LIVE Stage 14, 2026 Tour de France | Pogacar vs Vingegaard in the Vosges, or will the break have a say?

And so we’ve already reached weekend three of the 2026 Tour de France. We’re kicking it off with a mountain stage through the Vosges, in which the riders will have to climb 3,800 meters of elevation gain over a course of just over 150 kilometers. IDL Pro Cycling brings you all the action from the start right through to the finish!

The riders will start in Mulhouse, not far from the tri-border area of France, Switzerland, and Germany. In fact, Mulhouse even shares an airport with Freiburg (Germany) and Basel in Switzerland. We won’t be heading there now, though, because a grueling stage through the Vosges awaits the riders.

There are plenty of climbs along the route, but the toughest part comes at the end. The Col du Haag starts off steep with a 3.9-kilometer stretch at a 9.1 percent gradient, followed by a short descent. After that, the climb gradually steepens again, with a final 1.6 kilometers at a gradient of more than 10 percent.

At the top of the climb, which has an average gradient of 7.3 percent over 11.2 kilometers, there are still seven kilometers to go to Le Markstein. We’ve reached that point once before in the Tour de France, in 2023. Tadej Pogacar won that stage, after having definitively lost the Tour de France to Jonas Vingegaard a few days earlier.

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