Lourdes

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It's a flat opening half before those three monster climbs - and look, there's an attack from the gun from the man in green, Wout van Aert... He can't be after green jersey points - he already has the jersey wrapped up - and he can't think he can win today. although he promises to be back for the Vuelta next month. Bahrain Victorious and Lotto Soudal - who have both not won a stage yet - are the latest to push. Simon Geschke is near the front in his polka dot jersey, which he could secure today if he goes over the Col d'Aubisque in first place. But more and more are trying to get involved - including that man Van Aert, insatiable in green. Van Aert has come straight to the front but so many teams are active here, trying to get something from today's stage. Of course, he'd still have to prevent Vingegaard and Pogacar from getting points over the next two climbs - so it's still a tall order - but it's keeping the faint dream alive. The Belgian must be trying to amass the most amount of green jersey points in the modern era because he's just zipped off ahead of Mohoric (who, in his defense, put up a spirited fight) to win the intermediate sprint at Laruns. He's up to 436pts now. Both riders are okay, but the New Zealander is raging at the driver of the motorbike, who had switched off and didn't anticipate that flashpoint. The motorbike was aiming for the same small gap between the UAE car and the barriers at Bauer - but when the car slammed on its brakes because of Nils Eekhoff's sprawling body ahead, Bauer has no place to go but its rear window... He won't get any points over the top and is likely to concede his polka dot jersey to either Pogacar or Vingegaard today. The polka dot dream looks to be over for the German, who has been caught by the Sepp Kuss-led yellow jersey group.