The multi-ramped 13.5km ski station climb has hosted some barnstormer yellow jersey battles, most recently when Vingegaard and Wout van Aert turned the screw on Pogačar to romp to a victory that sealed the Dane’s first Tour de France win.

Tour de France riders have applauded for a minute before the 12th stage in memory of Samuele Privitera, the 19-year-old Italian who died after a crash while racing in Italy.

2024 Tour de France podium finisher Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–QuickStep) has abandoned on stage 14 of the 2025 race, dropping back from the bunch and climbing into the team car some 9km from the summit of the Col du Tourmalet with still 100km left in the stage.

Stage 12 result and standings as Tadej Pogacar soars to victory on Hautacam - Tadej Pogacar demolished his rivals to storm back into the lead of the Tour de France with his 20th career stage win

The 3-time champion captures the 13th stage to hold on to the yellow jersey and increase his lead to more than four minutes over rival Jonas Vingegard.

Oscar Onley and Kévin Vauquelin continue to impress in this Tour de France. The 22-year-old Brit from Picnic PostNL and the 24-year-old Frenchman from Arkéa-B&B Hotels have never shown themselves in a Grand Tour classification,

Norway’s Jonas Abrahamsen won an incident-packed stage 11 at the Tour de France on Wednesday, outsprinting Mauro Schmid in Toulouse. Behind them, race favorite Tadej Pogačar crashed in the final minutes, but did not lose any time to his general classification rivals after they sportingly waited until he rejoined them.