Tadej Pogačar has powered to an impressive stage win on the first day in the Pyrenees to take back the Tour de France yellow jersey.

Tour de France riders have applauded for a minute before the 12th stage in memory of Samuele Privitera, the 19-year-old Italian who died after a crash while racing in Italy.

Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) stamped his authority on the Tour de France as the race visited the high mountains for the first time, attacking 12km from the top of Hautacam to score a dominant solo stage 12 victory.

Oscar Onley and Kévin Vauquelin continue to impress in this Tour de France. The 22-year-old Brit from Picnic PostNL and the 24-year-old Frenchman from Arkéa-B&B Hotels have never shown themselves in a Grand Tour classification,

Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates winning the thirteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time-trial over 10.5 kilometers (6.5 miles) in the Pyrenees mountains with start in Loudenvielle and finish in Peyragudes, France, Friday, July 18, 2025. Credit: AP/Thibault Camus

Norway’s Jonas Abrahamsen won an incident-packed stage 11 at the Tour de France on Wednesday, outsprinting Mauro Schmid in Toulouse. Behind them, race favorite Tadej Pogačar crashed in the final minutes, but did not lose any time to his general classification rivals after they sportingly waited until he rejoined them.

The Tour de France 2025 had its first real mountain stage on Thursday, finishing at Hautacam, and the second part of the Pyrenees block will also see the GC contenders giving it their all. There is a short but powerful climbing time trial on the program,