Tour de France 2025 Stage 2 LIVE - Mathieu Van der Poel pips Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard to the line in thrilling finish

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Three from three for Alpecin-Deceuinck? Stranger things have happened. I'll see you right here tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for playing along today.

1. Mathieu van der Poel 8'38'48"
2. Tadej Pogacar +4"
3. Jonas Vingegaard +6"
4. Kevin Vauquelin +10"
5. Romain Gregoire +10"

1. Mathieu van der Poel
2. Tadej Pogacar
3. Jonas Vingegaard
4. Romain Gregoire
5. Julian Alaphilippe

And Remco Evenepoel loses more time, at least from bonuses. Whether he was gapped we'll wait to find out. He wasn't in the top ten.

Even Tadej Pogacar, right on his wheel to the end, could not deny him. Van der Poel led and then kicked with 100m to go. He was unmatchable.

What power does he have left? It's going to be a big finish.

They're present in numbers. Big effort from Almeida. Roglic can play passenger as they close on his team-mate.

Just across the bridge and the left turn, ahead of the final rise to the finish.

And an IPT rider looking to make it a trio. I think Philipsen and the yellow jersey is gone.

And suddenly Vingegaard is going for it. He's like a changed man. Evenepoel and Pogacar are shadowing him, alert to everything.

He finds himself at the front and unsure whether to press on or not. He glances behind and eases up as they grind across the final categorized climb of the day. Twenty or so riders at the front now, with Jhonatan Narvaez doing what he did at the Dauphine.

First at the KOM line, he might not be in yellow at the end of today, but it's looking like he'll be in spots. It doesn't look like they're motivated to push on as they did at the Dauphine, but Romain Gregoire seems most keen to.

It's really stringing out in the final few hundred of this climb. Six riders, Van Aert not with them, with a bit of a gap now.

A thousand meters at 9.8%, Visma and Groupama are absolutely going for it. Van der Poel is there, out of the saddle, Benoot takes control. Pogacar and Vingegaard are where you'd expect.

Will Ben Healy be able to do something? QuickStep are there and there are hints that Remco could be about to kick things off.

He's up against it to hold on to them but expect him to give it all he's got. That's definitely his finish line. It's going to be full gas to the top of the Cote de Saint-Etienne-au-Mont. There's already a massive battle for the front row, more than 6km out from the climb.

It's on like Donkey Kong. Two climbs to come.

Still a few off the back, but all the main names are up there. It's so nervy across these narrow lanes. As Matthews says, it's just repeated fights for position and then an easing, following by another acceleration. They're using every inch of the road and more. Another category three is coming up.