Tour de France 2019: stage 14 takes race up to finish on Tourmalet – live!
20 July 2019 11:52
Updates from the 117.5km mountain stageAlaphilippe extends lead with time trial winEmail Simon or tweet @Simon_Burnton 12.52pm BST Apparently there is a demonstration at Ossun, four kilometres into the stage, so the riders will be chaperoned through that before the racing gets under way. 12.46pm BST Due to as-yet unknown “technical issues” the start has been slightly shifted, so there will be less than 117.5km of actual racing. 12.36pm BST The general classification looks something like this:#TDF2019 GC ahead of today's crucial mountain stage1 Alaphilippe2 Thomas @ 1.263 Kruijswijk 2.124 Mas 2.445 Bernal 2.526 Buchmann 3.047 Pinot 3.228 Uran 3.549 Quintana 3.5510 A Yates 3.5511 D Martin 4.1513 Fuglsang 4.2915 Porte 4.4417 Bardet 5.4618 Landa 6.00 pic.twitter.com/oFUiv45aUH 12.31pm BST The rollout is about to start rolling. The Pyrenees are looking gorgeous this afternoon, which is just as well given the number of lingering helicopter shots we’re going to be treated to before the day’s out. 12.29pm BST So, stage 14. Tarbes to Col du Tourmalet, and the first classic climb of this year’s Tour. Just the 117.5km, but they’re hard yards: the category four climb to Cote de Labatmale, the category one Col du Soulor, and the hors-categorie, 19km-long final climb, with a steepest climb of 13.5%, are all on the route. It all looks something like this:Stage 14 / Étape 14 Tarbes Tourmalet Barèges? 13:30 CET > 17:02 CET Pierrefitte-Nestalas?? 1xHC, 1x1??c, 1x4??c#TDF2019 pic.twitter.com/iyihhMaM91 Related: Alaphilippe extends Tour lead over Thomas with stunning time-trial win Continue readingread full article
