Ecuadorian cyclist, Giro d'Italia winner, 2019
On stage 13 of the Tour de France, Tom Pidcock finishes third after a late breakaway, earning four bonus seconds and climbing to fourth overall. Mauro Schmid wins the stage from Tejada, with Pogacar extending his overall lead as the race heads into the mountains.
Richard Carapaz has won stage 20 and sealed the King of the Mountains title at the Tour de France, while Sepp Kuss crashes deny his first-stage win. Tadej Pogacar extends his overall lead amid illness within UAE Team Emirates, with Alpe d’Huez looming as the weekend tests.
The Tour de France final stage has been shortened from 133km to 89km and will start on the Champs-Elysées, with two laps followed by Montmartre circuits. Emergency services are redeploying to fight wildfires in southwest France and Spain, and security forces are being diverted to protect affected areas. Pogacar is poised to win a record fifth title.
Kuss has crashed twice on Stage 20 of the 2026 Tour de France but netting appears to have prevented a fall down the mountainside. Carapaz won the stage; Pogacar leads the overall.