The 112th version of the Tour de France is underneath approach, with the three-week race ending on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Sunday, 27 July.

The riders deal with six mountain phases, together with journeys to the Pyrenees and Alps, throughout the gruelling 3,320km (2,063-mile) race.

There are additionally two particular person time trials, with the second that includes the steep climb as much as the Altiport in Peyragudes.

BBC Sport appears to be like in any respect 21 phases of La Grande Boucle analysing the place it may very well be received and misplaced.

This web page will likely be up to date all through the Tour with the winner and a short report following every stage.

Winner: Jasper Philipsen

Report: Philipsen wins stage one to say first yellow jersey

Jasper Philipsen was the primary rider to put on the yellow jersey this yr – claiming the maillot jaune for the primary time in his profession.

A dash end was anticipated after a flat stage starting and ending in Lille, and Alpecin-Deceuninck’s lead-out practice delivered the 27-year-old within the excellent place to say his tenth stage win.

Crosswinds contributed to a chaotic opening day, which noticed the peloton break up about 17km from the end, with most of Philipsen’s team-mates within the lead group.

Winner: Mathieu van der Poel

Report: Van der Poel pips Pogacar in stage two dash end

Mathieu van der Poel edges out Tadej Pogacar in a dash end to win stage two of the Tour de France and declare the chief’s yellow jersey.

The Dutch rider, who additionally received the identical stage in 2021, holds off the three-time Tour champion on the road after surging to the entrance with 500 metres to go on the longest stage on this yr’s race, a rolling 209.1km route from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Winner: Tim Merlier

Report: Merlier pips Milan in crash-marred stage three of Tour

Tim Merlier pips Jonathan Milan on the road in a dash end to win a crash-marred stage three of the Tour de France.

The Belgian edges the Italian by the slenderest of margins with Germany’s Phil Bauhaus in third on a day when Mathieu van der Poel retains the race chief’s yellow jersey and stage one winner Jasper Philipsen is compelled to desert.

Winner: Tadej Pogacar

Report: Pogacar claims one centesimal victory on stage 4 of Tour

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar outsprints Mathieu van der Poel and Jonas Vingegaard as he claims his one centesimal skilled victory on stage 4. The consequence leaves the Slovenian stage on time with Dutch rider on the high of the overall classification with Van der Poel retaining the chief’s yellow jersey on count-back.

Winner: Remco Evenepoel

Report: Evenepoel wins stage 5 as Pogacar claims yellow jersey

Remco Evenepoel wins the person time trial on stage 5 of the Tour de France as Tadej Pogacar takes the yellow jersey from Mathieu van der Poel.

The Belgian rider averages 54kmh to complete 16 seconds faster than Slovenia’s three-time champion Pogacar, with Italy’s Edoardo Affini, third, 33 seconds again.

In the meantime, Denmark’s two-time winner Jonas Vingegaard has a day to neglect, dropping greater than a minute to Pogacar within the common classification.

Winner: Ben Healy

Report: Healy claims first Tour win as Van der Poel regains lead

Eire’s Ben Healy produces a surprising solo assault to win his first Tour stage whereas Mathieu van der Poel regains the yellow jersey.

Healy and Van der Poel spend a lot of the hilly stage in an eight-man breakaway earlier than the EF Training-EasyPost rider goes clear with 42km remaining.

Van der Poel does sufficient to regain the race lead by one second from Tadej Pogacar, who eased in on the entrance of the peloton along with his predominant common classification rivals.

Winner: Tadej Pogacar

Report: Pogacar wins stage seven to regain race lead

Reigning champion Tadej Pogacar regains the race lead from Mathieu van der Poel, who remains to be struggling after a gruelling day on Thursday.

Stage seven has the identical end because it did in 2021, when Van der Poel claimed his first stage win on the enduring Mur-de-Bretagne climb.

However the Dutch rider is unable to problem Pogacar right here because the three-time winner edges out Jonas Vingegaard in a dash for the road, with British rider Oscar Onley finishing the rostrum.

Winner: Jonathan Milan

Italy’s Milan wins stage eight following a bunch dash.

Lidl Trek’s Milan beat Wout van Aert of Visma-Lease a Bike on the flat 171.4km stage into Laval’s Espace Mayenne.

Milan, 24, waited patiently within the wheels of Mathieu van der Poel and Kaden Groves, each of Alpecin-Deceuninck, within the closing 200 metres earlier than utilizing his immense energy to launch himself in direction of the road – with solely Van Aert capable of cling on behind.

Australian Groves finishes third.

Winner: Tim Merlier

Report: Merlier wins dash end as Van der Poel denied epic breakaway triumph

Tim Merlier wins stage 9 of the Tour de France in a dash end after Mathieu van der Poel’s hopes of an audacious breakaway victory are dashed inside the ultimate kilometre.

Van der Poel and his Alpecin-Deceuninck team-mate Jonas Rickaert attacked initially of the 174.1km run from Chinon to Chateauroux and the Dutch former world champion produced a gutsy effort that simply fell wanting delivering his second win on this yr’s race.

