1.Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), 8hrs 38mins 42secs 2.Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG), +4secs 3.Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +6secs 4.Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), +10secs 5.

Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +10secs1.Van de Poel (4h 45sec, +10secs bonus) 2.Pogacar (+6secs bonus) 3.Vingegaard (+4secs bonus) 4.Gregoire 5.

Alaphilippe 6,Onley 7,Paret Peintre 8,Vauquelin 9,Velasco 10.

Berkmoes(Same time for other riders)Florian Lipowitz for Bora leads out the sprint as they go under the flamme rouge but is passed on the run in.Julian Alaphilippe is briefly leading the uphill sprint but at the end its Van der Poel who takes it by holding off Pogacar, who runs out f road in the run to the line.It looks like Vingegaard got third.Alpecin-Deceuninck’s Van der Poel claims the yellow jersey for stage three.2km to go.

This is building up for a sprint among the GC men and the winner will likely wear yellow, with Philipsen 23 seconds back,4km to go,Vingegaard attacks but Remco Evenepoel and Pogacar go with him,5km to go,That lead group has swelled to 19 but a lot of those are just hanging on.

6km to go.There’s an elite group of nine who have gone off the front, which includes all the big favourites.A winner will come from these as they come to the final category climb of the day.9km to go.Could this be a little preview of the battle to come in the mountains? Tiesj Benoot and Matteo Jorgenson are all in here for Visma, Pogacar looks comfortable and Vingegaard is on his wheel.

They powered away from the peloton on that climb and have a small 16 second gap now back to the pelotonn, which still includes Jasper Philipsen in the yellow jersey,11km to go,Visma-Lease a Bike back on the front as the peloton nears the bottom of the climb,Matteo Trentin with a big turn,13km to go.

My mistake, Milan and Girmay, are back in the peloton.When did that happen? There are four groups on the road and the second of those is 1min 45secs back.17km to go.That group of riders off the back are yet to catch up, with the peloton about a minute up the road.There’s a few speedsters – Milan and Girmay - in there who might have fancied this finish but won’t get a shot at it.

22km to go,The speedometer tops 70km/h on the downhill,The peloton is now approaching the Côte de Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, another category three climb, which averages a 9,5% gradient across a kilometre,26km to go.

Milan and Girmay, who were arguing earlier, are now riding together to get back with the main bunch.Four or five of them were involved in that crash I mentioned on the climb but it doesn’t appear to have been to serious.The GC favourites briefly had a 10-second lead on the peloton but were happy to fold back in once that climb was safely navigated.30km to go.There’s a crash in the peloton and Geraint Thomas is involved, more on that shortly.

The gradient is flipping around 7% and the GC favourites have created some distance to the rest of the peloton on the climb,Pogacar took the mountains points at the top,32km to go,The tension is increasing as the peloton nears the bottom of this first category three climb,The speed is up and the teams are battling for the A1 road position.

Visma-Lease a Bike have taken up the head of the race with Wout Van Aert on the front.37km to go.Lovely sweeping shots of the peloton as it glides through northern France.It looks like a multi-coloured snake weaving through fields of bright green and yellow.A beautiful race.

40km to go.Adam Yates pulls over for a bike change and loses about 40 seconds on the peloton, he will struggle to get back to the front to help Pogacar from there.45km to go.I think we’ll see this stage really light up in about 15km when they hit the Côte du Haut Pichot, which is a category three climb that is short but steep, with a gradient of more than 10% at points.47km to go.

Full results of the intermediate sprint:1,Fedorov, 20 pts 2,Leknessund, 17 pts 3,Van Moer, 15 pts 4,Armirail, 13 pts 5.

Milan, 11 pts 6.Merlier, 10 pts 7.Girmay, 9 pts 8.Philipsen, 8 pts 9.Turgis, 7 pts 10.

Coquard, 6 pts 11,Penhoët, 5 pts 12,Rex, 4 pts 13,Costiou, 3 pts 14,Van Poppel, 2 pts 15.

Wellens, 1 pt54km to go.We have a sprint! Armirail goes early from the breakaway but Fedorov reels him in and takes the 20 points.In the race for fifth down there’s some angry words exchanged between Jonathan Milan and Biniam Girmay after won the Italian won the battle for the best of the rest.Milan was seemingly unhappy about Girmay swinging in front of him on the bend approaching the sprint.The break has now been absorbed.

58km to go,The breakaway riders know their day off the front is coming to an end,Can they make it to the intermediate sprint? The gap is now down to 35 seconds with about 3km to go until the sprint,63km to go,The intermediate sprint is coming up in 10km.

Jasper Philipsen knows he won’t be in yellow forever and will likely be involved as he bids to hang on to the points jersey.The leaders are going through Montreuil across the cobbles and the peloton has shaved more time off that lead, it’s now down to 50 seconds.Always nice to get correspondence from our international readers, so thank you, Jeremy Hopwood:Currently following the text updates at 7am in Vancovuer Canada (at a swim meet for the next eight hours camped out waiting for the kids to swim - basically like a sprint stage = waiting around all day for 60 seconds of action!)Escape Collective is my podcast suggestion which is a mix of independent cycling journalism along with some behind the scenes entertainment.Their daily Tour digest is a great listen.77km to go.

Soren Waerenskjold is off the back of the peloton with a mechanical issue,The winds are picking up and with the main bunch going at more than 50km/h the Uno-X Mobility rider will have a tough ride to get back in touch,85km to go,The pace is being picked up in the peloton,It touched 65km there briefly and the gap to the breakaway is dwon to 1min 50secs.

Team Cofidis had 11 bikes stolen from their truck overnight before the start of the second stage of the Tour de France, the team said on Sunday.The team, based near Lille, were able to find enough bikes to start stage two, a 209.1km hilly ride from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer, but they condemned the burglary.Each bike is estimated by the team to have cost €13,000.‘The door of the workshop truck was forced open, and 11 of our LOOK Cycle bikes were stolen despite the security measures that had been put in place,’ the team said in a statement.

‘The Cofidis team strongly condemns this act of incivility and calls on the perpetrators to act with civility and responsibility,’The team added that police officers visited the hotel to document the burglary and had begun their investigation,ReutersMy podcast feed is filling up for the train home later, George Scott has come through with another shout:I think you can’t get better for top level cycling analysis than the Lanterne Rouge podcast and its accompanying YouTube tactical videos,Patrick Boe is dry, honest and exceptionally switched on,You just have to get past Benji’s laugh and you’ll be on to a winner.

Patrick now being employed as a team manager for (and for the record, not showing any favouritism on the pod) has shown how far he’s come from making videos overnight while he worked full time as a lawyer in Australia.Coining the term “tug-buddies” may be its best achievement though.95km to go.The riders who went down are working through the team cars to get back on.The group of five riders are about 1min 20secs behind.

Wright is one of them and he’ll be desperate to stay in touch as he definitely has a chance of taking the stage today with his skillset.That will depend a lot on how he recovers over the next 60km or so.99km to go.We have another crash, this one looks more serious.It’s not clear exactly what happened but Visma-Lease a Bike’s Victor Campenaerts, Eddie Dunbar from Jayco-Alula and Fred Wright from Bahrain Victorious are a few of the riders who went down