Two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard on today's final: "It's just, in general, a very hard climb. It's 13.5km so it's a very long climb. It will take between 30 and 40 minutes to climb it so, in general, I think today will be a hard day."

The Tour de France has four key classifications that riders can “win” in. The one everyone is jockeying for is the yellow jersey, or the general classification (GC) winner. The rider wearing the yellow jersey is the one with the overall lowest combined time to finish all of the stages, and is the “winner” as you typically know it.

After the pandemic forced the Tour de France to be moved back to August in 2020, the race will once again return to its normal start time in June for 2021.. And after a thrilling finish in 2020 ...