Tour de France 2025 Stage 11 LIVE - Jonas Abrahamsen pips Mauro Schmid for Uno-X's first ever win as breakaway survives from start to finish

Let's not forget that these two riders were the very first to get away at KM0. To survive nothing less than an onslaught is remarkable.

And because of his sportsmanship, whether you agree with it or not, Tadej Pogacar does not lose any time.

They seemed to cross the line together. Schmid was more concerned about Van der Poel, who was on the same straight at 400m, but the Swiss rider perhaps did one pull too many. There was maybe a wheel in it in the end.

He knows how to do this. He's done it before. Schmid and Abrahamsen have to take it to the line. Nine seconds.

And it appears the favourites group have knocked it off. They've received the call and it's panic over for Pogacar.

An overlap of the wheel is what caused it. He loses contact with the group he's in and will lose time. He needs support, urgently.

He's charging. They can't afford to mess around.

Just before the top of the climb, but Remco is alert to the move and Pogacar expected it too. There's another dig from Visma on the descent, as Jorgensen accelerates out of the saddle.

So important to be at the front with how narrow the entrance is. Kevin Vauquelin attacks immediately, looking to gain time lost at the end of the first week.

It's a wall, but they're met by a wall of noise, flare smoke, flags. As Van Der Poel digs in for one big throw of the dice, showing how much power he still has in his legs.

They're pulling well together, as Ballerini slips back to Van der Poel and Van Aert but the gap is growing.

It's not over for him yet, as the gap opens up to Abrahamsen and Schmid and Simmons gets across to the South Londoner. Wright needs to sit on, not beat himself up. This is still winnable from this position.

Than Quinn Simmons provides an answer, powering up the Cote de Vieille Toulouse, leaving Van der Poel and Van Aert behind. Abrahamsen and Schmid accelerate over the top themselves from the front group.

It's 1.3km at 6.8% and the gap has just shown to have gone out to 28 seconds, but that may have been a GPS wobble. Whatever, it's on a knife edge, this. At what point does a rider from group two decide to grasp the nettle and attack his nearest rivals?

This, as Robbie McEwen says, is the key point. It doesn't matter if the riders behind are mathematically stronger on paper if they're skipping turns, riding a bit softer when it's their go. The five in the front are going to maintain their commitment and collaboration until such incontrovertible evidence is presented that they ought to do otherwise. I've been really impressed.

Are Van der Poel and Van Aert biding their time, leaving them out there to close it down, or can they just not do it on their own? There's a certain south London WhatsApp group I'm in that has been actively urging on our lead quintet. I'm not going to pretend to be an unbiased observer myself.