Tour de France LIVE: Stage 13 updates as Vingegaard and Pogacar duel

80km to go: Right, this breakaway have managed to establish themselves and have carved out an advantage of about 1min 40s at this point.

It’s a big old group – listed in full below – and includes Brit Fred Wright. Michal Kwiatkowski of Ineos also in there.

Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Quentin Pacher (Groupama-FDJ), Alberto Bettiol, James Shaw (EF Education-EasyPost), Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), Matej Mohoric, Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious), Jasper Stuyven (Lidl-Trek), Adrien Petit, Mike Teunissen, Georg Zimmerman (Intermarche-Circus-Wanty), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar), Hugo Houle (Israel-PremierTech), Luca Mozzato (Arkéa-Samsic), Maxim van Gils, Pascal Eenkhoorn (Lotto-Dstny), Cees Bol, Harold Tejada (Astana Qazaqstan), Anthon Charmig (Uno-X), Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies).

Some headline-grabbing quotes from the owner of Israel Premier Tech yesterday, after he was asked about Chris Froome, their big-money signing who was left out of the Tour de France squad:

“How could we say we had value for money?” Sylvain Adams told cyclingweekly.com. “We signed Chris to be the leader of our Tour de France team and he’s not even here, so that cannot be considered value for money … Chris isn’t a symbol. He isn’t a PR tool … So no, I couldn’t say he’s value for money, no.”

If you select the ‘stopwatch’ tab on the tracker above, you can take a look through the five categories of standings – the yellow jersey (overall), green jersey (sprint), polka dot jersey (mountains), white jersey (youth) and team.

Today Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) is in yellow with a slender 17-second lead over Tadej Pogacar; Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is in green, having dominated the sprints with four wins from four attempts, and he leads Mads Pedersen by a huge 141 points; America’s Neilson Powless (EF Education) remains in polka dots, though his advantage could be shredded as Vingegaard and Pogacar battle in the Alps over the coming days and sweep up King of the Mountains points; Pogacar (UAE Emirates) is wearing the young rider’s white jersey, four minutes up on Ineos’s Carlos Rodriguez; and Bahrain Victorious are the leading team, just ahead of Ineos and Jumbo-Visma. The top team typically wear yellow on their helmets.

105km to go: The last four to go – Pacher, Van Gils, Oliveira and Teunissen – have all been brought back into the fast peloton. This is frantic stuff early on. Now a much bigger bunch is going, of about 20 riders.

Pogacar, who is expected to be on the attack, said: “I can’t wait to be there. Tomorrow is a good climb, if the legs are good, we can attack; if they’re not good maybe just follow until the top.

“This one will be full gas,” the 24-year-old said.

110km to go: There have been a flurry of early attacks but those involved are struggling to make it stick against a high-paced peloton reeling them back in. The latest attempt to get away is by Pacher, Van Gils, Oliveira and Teunissen.

It’s Bastille Day in France, and locals will be hoping for a home win. That may prove hard to come by, given the parcours and the lack of Frenchmen near the top of the leaderboard.

120km to go: So we are under way on stage 13 and two riders have made an early break for it: Pierre Latour (TotalEnergies) and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X).

When Pello Bilbao won Tuesday’s stage 10, it was a first Spanish stage winner in five years. Two days later there was another, both from Basque riders thriving in a race which began in their home region.

“I felt strong in the last kilometres,” Ion Izagirre said. “Many things went through my mind. It’s all very emotional. It’s a very Basque Tour de France. It started at home for us and we took two stage wins. I’m happy to follow the line drawn by Pello Bilbao.”

The peloton has come together on the start line for stage 13, with the jersey wearers together at the front sharing a few words. Will we see a showdown between the man in yellow, Vingegaard, and the rider in white, Pogacar? Almost certainly. This has the makings of a thrilling race to the top of the Grand Colombier.