Tour de France stage 7 Live – Will Van der Poel cling onto the yellow jersey or does another GC shake-up beckon?

Van Aert and Schmid only have a lead of about 5 seconds over the chasing peloton.

Mauro Schmid joins Van Aert, as the race behind looks aout to reform.

Wout van Aert was in that group, and has gone off the front of it and now leads the race alone.

A group of about 15 riders have gone off the front right from the flag.

And we’re off!

OFFICIAL START

It’s a beautiful day in Brittany – here were the riders at the unofficial start

The riders will see the flag in just a few minutes. After yesterday’s breakaway success, we imagine many will want to get up the road today, so this could be another frenetic start.

Mathieu van der Poel, back in the yellow jersey.

It certainly is a day for the beach – the temperature is in the mid twenties, so the riders are in for another uncomfortably hot day in the saddle.

The riders are on the move, making their way along the seaside in Saint-Malo in the neutralised zone.

Here are the rankings as they stand going into today’s seventh stage.

Yesterday’s stage threw up an interesting tactical battle between Visma-Lease a Bike and UAE Team Emirates-XRG. Here’s what world champion Tadej Pogačar had to say about the situation.

READ: ‘Visma tried to do, I don’t know what…’ – Tadej Pogačar irritated by rival tactics to try to keep him in the Tour de France yellow jersey