In the end it was incredibly close, but in the final kilometer of Stage 9 of the Tour de France, Mathieu van der Poel was eventually caught. The Dutchman from Alpecin-Deceuninck had teamed up with his teammate Jonas Rickaert for a two-man attack,

Irish rider Ben Healy won a hilly sixth stage of the Tour de France after a long solo breakaway on Thursday and Mathieu van der Poel took back the yellow jersey from defending champion Tadej Pogacar by one second.