Pidcock up to fourth as Schmid wins Tour breakawayImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Tom Pidcock came close to winning on the Tour’s longest stageByMatt WarwickBBC Sport Senior JournalistPublished19 minutes agoBritain’s Tom Pidcock is up to fourth place overall in the Tour de France standings after a breakaway from which Switzerland’s Mauro Schmid won stage 13.Pinarello-Q36.5’s Pidcock finished third on the demanding 205.8km run from Dole to Belfort, making up six places in the general classification as he and several others finished more than seven minutes ahead of the peloton. Schmid, of Jayco-Alula, took the win from Colombia’s Harold Tejada of XDS-Astana on the line after the pair pulled away from the larger breakaway group on a long descent with about 16km to go. Pidcock – who was one of the favourites to win the stage once the breakaway was formed and fought hard to pull away on the category one Ballon d’Alsace climb – brought home six others to finish just two seconds behind Schmid and Tejada. The Briton, 26, now sits four minutes and 15 seconds behind yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, who had a quiet day in the peloton, as did second-placed rider overal Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark – three minutes and 36 seconds down overall – and Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel, who is four minutes and six seconds off the lead.Pogacar, 27, is aiming to become the joint-most successful rider in the Tour’s history with five wins, alongside Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.”I don’t really have voice left,” stated Pidcock’s team manager Doug Ryder to TNT Sports afterwards. “Tom was brilliant… the whole team rode so well – the commitment to [getting into] the break was so brilliant. “Tom is a fighter and has really turned the race upside down and made it exciting. What he did today is pretty cool.”Denmark’s Mads Pedersen of Lidl-Trek remains in the green jersey by 41 points over Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen. Image gallerySkip image gallery
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Image caption, It’s been a whole World Cup cycle since we saw Pidcock win so brilliantly on Alpe d’Huez
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Slide 1 of 5, Tom Pidcock, It’s been a whole World Cup cycle since we saw Pidcock win so brilliantly on Alpe d’Huez
