Après une longue semaine dans le Nord de la France, les coureurs de cette 112e édition ont entamé le premier massif montagneux de ce Tour de France. Et c'est Simon Yates (Visma | Lease a Bike) qui s'est imposé au sommet du Mont-Dore, au terme d'une belle bataille en échappée sur cette 10e étape dans le Massif Central. Lui aussi présent dans l'échappée et 3e de l'étape, Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) s'empare du Maillot Jaune pour quelques secondes devant Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG). Malgré quelques attaques, statu quo parmi les principaux favoris, même si Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) a légèrement craqué dans le final.
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00:30Maybe he could have played it at the start better, but in the end I think Simon was always going to win that with the gap he made at the end.
00:37What about, when was the last time you were in a breakaway at the Tour de France, winning break with four or three other Australians?
00:43Yeah, I don't know actually. To be honest, I think in 23 I was in a break with Durban, and Hague was also in that break to be honest, stage 20.
00:55So, no, 19. So that's happened before. It was good having Mara and Plappy up there, so we had some numbers, but yeah, it was a hard day out.
01:06Just a bit gutted, to be honest, to not have done the job properly.
01:10Does it give you something to, you know, get your confidence up post-resto? A long way to go on this bike race.
01:15You've come from a little way back before.
01:17Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think I said earlier, I've read this story before, I've been in this situation before, and come out the other side with some pretty good results.
01:28But yeah, fourth is good, and it's nice to be back, but I didn't win, so a bit gutted.
01:36Oh, man, I can't believe how strong he is, to be honest. Yeah, and then to come past me at the end there, yeah, impressive.
01:51So, I don't know if he's in the yellow jersey, but if he is, he definitely deserves it.
01:56I think we're still waiting to find out, and you've made, I know that you would have liked more, but you've made a bit of a step forward on GC as well, maybe inching your way back into GC.
02:03Oh, I couldn't care less. I lost today, so I think that's the first thing, and it stings a little bit, so a bit frustrating.
