15 etape Tour de France 2022

Belgium's Jasper Philipsen took the stage on a nod from Wout van Aert on a day leader Jonas Vingegaard crashed and lost two teammates.

And then Wout van Aert, of the dominant Jumbo-Visma team, will probably win as Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar stay tight to each other back in the pack. However, it had already been obvious on several occasions in the first week that the team might not be up to the task ahead of them. 165km to go: Van Aert and his two mates seem determined to stay away, opening up the gap to over two minutes. Vingegaard is wise to the move, and keeping up the front. Pogacar decides to take up the pace, and goes off at the front of the peloton. 75km to go: A descending part of the stage, a chance to feel the breeze, for the leaders, whose gap lowers back to around the minute mark. It was just a touch of the wheel, but the heat is getting to the riders. 90km to go: Michael Forbes gets in touch: “Looking at the finish of today’s stage, it seems such a pity that they don’t include tricky technical sections at the finishes. 50km to go: The breakaway duo is back in the field, and off goesJonas Rutsch, of Trek-Segafredo, who starts another break, and back in the field, the likes of Caleb Ewan and Fabio Jakobsen are dropped, and will not be taking part in the final sprint. Mads Pedersen, is their man, and they are doing their best to mean he is the sole sprinter left in the final surge to the line. At the front of the field, Alexis Gougeard and Benjamin Thomas, of AG2R and Cofidis, have opened up a gap. The Alpecin–Deceuninck rider took it, and just as it looked as if Van Aert might rescue something from a torrid day for Jumbo-Visma, he was beaten by his fellow Belgian. It was worth Philipsen hanging on in the Alps to deliver that win.