2024 Tour de France stage 3 GC Update: Richard Carapaz snatches yellow from Tadej Pogacar on countback
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After a stunning opening two days at the 2024 Tour de France, stage 3 was a markedly more quiet affair, with Biniam Girmay eventually taking the stage win. Nevertheless, there was still some GC drama at the very last.
In fact, there is a new yellow jersey. Richard Carapaz has moved into the overall lead of the 2024 Tour de France following the stage. The EF Education - EasyPost rider remains on the same time as Tadej Pogacar, now 2nd, Remco Evenepoel, 3rd, and Jonas Vingegaard, 4th, but due to countback on positions finished through the first three stages, the Ecuadorian moves into the Maillot Jaune.
Romain Bardet remains 5th, 6 seconds behind the yellow jersey. Pello Bilbao moved up two positions and is now 6th, 21 seconds behind. Guillaume Martin, 7th with the same gap to the leader, and after climbing 9 positions. Egan Bernal drops one position and is 8th, also at 21 seconds. Actually, inside the Top 10 from 6th everyone has the same gap. Jai Hindley is 9th after climbing 6 positions, and Aleksandr Vlasov closes the Top 10 with 10th place.
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Tour de France 2024 general classification after stage 3:
| 1 | CARAPAZ Richard | EF Education-EasyPost | 15:20:18 |
| 2 | POGACAR Tadej | UAE Team Emirates | + 00 |
| 3 | EVENEPOEL Remco | Soudal Quick-Step | + 00 |
| 4 | VINGEGAARD Jonas | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 00 |
| 5 | BARDET Romain | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 06 |
| 6 | BILBAO Pello | Bahrain Victorious | + 21 |
| 7 | MARTIN Guillaume | Cofidis | + 21 |
| 8 | BERNAL Egan | INEOS Grenadiers | + 21 |
| 9 | HINDLEY Jai | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 21 |
| 10 | VLASOV Aleksandr | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 21 |
| 11 | RODRIGUEZ Carlos | INEOS Grenadiers | + 21 |
| 12 | YATES Simon | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 21 |
| 13 | JORGENSON Matteo | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 21 |
| 14 | CICCONE Giulio | Lidl-Trek | + 21 |
| 15 | VAN GILS Maxim | Lotto Dstny | + 21 |
| 16 | MAS Enric | Movistar Team | + 21 |
| 17 | ROGLIC Primoz | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 21 |
| 18 | GALL Felix | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 21 |
| 19 | AYUSO Juan | UAE Team Emirates | + 21 |
| 20 | LANDA Mikel | Soudal Quick-Step | + 21 |
| 21 | ALMEIDA Joao | UAE Team Emirates | + 21 |
| 22 | YATES Adam | UAE Team Emirates | + 21 |
| 23 | PIDCOCK Tom | INEOS Grenadiers | + 21 |
| 24 | DE PLUS Laurens | INEOS Grenadiers | + 01:11 |
| 25 | BUITRAGO Santiago | Bahrain Victorious | + 01:11 |
| 26 | CRAS Steff | TotalEnergies | + 01:11 |
| 27 | GEE Derek | Israel-Premier Tech | + 01:22 |
| 28 | HAIG Jack | Bahrain Victorious | + 01:22 |
| 29 | HARPER Chris | Team Jayco-AlUla | + 01:22 |
| 30 | ROMO Javier | Movistar Team | + 01:22 |
| 31 | VAN WILDER Ilan | Soudal Quick-Step | + 01:22 |
| 32 | POWLESS Neilson | EF Education-EasyPost | + 01:51 |
| 33 | MEINTJES Louis | Intermarché-Wanty | + 02:31 |
| 34 | EIKING Odd Christian | Uno-X Mobility | + 02:31 |
| 35 | ARMIRAIL Bruno | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 02:31 |
| 36 | COSTA Rui | EF Education-EasyPost | + 02:31 |
| 37 | ONLEY Oscar | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 02:31 |
| 38 | BARGUIL Warren | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 02:31 |
| 39 | HEALY Ben | EF Education-EasyPost | + 02:44 |
| 40 | BERNARD Julien | Lidl-Trek | + 03:50 |
| 41 | MADOUAS Valentin | Groupama-FDJ | + 04:07 |
