Sorgues > Malaucène

Distance: 198.9 kilometers.

A Mountain stage with two Cat 4, two Cat 1, and an Hors Catégorie. The finish is a 1600 meter descent over 22 kilometers.

• Côte de Fontaine-de-Vaucluse 32.1 km (cat 4: 1.9km @ 6.0%)
• Côte de Gordes 43.7 km (cat 4: 2.5km @ 5.1%)
• Col de la Liguière 83.6 km(cat 1: 9.3km @ 6.7%)
• Mont Ventoux 122.5 km (cat 1: 22.0km @ 5.1%)
• Mont Ventoux 176.9 km (Hors Catégorie: 15.7km @ 8.8%)

The intermediate sprint is at 40.2 km at Les Imberts.

Tadej Pogačar (UAD – 001) [Yellow] 43 hours 44 minutes 38 seconds
Mark Cavendish (DQT – 055) [Green] 218 Points
Nairo Quintana (ARK – 136) [Polka Dot] 50 points
Jonas Vingegaard (TJV – 018) [White] 3*

Stage winner: Wout Van Aert (TJV – 012)
Combative: Kenny Elissonde (TFS – 043 ) [Red numbers]
Team: Bahrain Victorious ( TBV – 161-168 ) [Yellow numbers]

*Number 2 is wearing the White as Number 1 is wearing Yellow.

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Position: 32.1N 82.3W [10:00PM CDT 0300UTC].
Movement: North-Northeast [025°] near 16 mph [26 kph].
Maximum sustained winds: 45 mph [ 85 kph].
Wind Gusts: 60 mph [ 95 kph].
Tropical Storm Wind Radius: 115 miles [185 km].
Minimum central pressure: 1006 mb.

Currently about 80 miles [ 125 km] Northwest of Brunswick, Georgia.

At 10AM CDT Elsa is coming ashore in Taylor County, Florida.

A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect from Little River Inlet, South Carolina to Great Egg Inlet, New Jersey including Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds, Chesapeake Bay south of North Beach and the tidal Potomac south of Cobb Island and Delaware Bay south of Slaughter Beach.

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