Winner: Simon Yates

Report: Yates wins stage 10 on Bastille Day as Eire’s Healy takes yellow

Britain’s Simon Yates takes stage 10 of the Tour de France on Bastille Day as Ben Healy turns into the primary Irish rider to say the yellow jersey since Stephen Roche received the race in 1987.

Yates, who triumphed in his second Grand Tour on the Giro d’Italia in June, instances his assault fantastically on the ultimate ascent of the 165.3km stage after being a part of a long-range breakaway to carry off Thymen Arensman.

Following a relaxation day, stage 11 gives a delicate return to racing though the concluding 16km incorporates two kickers that might alter the composition of any quick end to the road on Boulevard Lascrosses.

The primary actual huge day within the mountains might see fireworks within the GC race.

The route as much as the ski resort at Hautacam on the roads above Lourdes takes the peloton on the route the place five-time champion Miguel Indurain tore the race (and his rivals) aside in 1994.

Extra not too long ago, Jonas Vingegaard rode away from Tadej Pogacar in 2022 on his solution to his first general Tour victory.

A person time trial takes the riders from the valley ground as much as the runway of Altiport 007 in Peyragudes.

After a flat begin, there will likely be over 8km uphill and no hiding place for the GC favourites within the race of reality.

A gradient of seven.8% ramps as much as a punishing 13% within the closing kilometre and it might present a powerful indicator of who will likely be sporting the yellow jersey in Paris.

A traditional and mouth-watering mountain stage within the Pyrenees arrives on the finish of week two.

Practically 5,000m of elevation acquire is packed into climbs up the mighty hors-categorie Tourmalet adopted by the Col d’Aspin and Col de Peyresourde.

On a day when the GC riders will likely be must be at their absolute best, the strongest climbers can have their give attention to the combat for the King of the Mountains jersey and hope to contest the stage on the pull as much as the ski resort of Luchon-Superbagneres.

The gruelling 12.4km slog at 7.3%, which rises as much as 10% in a few sections, needs to be the scene for an epic battle within the race for yellow.

A transitional stage arrives because the race heads from the Pyrenees in direction of the Alps, which appears to be like suited to the strongman sprinters who can address some climbing.

The likes of Wout van Aert and Biniam Girmay ought to view this a possible probability triumph within the medieval ending city of Carcassonne.

Stage 16 is a flat route till some of the legendary mountains in Tour historical past comes into view on the finish with the potential to show the race on its head.

With no categorised climbs all day earlier than Mont Ventoux, and the intermediate dash that includes 112km into the stage, it could be no shock if the peloton stays largely intact till then.

In 2016, sturdy winds meant the end was moved to Chalet Reynard midway up the climb as Thomas de Gendt received from the breakaway and drama unfolded on the slopes behind with the yellow jersey, Chris Froome, initially working up the mountain after a crash.

With two huge Alpine exams nonetheless to come back the GC groups will most likely play second fiddle to the dash groups in relation to making an attempt to rein in any breakaways.

The final three winners of a Tour stage in Valence had been Mark Cavendish (2021), Peter Sagan (2018), and Andre Greipel (2015) and the one factor prone to forestall a bunch dash is the mistral winds that may be fierce within the Rhone Valley.

This yr’s queen stage comes with greater than 5,500m of elevation throughout 171.5km of racing and three legendary climbs which makes it arguably the hardest run of all the Tour.

All three ascents fall underneath the hors categorie, with the Col du Glandon, a 21.7km drag with with sections at double digits only for starters.

The Col de la Madeleine, is shorter however steeper and the whereas there’s a fast descent and the rises within the highway come sharply once more on the monstrous Col de la Loze, a climb of over 26km with gradients hitting 11% because the Tour reaches it is highest level.

The final actual mountain stage represents the ultimate alternative for these excessive within the GC standings to make a play for the yellow jersey.

The route from Albertville to La Plagne covers virtually 130km, and consists of 5 leg-sapping ascents.

Loads of factors will likely be up for grabs once more within the race for the the polka-dot jersey factors accessible however that is actually a last-chance saloon by way of the general race.

Whoever is main at finish of the day will likely be assured, that barring an unforseen catastrophe, they are going to be stood atop the rostrum, draped in yellow on the Champs-Elysees.

The penultimate stage sees the race snake over the hills of the Jura in direction of Pontarlier.

The rolling terrain ought to favour an escapee triumphing, whereas the GC groups defend their leaders.

The Tour returns to it is conventional Paris end after relocating to Good final yr as a result of Olympics.

Nevertheless, it does so with a twist, given the cobbled climb as much as the Sacre-Cœur Basilica options 3 times in a throwback to the highway race within the 2024 Paris Video games.

It is a 1,1km ascent at a gradient of 5.9% added to the unique ending circuit within the French capital designed to whittle down the sphere earlier than a high-speed end albeit presumably with out a number of the pure sprinters.