The first Pyrenees stage of the 2020 Tour de France (open in new tab) saw many dramatic changes on GC, with several potential contenders losing time. The main victims were Thibaut Pinot (open in new tab) (Groupama-FDJ) and Julien Alaphilippe (open in new tab) of the Dečuninck-Quick Step team, who fell on the second climb of the day, the Porte de Vallès, and with 41 He quickly lost ground as Jumbo Visma set a steady but still patient pace in front of the peloton with 41 km to go. [Alaphilippe, who started 15 seconds behind Adam Yates in the yellow jersey, slowed on the lower slope of the Peyresourde Pass with 41 km to go.

In fact, Alaphilippe launched a huge attack that split the rest of the maillot jaune group, but once caught, he quickly cracked and ended up 18:07 behind stage winner (open in new tab) Nance Peters (AG2R La Mondiale)

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Alaphilippe went into the Tour with the goal of winning a stage, but was surprised to lose so much time, and after one stage in the Pyrenees, he dropped from 11th to 26th overall, more than 11 minutes behind the yellow.

Adam Yates (open in new tab) (Mitchelton-Scott), the leader in the standings, made a valiant effort in the Peyresourde to hang on to yellow. He was dropped several times by his rivals, but he fought back each time and maintains a slim 3-second lead over Jumbo Bisma leader Primosz Roglic (open in new tab).

The Slovenian attacked with Nairo Quintana (Alcare Samsic) and Tadej Pogachar (UAE Team Emirates), at one point the de facto GC leader, but when Rigoberto Uran (EF Pro Cycling) picked up the pace from the chase group, the three They were caught. [Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana), Uran, Quintana, Egan Bernal (open in new tab) (Ineos Grenadiers), Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) and Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) took the yellow jersey.

Pogachar attacked strongly in the last few kilometers of Peyresourde and gained 38 seconds on GC. He made up the time he lost in the crosswind of stage 7 and moved up to 9th place, 48 seconds behind Yellow.

Jumbo-Visma co-leader Tom Dumoulin (open in new tab) was another who lost time. After Sepp Kuss and George Bennett fell on the final climb, the Dutchman was forced to act much earlier than perhaps Jumbo-Visma had planned, and it was Dumoulin who nullified Alaphilippe's attack.

Dumoulin, the 2017 Giro d'Italia winner, nearly made it back to the lead group just before the summit, but a late attack by Pogachar forced Bernal to chase, at which point Dumoulin was forced to give up his position. Dumoulin finished more than two minutes behind Roglic, dropping from fifth to tenth place.

Enric Mas (Movistar), Richard Calapas (Ineos Grenadiers), and Bauke Mollema (Trek-Segafredo) lost 38 seconds from their main rivals on this stage, and last year's fourth-place finisher, Emmanuel Buchmann (Bora-Hansgrohe), lost another 1 minute 07 seconds lost. He is now in 11th place, 1:25 behind Yellow.

Further down the order, Sergio Iguita (EF Pro Cycling) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) suffered a disappointing crash on the final climb, eventually finishing in the same group as Dumoulin. Both Iguita and Valverde remain in the top 20 GC positions