Stage 14: Tour de France 2024 Bike Climb - PJAMM Cycling

39.3
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94.3 mi
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13,167 ft
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2024 TOUR DE FRANCE STAGE 14: Mountain

152 km (94 mi) / 4,013 m (13,167’)

PAU>SAINT-LARY-SOULAN PLA D'ADET - July 13

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KOM Corner

STANDINGS AFTER STAGE 14 (July 13)

GC

Rider

Time

gap

Team

1

Tadej Pogacar

56:42:39

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UAE Emirates

2

Jonas Vingegaard

56:44:36

1:57

Visma | Lease a Bike

3

Remco Evenepoel

56:45:01

2:22

Soudal Quickstep

KOM Standing

Rider

KOM Points

Country

Team

1

Tadej Pogacar

56

SLO

UAE Emirates

2

Jonas Vingegaard

43

DEN

Visma | Lease a Bike

3

Jonas Abrahamsen

36

NOR

Uno-X-Mobility

4

Remco Evenepoel

30

BEL

Soudal Quickstep

5

Oier Lazkano

27

SPA

Movistar

6

Carlos Rodriguez

22

SPA

Ineos Grenadiers

7

David Gaudu

20

FRA

Groupama FDJ

8

Ben Healy

17

IRL

EF Education - Easypost

9

Valentin Madouas

16

FRA

Groupama FDJ

10

Bruno Armirail

12

FRA

Decathlon AG2R

Stage 14 Climbs

Times in TdF

Category

Winner

Points

Col du Tourmalet

90

HC

Oier Lazkano

20

Hourquette d’Ancizan

6

1

David Gaudu

10

Pla d’Adet

11

HC

Tadej Pogacar

20

Official post-race summary for Stage 14 (from letour.fr)

An amazing performance on the final climb of Stage 14 from the man in the Yellow Jersey, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), saw him extend his lead in the general classification. Brilliantly assisted by his UAE teammates, in particular by Adam Yates who shook up the race on the ascent to Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d'Adet), Pogacar finished in style, crossing the line 39” ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) and 1'10” ahead of Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) who was third. Carlos Rodriguez (Ineos Grenadiers) at +1'19” and Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) at +1'23” completed the top five. Pogacar therefore increased his overall lead to 1’57” over Vingegaard, who has moved up to second in the GC, with Evenepoel now third at 2’22”.

Goodbye to Pau
Following the withdrawals of Tom Pidcock (Ineos Grenadiers) and Guillaume Boivin (Israel-Premier Tech) due to illness, 157 riders started stage 14 of the 2024 Tour de France, which would cover 151.9 km between Pau and Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d'Adet). The start was frantic yet again and after a hard crash in the last kilometre of yesterday’s finish in Pau, Amaury Capiot (Arkea-B&B Hotels) was forced to abandon early on the stage. Passing through Lourdes (km 37.6), Mathieu Van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Bryan Coquard (Cofidis), Cedric Beullens and Arnaud de Lie (Lotto-dstny) managed to break away from the peloton.

Counter attackers
Later, at km 51, Oier Lazkano (Movistar Team), Kevin Vauquelin, Raul Garcia Pierna (Arkea-B&B Hotels) and Magnus Cort Nielsen (Uno-X) joined them to form an eight-man breakaway, after which followed a 15-man counterattacking group including Chris Juul-Jensen (Jayco-AlUla), Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos Grenadiers), Bruno Armirail (Decathlon-Ag2r La Mondiale), Marco Haller (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe), David Gaudu (Groupama-FDJ ), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Rui Costa, Ben Healy, Sean Quinn (EF Education-EasyPost), Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-dstny), Simon Geschke (Cofidis), Louis Meintjes, Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan) and Fabian Grellier (TotalEnergies).

Fierce fight for the green jersey
Both groups had permission to go clear from the peloton, which was controlled by UAE Team Emirates. Only 30” separated the two front groups as they passed through Esquieze-Sere (IS, km 70.2), which the peloton reached 4’10” behind the leaders. Coquard beat De Lie in the intermediate sprint, before Girmay outpaced Philipsen in the second group in the fight for ninth. The four of them then sat up as the climb to the Col du Tourmalet - Souvenir Jacques Goddet (HC, km 89.6) began. That left 17 breakaway riders to attack the climb to the Tourmalet, with Vauquelin and Costa among the climbers who fell out of the group as the steep ramps and the pace took their toll. Then, with the summit in their sights Gaudu and Lazkano accelerated away from the group and it was the impressive Spanish Tour de France debutant Lazkano who was first to the top, 12” ahead of Gaudu and 25” in front of Armirail.

The peloton accelerates
2’55” was the gap between the leaders of the race and an accelerating peloton at the foot of the Hourquette d’Ancizan (Cat. 2, km 123.4), with the breakaway reduced to five men on the climb: Kwiatkowski, Gaudu, Healy, Lazkano and Meintjes. This time it was Gaudu who got the better Lazkano at the top, with the peloton arriving 1’15” after them, having shaved off more than a minute and a half on the ascent.

Exciting finish in Saint-Lary-Soulan (Pla d'Adet)
The five remaining breakaway riders began the punishing 10.6 km climb of Saint-Lary-Soulan - Pla d’Adet (HC, km 151.9, 7.9% average gradient) together, with Healy going solo early on the final ascent. Yates attacked 7km from the finish to chase down Healy, before Pogacar himself attacked with 5km remaining, joining Yates as they accelerated past the Irishman. Pogacar went on to finish the job powerfully, with Vingegaard and Evenepoel chasing him hard to the line, limiting the damage as much as they could.

STAGE 14 DETAILS AND STATISTICS

  • Location: Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitania Regions, France - Pyrenees.
  • Distance: 152 kilometers / 94 miles
  • Altitude Gained: 4,013 meters / 13,167’
  • Percentage Grade:
  • 37% (56 kilometers/35 miles) descent
  • 40% (61 kilometers/38 miles)  0-5%
  • 17% (25 kilometers/16 miles) 5-10%
  • 5% (7.5 kilometers/ 5 miles) 10-15%
  • 1% (1.2 kilometers / .7 ) 15-20%
  • Steepest:
  • 500 meters 15.1% / ¼ mile 15.8%
  • 1 Kilometer 12.7% / 1 mile 10.9%
  • Highest Point on the Route:  2,123 meters / 6,966’
  • Lowest Point on the Route: 186 meters / 610’

COMMENTS FROM RACE DIRECTOR CHRISTIAN PRUDHOMME - STAGE 14:

“The dynamic format of the first Pyrenean stage is accentuated by the fact that battle is unlikely to commence until the riders have gone through Lourdes. From that point, with 80 kilometres remaining, there’ll be a festival of climbing, featuring the Col du Tourmalet, the Hourquette d’Ancizan and the climb to Pla d’Adet. Fifty years on, the finish line will be exactly where it was when Raymond Poulidor celebrated victory in the 1974 Tour.” (Tour de France Stage 14).

 

Top climb of Stage 15 and second hardest climb of the 2024 TdF.