Tour de France 2022: stage 13 to Saint-Étienne – live!

France’s Warren Barguil became the latest rider to pull out of the Tour de France after testing positive for Covid-19 ahead of stage 13, his team Arkea-Samsic said on Friday.

Barguil is the sixth rider to leave the race due to a positive test for the virus since the start on 1 July. “Our seven other riders have all tested negative,” Arkea-Samsic wrote on Twitter. “Thank you for everything [Warren].” Barguil becomes the 18th rider to leave this year’s Tour, for one reason or another, leaving 158 riders in the peloton.

• 1. Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Jumbo-Visma) 46hrs 28mins 46secs
• 2. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates) +2mins 22secs
• 3. Geraint Thomas (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +2mins 26secs
• 4. Romain Bardet (Fra/DSM) +2mins 35secs
• 5. Adam Yates (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +3mins 44secs
• 6. Nairo Quintana (Col/Arkea Samsic) +3mins 58secs
• 7. David Gaudu (Fra/Groupama-FDJ) +4mins 07secs
• 8. Tom Pidcock (GB/Ineos Grenadiers) +7mins 39secs
• 9. Enric Mas (Spa/Movistar) +9mins 32secs
• 10. Aleksandr Vlasov (Rus/Bora-Hansgrohe) +10mins 06secs

Stage 12 report: In one of the most remarkable exhibitions of climbing and descending seen in the modern Tour de France, Tom Pidcock set out his stall as a future contender by becoming the youngest stage winner at Alpe d’Huez, wrote Jeremy Whittle.

The transitional road from the Alps to the Massif Central is well trodden, and this stage has enough climbing to make it hard to control the race, writes William Fotheringham. The early break is odds-on to succeed. The battle to get into the winning move will be intense, and the flat finish favours a specialist stage hunter with a sprint, such as Denmark’s Magnus Cort Nielsen or Mathieu Van der Poel if he’s still in the race. [Narrator’s voice: “Mathieu van der Poel is not still in the race.”]