Tour de France 2025: Simon Yates wins epic stage 10 as Ben Healy takes yellow jersey – as it happened
What a day and what a stage to cover.Thank you for reading the blog and to everyone who emailed in.It was a fantastic day for Simon Yates and Ben Healy.I think the peloton will be very much looking forward to their rest day in Toulouse tomorrow.I’ll also be having a rest day and will be back covering the Tour de France 2025’s next stage on Wednesday.
Join me then for more action.Before I go, I’d like to share this lovely email from Brad in Philadelphia:Novice American cycling fan here, from Philadelphia, also a sports writer (I do wrestling, track and field and American football), who for various reasons is unable to watch the Tour.I depend on your MBMs [minute-by-minute] of the Tour for coverage, and yours are excellent.I’d be lost without you!I love that you add photos as much as possible.They really convey the whole environment, which must be so exciting to be at, well.
Enjoy the rest day!Thanks Brad.It’s great to hear that you enjoy the blog and the coverage is helpful.Before I go, here’s today’s race report:Here are the pictures from today’s podium in Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy:Ben Healy spoke to reporters, wearing the maillot jaune, and looking slightly dazed by his success today.He said:Honestly that was such a tough stage.I’m so emotionless right now because I’m so tired.
It’s beyond belief this.If you’d said to me I would have the stage win and be in yellow, and beforethe rest day, I wouldn’t have believed you.He said his tactic was just to get his head down and go.Healy then thanked his EF Education-EasyPost teammates:If it wasn’t for the team I wouldn’t be in the yellow [jersey].[So] massive thanks to them.
Ger has a question about the Ben Healy being the fourth Irishman to wear the yellow jersey.He asks:OK you gave us Stephen ‘cheese’ Roche.I’d guess Sean Kelly at some stage although he was a green jersey specialist.Did Stephen Roche’s son Laurence wear it? Who were the other three?Stephen Roche wore the yellow jersey in 1987, Sean Kelly in 1983 and Shay Elliot in 1963.And of course, now Ben Healy.
Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious), 27ptsBen Healy (EF Education-Easypost), 16ptsMichael Woods (Israel-Premier Tech), 11ptsTim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates XRG), 8ptsThymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), 7ptsJonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), 227ptsTadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), 163ptsBiniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), 151ptsTim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step), 150ptsMathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), 128ptsSimon Yates’ Visma-Lease a Bike’s teammate, Jonas Vingegaard, has also spoken to reporters after stage 10.He told them:We wanted to have a good man in the breakaway and we did with Simon [Yates].I’m incredibly happy for Simon.For me personally im happy with my legs and how I felt today.I think we can say we had a good day.
Asked about Tadej Pogačar and UAE Team Emirates XRG, Vingegaard said:UAE [Team Emirates XRG] were very good at defending today.We stuck to the plan to put some pressure on UAE.Of course it was a hard day.I’m stil behind [and] I have to take time at some point.He added that he was happy that so far in the Tour he’d been able to follow Pogačar’s attacks and this was an improvement on the Critérium du Dauphiné.
Simon Yates spoke to reporters after winning stage 10.He said:I actually didn’t feel good out there.It was a hard start … I also wasn’t really expecting any oppotunities here.We came here for Jonas [Vingegaard] and the GC.He added:I’m under no illusion what we’re here for.
The plan today was to stay there [in the breakaway] and see what was going on, and then the gap became too big,So, I cracked on,He finished by saying he was looking forward to the rest day and the rest of the Tour,Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) 37hrs 41mins 49secsTadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), +29secsRemco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +1min 29secsJonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +1min 46secsMatteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +2mins 6secsKévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels), +2min 26secsOscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL), +3mins 24secsFlorian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +3mins 34secsPrimož Roglič (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +3mins 41secsTobias Halland Johannessen (Uno-X Mobility), +5mins 3secs1,Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) 2.
Thymen Arensman (Ineos Grenadiers), +9secs 3.Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost), +31secs 4.Ben O’Connor (Jayco AlUla), +49secs 5.Michael Storer (Tudor), +1min 23secsEF Education-EasyPost’s Ben Healy becomes the fourth Irishman to ever wear the yellow jersey.The last Irish rider to wear the maillot jaune was Stephen Roche in 1987.
The GC top five1.Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) 2.Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG), +29secs 3.Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step), +1min 29secs 4.Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +1min 46secs 5.
Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike), +2mins 6secsTadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) are being towed to the finish by a visibly tired Lenny Martinez.Pogačar has decided to let the yellow jersey go for now.Earlier, the pundits pondered if this might happen if the time gap wasn’t too dangerous for him.There’s a long transfer of about 4hrs 30mins for the riders to Toulouse for their rest day tomorrow so it means he can get straight on the bus and avoid the podium.Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) makes his move! He’s out the saddle accelerating and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) is the only one that can follow.
