The Tour de France is an absolute summer classic. Join here at ProXCskiing.com to get Eurosport’s Roberto Vacchi’s comments before today’s Stage 13.

Tour de France stage 12, starting in Briançon, saw Thomas Pidcock (INEOS Grenadiers) winning the 165.1km race to Alpe d’Huez, ahead of Louis Meintjes (Intermarché – Wanty – Gobert Matériaux) and Chris Froome (Israel – Premier Tech). 

Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo – Visma) keeps the yellow jersey. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) is in second place overall, 2:22 behind the leader, and Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) is in third place in the general classification, 2:26 behind.  

Today, Stage 13 starts at Le Bourg d’Oisans, covers 192.6km, and finishes at Saint-Étienne. 

Stage 13 – Le Bourg d’Oisans to Saint-Étienne 192.6km

“After the first three hard stages of week two, the Tour continues with some still not entirely easy stages. The one that starts in Le Bourg d’Oisans (at the foot of the Alpe d’Huez) is considered a smooth stage in this year’s tough Tour. Sure, no monster mountains, but considering what the sprinters have endured, it can probably be tough to keep it together into a group sprint today. And we know what development the sport has had in recent years, where to a greater extent they manage to hold off in a breakaway from just five to ten years ago. The finish is located in Saint-Étienne, where they last visited in 2019, where Thomas De Gendt did one of his “tricks” and won just before the French duo Thibaut Pinot and Julian Alaphilippe,” says Vacchi.

The broadcast starts on Eurosport at 13:20. Neutralized start at 13:05. Expected arrival at 17:26.

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