Tour de France 2026 Stage 11 Highlights

This little town hosted a stage of the Dauphiné with Mads Pedersen winning ahead of Sam Bennett in 2024. Attack of Matisse-Lebert as he goes forward to look for the 25 points at the intermediate sprint. It's going to be a total energy 25 points at the intermediate sprint. Matisse-Lebert takes the 25 from Oliveira, from Alaphilippe, from Schalmich. Shameful sits up almost won the stage the other day was so close to it and the fans give him a cheer across the line in fifth place. 10 points on offer now. Now we get set for the sprint. Pedersen is being led out by Quinn Simmons. Big move by him. On his wheel is Jasper Philipsen and Kanta Gemay just behind. Now they go for the finish and it's gonna be Jasper Philipsen who's gonna take the maximum points. The 10 points to Kanta, to Pedersen, Gemay and Quinn Simmons. Interesting to see that Merlier didn't go for the points. 1.13 is the advantage. Our four-rider breakaway continues with Schalmich, Oliveira, Lebert and Alaphilippe. The peloton is led by some of the sprinters teams. NSN with Marco Frigo on the head of the peloton. Well, there wasn't going to be an attack of Alaphilippe. He's gone. Not good news. Suddenly the legs have gone. Prize for the most combative rider of the day. Well done to Anton Schalmich. He'll be on the podium later on. 6.6k to go. Three seconds. They go around this turn and everybody needs to get safely through there, which they do. Sprinting out the other side. Schalmich still holding the lead. Well done to our breakaway. They're reeled in with five and a half kilometers of racing to go. It was a big effort and they've made everyone ride extremely fast here to the race finish. Get out of the way. There we go. It's going to be the team of Decathlon who's going to go straight. Big acceleration there by Tij Benoet. Pedersen gets ready. Benoet goes with Olav Koi. 2k to go. Now an acceleration of NSN on the other side of the road as they try to take control, but it was maybe a little bit too early for them. The team of XDS Astana a little bit boxed in, but a big move now by NSN as Jake Stewart gets ready. Alps and Premier Tech have got Mathieu van der Poel leading out Jasper Philipsen on that right-hand side as we look. Big move now still of NSN as they close it off on that right-hand turn. 1,400 meters to go. Nico, what comes up in the final one and a half? So we're going to go through another left-hand turn under the one kilometer to go and then the last 500 meters is a continuously right-turning bend. It's almost a 400 meter bend on the right-hand side. So the right-hand side is going to be the quicker line, but it's most likely be the line where the riders are going to get boxed in. Big move now of UNO-X. It's getting very chaotic there in the middle. Pedersen is a bit further back. Abrahamsen is trying to lead out for UNO-X mobility. The move now of Mathieu van der Poel with Jasper Philipsen on the left-hand side. A look at Gaviria. Gaviria is freelancing. They swing across the road. Van der Poel getting set. What a mess this is right now. 500 meters to go. This is the sprint and it's a big acceleration of Kees Bol to try and put Decathlon into the position. Soren Varenskog comes across and goes for the finish line. Big move now as Soren Varenskog goes for the finish line for UNO-X mobility. Philipsen hunting him down. Are UNO-X mobility going to get a stage victory in the middle? UNO-X mobility. Soren Varenskog wins the stage. Massive acceleration from Bol. No one takes the wheel but look at Varenskog just coming into the barriers. Big pull there to catch back the slipstream of Bol. He takes a breather. Decides to go really early but look at the speed of Philipsen. He's about five bike lengths and almost catches him on the line. It's a long sprint. Almost 400 meters sprint. Just not enough. Willingermae, Turgis, Van Rousseau is not happy there. They didn't get the line to sprint.