Ireland’s Healy takes Tour de France lead as Simon Yates wins stage 10

AFP | Paris

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Ben Healy climbed top of the overall rankings at the Tour de France yesterday on a mountain stage won by Briton Simon Yates in a breakaway group.

Race favourites Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard crossed the line together just shy of five minutes behind the escape group after eight climbs in the Massif Central.

2025 Giro d’Italia winner Yates attacked on the last of the day’s climbs, with Thymen Arensman of Ineos second and Healy coming third at 31sec.

Healy won stage six of the Tour de France in Normandy on Thursday with a long solo break and yesterday he had already sealed the combativity award for his attacks.

Healy had done most of the work in the escape all afternoon and now leads the Tour itself by 29sec from defending champion Pogacar, with Remco Evenepoel in third at 1min 29sec.

Denmark’s double Tour de France champion Vingegaard is fourth overall at 1min 46sec, and his Visma teammate Matteo Jorgenson sits fifth.

Recompense for the home nation on the national Bastille Day holiday came in the form of Lenny Martinez as he earned the King of the Mountains polka dot jersey with 27 points garnered on the day’s stage.