Tour de France 2022, stage 14: Live updates as 23-man breakaway leads race through Massif Central

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The breakaway's advantage over the lined-out peloton has increased to 9min 10sec.

Interesting to not that three teams – Bora-Hansgrohe, EF Education-EasyPost and Israel-Premier Tech – each have a trio of riders in the breakaway, while Groupama-FDJ and Trek-Segafredo have two apiece. From a purely numbers perspective, you would have to favour riders from one of those teams to win the stage today. Thibaut Pinot will not have fond memories of the tough finale after he was pick-pocketed by Steve Cummings here in 2015. There are plenty of strong riders in here able to challenge for this type of stage. 

It is extremely hot out on the road today and the temperature is expected to rise as the stage nears boiling point in Mende. Riders will need to keep hydrated throughout the afternoon. Jumbo-Visma were just spotted taking on some liquids. 

That little Jakob Fuglsang group has been pulled back by the breakaway, the 23-man group now leads the peloton by 7min 32sec.

As the road pitched up on an unclassified stretch of road, Jakob Fuglsang shifted to the front of the breakaway and pressed down on the pedals a little harder in an effort to cause a split. Stefan Küng, Neilson Powless and Luis León Sánchez manage to go with the veteran monument winner, but I suspect they will be reined back in pretty soon – it is probably a little too early in the stage to blow the group to pieces, an with a stage win up for grabs nobody will be too keen on that quartet chipping off already.

It was a fast and frenetic start to the stage with wave after wave of attacks flowing off the front of the peloton.