| 42 | SKUJINS Toms | Lidl-Trek | + 04:24 |
| 43 | THOMAS Geraint | INEOS Grenadiers | + 04:24 |
| 44 | VERONA Carlos | Lidl-Trek | + 05:43 |
| 45 | KELDERMAN Wilco | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 06:11 |
| 46 | VAN DEN BROEK Frank | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | + 08:36 |
| 47 | SIVAKOV Pavel | UAE Team Emirates | + 08:36 |
| 48 | JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland | Uno-X Mobility | + 08:47 |
| 49 | VAN AERT Wout | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 11:00 |
| 50 | KULSET Johannes | Uno-X Mobility | + 12:39 |
| 51 | ABRAHAMSEN Jonas | Uno-X Mobility | + 13:02 |
| 52 | CAMPENAERTS Victor | Lotto Dstny | + 13:20 |
| 53 | TEJADA Harold | Astana Qazaqstan Team | + 13:24 |
| 54 | ARANBURU Alex | Movistar Team | + 15:50 |
| 55 | KWIATKOWSKI Michal | INEOS Grenadiers | + 16:01 |
| 56 | PACHER Quentin | Groupama-FDJ | + 17:05 |
| 57 | RODRIGUEZ Cristian | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | + 17:09 |
| 58 | OLIVEIRA Nelson | Movistar Team | + 17:10 |
| 59 | VERVAEKE Louis | Soudal Quick-Step | + 17:42 |
| 60 | HOULE Hugo | Israel-Premier Tech | + 17:56 |
| 61 | PEDERSEN Mads | Lidl-Trek | + 18:02 |
| 62 | BETTIOL Alberto | EF Education-EasyPost | + 18:02 |
| 63 | FORMOLO Davide | Movistar Team | + 18:35 |
| 64 | GRÉGOIRE Romain | Groupama-FDJ | + 19:02 |
| 65 | LAURANCE Axel | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 20:14 |
| 66 | JUNGELS Bob | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 20:36 |
| 67 | GOOSSENS Kobe | Intermarché-Wanty | + 21:12 |
| 68 | LAPEIRA Paul | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 24:19 |
| 69 | BENOOT Tiesj | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 24:19 |
| 70 | GENIETS Kevin | Groupama-FDJ | + 26:00 |
| 71 | VAUQUELIN Kévin | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | + 26:30 |
| 72 | GIBBONS Ryan | Lidl-Trek | + 26:57 |
| 73 | SOLER Marc | UAE Team Emirates | + 27:17 |
| 74 | KÜNG Stefan | Groupama-FDJ | + 27:28 |
| 75 | IZAGIRRE Ion | Cofidis | + 27:28 |
| 76 | KRAGH ANDERSEN Søren | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 28:14 |
| 77 | TEUNISSEN Mike | Intermarché-Wanty | + 28:21 |
| 78 | JEGAT Jordan | TotalEnergies | + 29:09 |
| 79 | VAN MOER Brent | Lotto Dstny | + 29:45 |
| 80 | NEILANDS Krists | Israel-Premier Tech | + 29:45 |
| 81 | VANHOUCKE Harm | Lotto Dstny | + 29:45 |
| 82 | GRELLIER Fabien | TotalEnergies | + 29:45 |
| 83 | FUGLSANG Jakob | Israel-Premier Tech | + 29:45 |
| 84 | TRATNIK Jan | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 30:01 |
| 85 | LUTSENKO Alexey | Astana Qazaqstan Team | + 31:34 |
| 86 | MOHORIC Matej | Bahrain Victorious | + 32:43 |
| 87 | LEMMEN Bart | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 34:31 |
| 88 | MOSCON Gianni | Soudal Quick-Step | + 34:31 |
| 89 | VAN DER POEL Mathieu | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 34:31 |
| 90 | ZIMMERMANN Georg | Intermarché-Wanty | + 34:47 |
| 91 | HERRADA Jesus | Cofidis | + 35:34 |
| 92 | PRODHOMME Nicolas | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 36:08 |
| 93 | WILLIAMS Stephen | Israel-Premier Tech | + 36:08 |
| 94 | BEULLENS Cédric | Lotto Dstny | + 36:43 |
| 95 | PAGE Hugo | Intermarché-Wanty | + 36:43 |
| 96 | VERMEERSCH Gianni | Alpecin-Deceuninck | + 36:43 |
| 97 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan | INEOS Grenadiers | + 36:43 |
| 98 | TILLER Rasmus | Uno-X Mobility | + 38:09 |
| 99 | DENZ Nico | Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe | + 40:13 |
| 100 | PETERS Nans | Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team | + 40:13 |
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