The 2022 Tour de France is the 109th edition of the Tour de France. It started in Copenhagen, Denmark on 1 July and ended with the final stage at Champs-Élysées, Paris on 24 July.
Classification standings
Stage 12
14 July 2022 – Briançon to Alpe d'Huez,
The twelfth stage featured the race's queen stage as the riders travelled from Briançon to Alpe d'Huez. The riders gradually climbed from the get-go, passing through the intermediate sprint in Le Monêtier-les-Bains after . Immediately afterwards, the riders made their way back up the Col du Galibier but this time, the riders went up the hors categorie Col du Lautaret side, which is long with an average of 5.1 percent. After descending the Galibier and the Télégraphe, the riders made their way towards the hors categorie Col de la Croix de Fer, a climb with an average of 5.2 percent. Despite the average gradient, the climb had two short descents while the last averaged 8.3 percent. At the top, there were left on the stage. Following a step descent and a flat section, the riders reached the foot of the hors categorie Alpe d'Huez for another summit finish. The climb is long with an average of 8.1 percent. The first of the climb averaged almost 9 percent before easing to around 5 percent near the summit. All in all, the stage had a total of of vertical climbing.
As soon as the stage started, Neilson Powless () attacked out of the peloton. He was soon joined by five other riders as the peloton allowed the break to gain two minutes. On the climb of Col du Galibier, attacks flew out of the peloton as several riders tried to bridge to the break. Four riders, Giulio Ciccone (), Louis Meintjes (), Tom Pidcock (), and Chris Froome (), eventually managed to break away from the peloton as began to set a steady tempo in the peloton. Meanwhile, up front, Anthony Perez () left his breakaway companions to take the maximum points at the top of the Galibier. On the descent, Powless, Ciccone, and Meintjes bridged up to Perez to form the lead group. Sebastian Schönberger (), Kobe Goossens (), Nelson Oliveira (), Pidcock, and Froome soon made their way to the front group to establish the break of nine riders. The group extended their lead to seven and a half minutes over the peloton before lifted the pace on Col de la Croix de Fer. On the way to the top of the climb, Oliveira, Goossens, Schönberger, and Perez were dropped from the break, with the lead quintet crossing the top of Croix de Fer at almost four and a half minutes before the peloton did so.
On the descent, the peloton eased the pace, allowing the break to extend their advantage to six and a half minutes before they reached the climb of Alpe d'Huez. With around left, Pidcock attacked from the break. Initially, Meintjes, as well as Froome a few seconds behind him, set a steady tempo to keep Pidcock at less than ten seconds ahead but Pidcock gradually extended his lead all the way to the top. He soloed to the top to take his first World Tour win and he also became the youngest rider to win on Alpe d'Huez. Meintjes took second, 48 seconds down, while Froome finished third at over two minutes behind. Meanwhile, in the peloton, increased the pace on the climb. The contenders began to drop from the group until only the maillot jaune, Jonas Vingegaard (), his teammate, Sepp Kuss, Tadej Pogačar (), Geraint Thomas (), and Enric Mas () remained. Towards the top, Pogačar attacked twice and only Vingegaard was able to follow him both times. Pogačar and Vingegaard eventually slowed near the finish, allowing Thomas, Kuss, and Mas to come back to them. At the finish, Pogačar sprinted for time gaps but there were no gaps between him, Vingegaard, and Thomas.
In the , Vingegaard kept the maillot jaune, 2' 22" ahead of Pogačar, who moved up to second, while Thomas rose to third, a further four seconds behind. Romain Bardet () dropped to fourth after losing 19 seconds. Adam Yates (), Nairo Quintana (), and David Gaudu () occupy fifth to seventh after having lost between 38 seconds to 1' 21". Pidcock returned to the top ten with his stage win and time gains on the stage.
Stage 13
15 July 2022 – Le Bourg-d'Oisans to Saint-Étienne,