Tour de France 2022: Dylan Groenewegen wins stage three – live!

LIVE – Updated at 16:54

The Dutchman narrowly won a sprint in three-way photo-finish with overall leader Wout van Aert and Jasper Philipsen.

Looks like, as happened yesterday, Tadej Pogacar narrowly escaped being the victim of a crash. Here’s the GC as they enter the rest day.

Here’s today’s third-stage results.

Finish profile: flat. Stage winners

Dylan Groenewegen, the third-stage victor, speaks.

It was a long way (back). I want to say thank you to my team and my family and friends for getting me back to the Tour in good shape. It’s beautiful. Not physically but mentally it’s been a hard time of course after all that happened. This is for my wife and my son, it means a lot. Groenewegen said he had been held up in a late crash that split the peloton a little over 10km from the line, though he was in the right place when it mattered. “Yesterday I was a little bit angry with myself but today, though I was a long time boxed in and involved in a crash with nine kilometres to go, my team brought me back into position and I stayed calm to the end.

Jakobsen too far back? Morkov takes the lead-out, and Laporte, Sagan and Van Aert, it’s a blanket finish and Dylan Groenewegen sneaks in, and that’s come from nowhere. Meanwhile, there’s been a crash back in the field. Time to count back the carnage. Groenewegen lunged between Van Aert, Laporte and Sagan to lunge home. Van Aert is second for a third stage in a row.

The reasons for Dylan Groenewegen’s tears may lie in his being the other rider involved in the crash that put Fabio Jakobsen into a coma.

From last year:

Jakobsen was taken to hospital after colliding with Dylan Groenewegen and crashing into barriers during the first stage of the race in Poland last August. He