The penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2024 was to offer the last day of high mountains, in which the general classification was already decided at the top, with Tadej Pogacar, barring a major surprise, as the winner.
Nevertheless, Pogacar powered to his fifth stage win after Soudal - Quick-Step had accelerated the pace of the peloton so that the breakaway was not far behind. Then, Jonas Vingegaard attacked Remco Evenepoel to certify 2nd place, and the Slovenian took advantage of this to not lose time and dispute the win with the Dane. Vingegaard's goal was at least accomplished, as he goes into the final time trial with 2 minutes and 50 seconds over Evenepoel, who in turn will take 3rd place in the Tour de France with almost 9 minutes over 4th, Joao Almeida.
This is where the disappointment came for Mikel Landa. The Basque wanted to go for 4th overall, but on the final climb he fell apart under the attacks of his leader, Evenepoel, who wanted to take time off Vingegaard, and Jonas himself. In the end, he is 40 seconds behind the Portuguese, who is better in the time trials;
Further down, Carlos Rodriguez, who was again dropped very early, has dropped to 7th overall to Adam Yates, now 6th. The Top 10 is completed by Matteo Jorgenson, 8th, Derek Gee, 9th, and Giulio Ciccone, 10th.
1 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE Team Emirates | 82:53:32 |
2 | VINGEGAARD Jonas | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 05:14 |
3 | EVENEPOEL Remco | Soudal Quick-Step | + 08:04 |
4 | ALMEIDA Joao | UAE Team Emirates | + 16:45 |
5 | LANDA Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | + 17:25 |
6 | YATES Adam | UAE Team Emirates | + 21:11 |
7 | RODRIGUEZ Carlos | INEOS Grenadiers | + 21:12 |
8 | JORGENSON Matteo | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 24:26 |
9 | GEE Derek | Israel-Premier Tech | + 24:50 |
10 | CICCONE Giulio | Lidl-Trek | + 25:48 |
11 | BUITRAGO Santiago | Bahrain Victorious | + 26:10 |
12 | YATES Simon | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 35:54 |
13 | GALL Felix | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 38:41 |
14 | MARTIN Guillaume | Cofidis | + 39:30 |
15 | CARAPAZ Richard | EF Education-EasyPost | + 41:00 |
16 | DE PLUS Laurens | INEOS Grenadiers | + 42:07 |
17 | CRAS Steff | TotalEnergies | + 44:20 |
18 | HINDLEY Jai | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 52:14 |
19 | MEINTJES Louis | Intermarché-Wanty | + 01:06:24 |
20 | MAS Enric | Movistar Team | + 01:06:49 |
21 | KELDERMAN Wilco | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 01:16:22 |
22 | BERNARD Julien | Lidl-Trek | + 01:31:40 |
23 | ROMO Javier | Movistar Team | + 01:35:32 |
24 | VERONA Carlos | Lidl-Trek | + 01:40:15 |
25 | MADOUAS Valentin | Groupama-FDJ | + 01:46:59 |
26 | HEALY Ben | EF Education-EasyPost | + 01:48:29 |
27 | VAN WILDER Ilan | Soudal Quick-Step | + 01:50:36 |
28 | JEGAT Jordan | TotalEnergies | + 01:57:55 |
29 | BARDET Romain | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 01:59:28 |
30 | HAIG Jack | Bahrain Victorious | + 02:06:32 |
31 | SIVAKOV Pavel | UAE Team Emirates | + 02:07:27 |
32 | EIKING Odd Christian | Uno-X Mobility | + 02:11:16 |
33 | ARMIRAIL Bruno | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 02:11:39 |
34 | JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland | Uno-X Mobility | + 02:14:48 |
35 | RODRIGUEZ Cristian | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | + 02:20:13 |
36 | JUNGELS Bob | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 02:24:12 |
37 | FUGLSANG Jakob | Israel-Premier Tech | + 02:27:45 |
38 | BARGUIL Warren | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 02:36:05 |
39 | ONLEY Oscar | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 02:36:58 |
40 | GRÉGOIRE Romain | Groupama-FDJ | + 02:40:07 |
41 | SOLER Marc | UAE Team Emirates | + 02:46:01 |
42 | POELS Wout | Bahrain Victorious | + 02:47:37 |
43 | KULSET Johannes | Uno-X Mobility | + 03:10:58 |
44 | HOULE Hugo | Israel-Premier Tech | + 03:21:15 |
45 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan | INEOS Grenadiers | + 03:28:24 |
46 | ABRAHAMSEN Jonas | Uno-X Mobility | + 03:31:52 |
47 | CORT Magnus | Uno-X Mobility | + 03:34:48 |
48 | GENIETS Kevin | Groupama-FDJ | + 03:37:14 |
49 | STUYVEN Jasper | Lidl-Trek | + 03:43:04 |
50 | BURGAUDEAU Mathieu | TotalEnergies | + 03:43:42 |
51 | TRATNIK Jan | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 03:44:27 |
52 | HIRT Jan | Soudal Quick-Step | + 03:46:17 |
53 | WILLIAMS Stephen | Israel-Premier Tech | + 03:50:22 |
54 | GOOSSENS Kobe | Intermarché-Wanty | + 03:50:48 |
55 | LEMMEN Bart | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 03:51:08 |
56 | WELLENS Tim | UAE Team Emirates | + 04:15:43 |
57 | GRELLIER Fabien | TotalEnergies | + 04:27:12 |
58 | GESCHKE Simon | Cofidis | + 04:34:19 |