The Briton Simon Yates wins the 10th stage, Ben Healy seizes the yellow jersey, a first for an Irishman for 38 years

The Visma-Lease a Bike runner won the third stage victory in his career on the Tour roads on Monday.

French National Day, but victory returns to a Briton. Simon Yates (Visma-Lease A Bike) won on the 10th stage of the Tour de France, solo on arrival at Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, Monday, July 14. Member of the breakaway of the day, the British runner made the difference in the last kilometers of the stage to get the third victory of his career on the Grande Boucle, six years after the 2019 edition.

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Yates' escaped companion, Irishman Ben Healy (EF Education-Easypost) creates the other big day by seizing the yellow jersey of the general classification, after his third place on arrival. It is now 29 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates XRG).

Simon Yates did not necessarily expect to play the win, but he seized the opportunity. Present all day at the top of the race, the Briton was one of the last survivors of the breakaway, which left ten kilometers after the departure of Ennezat and who counted up to 29 runners. He placed a first attack 3.4 kilometers from the finish at Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, before a second band 2.3 kilometers from the line, while his rivals had returned to his wheel.

Solid physically, glued to his saddle, he was not caught up in the desperate return attempt by Thymen Arensman (INEOS-Grenadiers, second of the day at +9 '') and took the time to savor his third success on the French roads, a few weeks after having hung the GIRO to his record. “I took the advantage in the last climb, I took ahead of the descent to manage to surprise them in the last climb (…). The basic plan was to be placed in front, and in the end I left for the stage victory”he savor just after arrival.

The Briton's victory represents the great satisfaction of the day for the Visma-Lease A Bike training, which has not succeeded in parallel to destabilize the general classification despite several attacks at the head of the peloton. 25 kilometers from the finish, the Americans Matteo Jorgenson and Sepp Kuss launched hostilities, but without succeeding in winning Tadej Pogacar.

Jorgenson gave a layer of it five kilometers from the line, without success, and it was ultimately the Slovenian who accelerated in the last climb of the day towards Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy, Jonas Vingegaard solidly installed in his wheel. Without his lieutenant Joa Almeida, who abandoned Sunday, and despite a reduced pavel Sivakov and who races in the gruppetto on Monday, Pogacar resisted the demonstration of collective force, and did not concedes anything to his main opponent.

The title holder still leaves his jersey to Ben Healy, third of the day after a huge job to take the survivors of the escape at the end of the course and gradually nibble. Four days after his first victory on the big loop at Vire Normandie on the evening of the 6th stage, the runner EF Education-Easypost rose to the top of the general classification, a first for an Irish since 1987. After having taken a small break in the final, Kévin Vauquelin, first French, slides in 6th place, 2'26 '' from Healy. And on this national holiday day, the French were not to be outdone with the solid performance of Lenny Martinez, 8th of the day, and which above all, puts on the polka dot jersey of best climber.