They’re doing a little cat and mouse action now.Simon Yates takes a quick look back over his shoulder and rides to the finish to take the win on stage 10.Thymen Arensman rolls over the line to take second and Ben Healy finishes 31secs after Yates.Remco Evenepoel attacks! Tadej Pogačar doesn’t react.900m: Simon Yates doesn’t have too far to go now, surely it’s his now? He’s on le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy (3.
3km at 8%).Ben Healy grits his teeth and pushes.Yates is looking really strong.1.5km to go: Arensman is 30m behind Simon Yates.
Ben Healy and Ben O’Connor are 24secs behind.2.6km to go: Thymen Arensman bridges across to Ben O’Connor and Simon Yates.Yates attacks again and O’Connor can’t keep up.Arensman overtakes O’Connor and is about 10m behind Yates.
4km to go: Simon Yates attacks! Ben O’Connor follows but Ben Healy can’t.The yellow jersey group is down to 10 riders and Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) is isolated but looks comfortable.7km to go: The break reached the summit of Col de la Croix-Saint-Robert and are sweeping down the descent on.KOM results at Col de la Croix-Saint-Robert1.Healy, 5 pts 2.
Arensman, 3 pts 3.O’Connor, 2 pts 4.Storer, 1 ptVisma-Lease a Bike’s Matteo Jorgenson attacks again but Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) is stuck on his wheel.10km to go: Ben Healy has been awarded the most combative rider of today’s stage.In the peloton, Visma-Lease a Bike’s Matteo Jorgenson attacks but Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates XRG) was straight on his wheel.
13km to go: Ben Healy pushes on to the penultimate climb to Col de la Croix Saint-Robert (5.1km at 6.4%).Simon Yates is on his wheel and looking quite relaxed.I’m starting to think David could be right about Yates (see 3.
50pm BST).14km to go: It’s rather chaotic.There seems to be six groups on the road at various points.Victor Campenaerts, Anders Halland Johannessen, Pablo Castrillo and Lenny Martinez are about 1min 30secs behind the break.Oh, Quinn Simmons has cracked and been dropped from the Ben Healy group.
Roland has emailed in and shares his thoughts on the team kits in the peloton:In my very humble opinion, I think the Arkea and Cofidis jerseys are possibly the best of the bunch, due to their somewhat retro look (different coloured sleeves to the torso); even if it does use the Noddy colour scheme, the Lidl-Trek jersey has something about it too,However, in my not at all humble opinion, no jersey can ever beat the fairly recent light blue Belgian national jerseys, although we obviously won’t be seeing them until the world championships,I wasn’t behind my computer yesterday, but after reading your coverage, I have to admit I too was shouting unrepeatable things at the peloton before the caught the very brave MVDP,16km to go: The breakaway have 5mins 3osecs on the peloton,The break is down to six riders now: Ben Healy, Ben O’Connor, Simon Yates, Thymen Arensman, Quinn Simmons and Michael Storer.
20km to go: Adam Yates has closed the gap to Sepp Kuss and Oscar Onley.Matteo Jorgenson attacks, Sepp goes again, Onley chases them down … and on and on it goes with the attacks.21km to go: Poor Lenny Martinez has a nose bleed.Back in the peloton Visma-Lease a Bike have upped the pace, with Tiesj Benoot pushing it and Sepp Kuss on his wheel.Tim Wellens (UAE Team Emirates XRG) is dropped.
Kuss and Oscar Onley manage to open a gap.It’s all starting to kick off.26km to go: Quinn Simmons attacks.The US national champion opened a gap but Ben Healy lead the chase, with Michael Storer on his wheel.Simmons has been reeled back in now.
29km to go: Ben O’Connor attacks again.Ben Healy and Michael Woods follow him.Healy pushes on and tries to get a gap from some of the other breakaway riders.He’s sweeping down the descents.Quinn Simmons chases, with Michael Storer and Simon Yates.
The attackers achieve about a 10sec gap but are caught.33km to go: Victor Campenaerts and Joe Blackmore get back after they were dropped towards the summit of that last climb.There are now 13 riders in the breakaway and they have almost 6mins on the peloton.David has been in touch about today’s breakaway and reckons Simon Yates is a strong bet for the stage win:If you were in that lead group now 50km from the finish and you see Simon Yates sitting there, looking ridiculously fresh and relaxed, you will probably get a sense of impending doom and hopelessness.His to lose at this point
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