Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 14 route updates today as Tadej Pogacar dominates standings

Jonas Vingegaard had this to say after stage 13: “I think I can be happy with my performance today. I did probably my best ever performance, Tadej was just stronger and he deserves to win, so congrats to him.

“Yesterday was really disappointing, I hoped for more, but at the end I was just a bit empty. Yesterday was probably one of my worst performances and today was one of my best, so it’s nice to come back like this. I did everything I could.

“We bounced back today, yesterday was a terrible day for us, until the final climb I actually felt quite good but all of a sudden lights went out. I also know that the level I showed yesterday was not my normal level, so it’s not like I lose the belief in myself. Today was just back to normal. I just have to keep on trying.”

Seventh overall Primoz Roglic, the last of the ‘Big Four’, had a superb day, third on the stage and looking brilliant on the TT bike.

Fourth-placed Florian Lipowitz also had a great day out, narrowing the gap to Evenepoel to six seconds, on a phenomenal stage for Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe and their TT setup. Both riders stayed in their aero position for almost the entire climb and it was clear a huge amount of thought went into the team’s planning.

And Oscar Onley leapfrogged Kevin Vauquelin into fifth overall with another fine performance; he sits 10 seconds off Lipowitz and the battle for the final podium spot, and the white jersey, is looking fascinating.

No more superlatives for Tadej Pogacar, who won yet another stage and extended his lead over his rivals. He’s now more than four minutes clear of Vingegaard and no-one else is within seven minutes of him.

Vingegaard had a much better day and had the morale boost of catching his two-minute man, Remco Evenepoel, proving he’s clearly the best of the rest.

Evenepoel was the big victim of stage 13, never looking comfortable on the bike, unable to stay in his aero tuck, and baffled as to what went wrong. He lost 2’39” and is in danger of losing both his third place overall and the white jersey, with Lipowitz and Onley lurking six and 16 seconds behind him. Here’s hoping he can bounce back today.

Tadej Pogacar became the youngest rider to reach 21 Tour de France stage wins as he stretched his advantage in the yellow jersey to more than four minutes in Friday’s mountain time trial to Peyragudes.

It was a fourth stage win of this year’s Tour for the 26-year-old, who is now 14 shy of Mark Cavendish’s all-time record.

A day after he underlined his dominance so far with a solo win on the Hautacam, Pogacar extended his lead over Vingegaard to four minutes and seven seconds, and barring misfortune, it is hard to see how anyone can stop him winning a fourth title.

1. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) in 23’00”
2. Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), +36”
3. Primoz Roglic (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +1’20”
4. Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), +1’56”
5. Luke Plapp (Jayco AlUla), +1’58”
6. Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Lease a Bike) +2’03”
7. Oscar Onley (Picnic PostNL) +2’06”
8. Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +2’15”
9. Lenny Martinez (Bahrain Victorious) +2’21”
10. Felix Gall (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +2’22”

Tadej Pogacar was once again at his brilliant best on stage 13 of the Tour de France, becoming the youngest rider to ever record 21 stage wins at cycling’s biggest race as he hammered his rivals once more.

The Slovenian rode the 10.9km mountainous time trial from Loudenvielle to Peyragudes in 23 minutes flat, extending his advantage over Jonas Vingegaard to more than four minutes, with the Dane second on the day, 36 seconds back.

Primoz Roglic rolled back the years with a vintage performance to finish third atop Peyragudes, while Remco Evenepoel had a torrid day, losing more than two and half minutes to Pogacar.

Stage 14 gets underway the earliest of all the stages so far, at 12pm local time (11am BST). The winner is expected to come in around 5.10pm local time (4.10pm BST).

Perhaps the second-most brutal stage of this Tour (stage 18 is pure pain), featuring four famous Pyrenean climbs one after another over 182.6km of racing – the organisers’ schedule has an estimated five hours and 10 minutes in place, and that’s just for the winner.

Even the ‘flat’ opening section is a constant tilt uphill until the serious climbing begins: the Col du Tourmalet, Col d’Aspin, Col de Peyresourde before a summit finish at Luchon-Superbagneres.

The route is a tribute to Bernard Hinault, the last French winner, on the 40th anniversary of his fourth yellow jersey in 1985 – although it was a stage Greg LeMond won by nearly five minutes over his rival.

Bonjour and welcome to The Independent’s live coverage of stage 14 of the Tour de France!

It’s the third and final day in the Pyrenees, and arguably, it’s the toughest day of this year’s Tour; it should be a cracker.