Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 12 route updates to Hautacam today as Tadej Pogacar reveals crash injuries

4.9km to go: Oscar Onley tells Florian Lipowitz to do a turn on the front of this four-man group and the German says actually, I fancy getting up the road myself… but Onley hauls him back.

Now Lipowitz goes again and Onley chases him back! They go clear of Johannessen and Roglic.

I’ve said this all Tour, but Onley really has been a revelation.

6km to go: Pogacar at least has the grace to look like it’s hard work. Poor Vingegaard is grimacing and really looks like he’s having a terrible time.

State of affairs: Vingegaard is now a minute back, the Roglic group 1’46” back and losing time, Remco Evenepoel 2’05” back and likewise. Kevin Vauquelin is somewhere in between the Roglic group and the white jersey of Evenepoel.

8km to go: Pogacar is now out of sight but very much not out of mind, 40” clear of Vingegaard.

The Roglic-Onley group is 1’20” back and now local boy Kevin Vauquelin, refusing to go away, bridges back across to them. Evenepoel is a further 10 seconds back or so, riding his own race.

10km to go: “You can catch him back, come on,” the Visma-Lease a Bike car – that sounded to me like the voice of Grischa Niermann – tells Vingegaard. But the gap is slowly extending, with another 10km to go.

In the dropped GC group, Roglic is just a bike length or so off the back – but comes back on. That group has been reduced to Onley, Lipowitz, Halland Johannessen, and the Slovenian. They pass Armirail now.

For all the control the top teams exert over bike racing, today has been an exercise in improvisation. Visma-Lease a Bike showed their hand too early by revealing that Yates, Kuss and Jorgenson were all suffering, letting UAE take back over, and with Adam Yates suffering too, it seems Pogacar may have attacked earlier than originally planned.

10.9km to go: Armirail has seen the rainbow jersey fly past him, and Pogacar is out in front, earpiece out, and extending his gap to Vingegaard to around 11 seconds.

11.6km to go: Adam Yates does a tiny acceleration and pulls off and now it’s Narvaez who practically sprints up the lower slopes of Hautacam!

Vingegaard is latched onto Pogacar’s wheel, the trio power away from the rest of the group, and now Pogacar shoots off the front!

Vingegaard doesn’t cling on, just sets his own tempo, and he’s not been fully distanced… He’s pegging him back. Once again, it’s the two best riders in the world.

Armirail’s days are numbered, unfortunately.

12km to go: Simon Yates has been dropped, as has Sepp Kuss, and that just leaves Jorgenson for Vingegaard. Einer Rubio, from the original breakaway, is out the back too.

Tim Wellens is still piling on the pace. Remco Evenepoel is still in this group but it’s being whittled down – and he’s been dropped too, and just needs to find his rhythm.

The gap to Armirail is already down to 1’10”. Wellens swings off, and now Narvaez comes to the front.

13.5km to go: Armirail’s Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale car has just come up alongside him to offer bottles – and, it seems, to tell him to chill out! The local boy is still absolutely haring down the road and has a very difficult climb to come, but he’s not interested in slowing down.

Armirail is a multiple French national time-trial champion – he was brilliant on stage five, finishing fourth – and is now essentially TTing himself to the foot of Hautacam.

Here it is: 13.5km at an average of 7.8%. It’s a brute.

Armirail has 1’45” on the GC group – showtime!

19km to go: It looks like the Skjelmose group has been rotating, but they’ve still not made any ground on Armirail – in fact they’ve haemorrhaged time, and now they sit up as they see the GC group only a few metres down the road.

Wellens, having been in the breakaway, is now hammering on the pedals to bring them back under two minutes to Armirail.

Ben Healy’s group is now nearly six minutes back.

22km to go: Bruno Armirail is pushing on at full tilt still. He’s got 10km until he hits Hautacam, with 1’52” on the Skjelmose group but more worryingly, only 2’15” on the GC group.

The average speed for the last hour – including all that climbing and descending – is 44km/h, as is the average for the entire day. Ridiculous.

It’s also been incredibly hot: 29 degrees Celsius and under blazing sunshine.