Two-time Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard on today's final: "It's just, in general, a very hard climb. It's 13.5km so it's a very long climb. It will take between 30 and 40 minutes to climb it so, in general, I think today will be a hard day."

The multi-ramped 13.5km ski station climb has hosted some barnstormer yellow jersey battles, most recently when Vingegaard and Wout van Aert turned the screw on Pogačar to romp to a victory that sealed the Dane’s first Tour de France win.