage of the final stage at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday.

Peacock streams live start-to-finish coverage of every stage of the 2023 Tour de France , featuring NBC Sports-produced coverage, as well as commentary from the world feed. Peacock will also feature full-stage replays, highlights, stage recaps, rider interviews, and more.

To sign up and watch every minute of live action from the 2023 Tour de France, click here .

Peacock’s expansive programming offers the most live sports of any SVOD service in the United States , including live coverage of Sunday Night Football , Big Ten football (beginning in September), Olympic Games, MLB Sunday Leadoff , Premier League, Notre Dame Football, NASCAR, NTT IndyCar Series, and much more. Peacock also offers daily sports programming on the NBC Sports channel.

COMMENTATORS

NBC Sports’ cycling play-by-play caller Phil Liggett , universally known as the ‘voice of cycling,’ covers his 51st Tour de France alongside analyst Bob Roll . Liggett and Roll are on-site at each stage, along with reporters Steve Porino and former professional cyclist Christian Vande Velde .

Paul Burmeister hosts daily pre-race and post-race studio coverage alongside Sam Bewley and Brent Bookwalter , who make their NBC Sports debuts as cycling analysts .

NBC SPORTS SOCIAL MEDIA

Fans can keep up with the Tour de France through NBC Sports’ social media platforms throughout the race, including exclusive behind-the-scenes photos, interviews, video clips, up-to-date news reports and stories from around the cycling world through the NBC Sports Cycling Facebook page and @NBCSNCycling on Twitter. In addition, fans can visit NBCSports.com/cycling for a live stream schedule, stage maps, results, routes and more.

NBC SPORTS’ 2023 TOUR DE FRANCE SCHEDULE

(subject to change, all times ET)***All live coverage on NBC and USA Network is also available on the NBC Sports app:

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Giro d'Italia stage 19 Live - A big chance for the breakaway

Tour de france 2023 - stage 20 preview.

Saturday, July 22, 2023: Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering, 133.5km

Stage 20 : Belfort to Le Markstein Fellering

Date: July 22, 2023

Distance: 133.5km

Stage type: Mountain

Stage 20 is the penultimate day of racing at the 2023 Tour de France and as Race Director Christian Prudhomme described it, “features an Alsatian menu that is likely to cause indigestion”. 

Race leader Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) just referred to Saturday's ride with six classified climbs as "really explosive".

The main course is 30km shorter than Friday's flat stage, but is packed with six categorised climbs and 3,600 metres of climbing. Belfort, which marks a 32nd appearance in the Tour, is only six kilometres away from the first climb, the Ballon d’Alsace (11.5km, 5.3%). 

Attacks can then fly over a series of five climbs over the next 55km, two of those categorised - Col de la Croix des Moinats (5.2km, 7%) and Col de Grosse Pierre (3.2km, 8%). After a long descent into Munster, riders tackle the Petit Ballon (9.3km, 8./1%) and the Platzerwasel (7.1km, 8.4%)  for the final 8.5km to a new finish on the slopes of the Markstein. 

Probably as impactful as the profile across the 133.5 kilometres is the fact that the roads pass Thibaut Pinot ’s beloved Vosges en route to Le Markstein, with the name of the Groupama-FDJ rider sure to be daubed all over each of the climbs. In his native Mélisey, a big screen has been installed for the occasion in the local sports complex. 

"On Saturday, the stage is on roads I know by heart, so there's still a lot of motivation,” Pinot said. “There are a lot of emotions, I'm thinking about a lot of things. I think I've come full circle.”

It seems all but inevitable that Pinot, currently 12th overall, will be aboard the early break, though it’s less clear if his legs will carry him to a valedictory stage win on home roads.

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Team UAE’s Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar wearing the overall leader’s pink jersey lifts up with bicycle as he celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the 20th stage of the 107th Giro d’Italia cycling race, 184km between Alpago and Bassano del Grappa on May 25, 2024. (Photo by FABIO FERRARI / POOL / AFP) (Photo by FABIO FERRARI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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BASSANO DEL GRAPPA, Italy — Twenty down, one to go.

Two-time Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar all but secured the Giro d’Italia on Saturday on his debut in the Italian grand tour.

Pocagar once again destroyed his rivals in the mountains to claim a sixth stage win out of 20 and extend his already considerable advantage to nearly 10 minutes overall.

He has only Sunday’s mainly ceremonial ride in Rome to confirm the triumph.

“I have never been in Rome before but I’m going to enjoy it for sure,” Pogacar said with a smile.

The Slovenian cycling star has dominated the Giro in style.

He was all smiles as he soloed to victory following an attack on Monte Grappa. The UAE Team Emirates rider sat up, waved to the crowds as they roared him on, stretched out his arms and bowed as he crossed the line.

Pogacar finished the 184-kilometer (114-mile) leg from Alpago to Bassano del Grappa 2 minutes, 7 seconds ahead of Valentin Paret-Peintre and Daniel Martinez.

That saw him extend his overall winning advantage to 9:56 over Martinez and 10:24 over third-placed Geraint Thomas.

Pogacar is attempting to the Giro-Tour double this year, a feat that hasn’t been achieved since 1998 by Marco Pantani.

“We had the pink jersey from stage 2, a lot of obligations every day, a lot of things to do all day … today was just another test before summer to see how it is,” Pogacar said.

“I wanted to finish the Giro with good mentality, good shape and I think I achieved that. I will enjoy after the Giro and then good preparation.”

Pogacar raised his pink bicycle above his head in celebration.

In all reality, the job was finished about a week ago, so dominant has Pogacar been in his first Giro.

He had said he wanted to win the penultimate stage and there was a feeling of inevitability when he set off less than a third of the way into the second ascent of the first-category climb to Monte Grappa.

There were 5.4 kilometers of the brutal climb remaining and Pogacar was 49 seconds behind leader Giulio Pellizzari, who has emerged as a potential future star at this race despite being the youngest in the Giro.

Pogacar caught Pellizzari within 800 meters and, cheered on by huge crowds and miles ahead of everyone else, he crested Monte Grappa with a lead of 1:35 before stretching that on the mostly downhill finish.

The race will transfer to Rome for the largely processional 125-kilometer (78-mile) final leg through the streets of the capital, ending near the Colosseum.