The Giro winner triumphed at Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy (Puy-de-Dôme) on Monday, July 14. Ben Healy is the new general classification leader, ahead of Tadej Pogacar, while Frenchman Lenny Martinez wins the polka-dot jersey for best climber.

Tour de France 2025 ranking and points table:

Ben Healy (Ireland, EF Education-EasyPost)
Tadej Pogačar (Slovenia, UAE Emirates-XRG)
Remco Evenepoel (Belgium, Soudal Quick-Step)
Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark, Team Visma Lease a bike)
Matteo Jorgenson (United States, Team Visma Lease a bike)
Kevin Vauquelin (France, Arkea-B & B Hotels)
Oscar Onley (UK, Team Picnic-PostNL)
Florian Lipowitz (Germany, RedBull-Bora-Hansgroe)
Primož Roglič (Slovenia, RedBull-Bora-Hansgrohe)
Tobias Johannessen (Norway, Uno-X)

Jersey Color at Tour de France 2025

There was movement everywhere, except for the green shirt, which Jonathan Milan kept. Ben Healy (24 years old) also won the white jersey for best young player, beating Remco Evenepoel and Kévin Vauquelin.

The individual in the yellow jersey is Ben Healy from EF Education-EasyPost.

🟢 The green jersey (points): Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek).

⚪ Ben Healy (EF Education-EasyPost) received the white jersey for being the best young player.

🚵 Climber Lenny Martinez (Bahrain-Victorious) wearing the polka dot jersey.

700 meters. That’s what Mathieu van der Poel missed on Sunday to avoid being seen by the peloton.

We’ve seen breakaways caught much closer to the finish line, but the feat would have been magnificent if Raymond Poulidor’s grandson had made his escape in the first few meters with his teammate, Jonas Rickaert.

A two-man ride that the peloton didn’t take seriously, even though van der Poel is one of the biggest drivers in the sport.

The favourable wind complicated the chase for a pack that rode so hard on the flat roads leading to Châteauroux that the average speed made it the fastest stage of the 21st edition century.

This shows the prowess of the double winner of Milan-San Remo, who finished alone (2023, 2025), after saying goodbye to his runaway comrade who could not take it anymore.

The relationship between the individual and the collective: this is one of the main challenges – and pleasures – of cycling, which often obeys the law of numbers, which posits that the escapees will always be eaten by the peloton in the end, like a mouse eaten by a cat in a Tex Avery cartoon. The interplay between the masses and the escapees is comparable to a precise science of nibbling.

One minute every 10 kilometers—that’s what a peloton would gain at full throttle, according to an unwritten cycling theorem. Mathematicians in their spare time, the riders know this iron law concocted by a timekeeping mind.

This is also the report from the central committees to the dissidents who have been brought to their senses. The suspense will lie in knowing whether this law will once again be verified or refuted.

Will the small prevail against the big? Does the individual stand a chance against the collectives of big thighs? Will the deviationists win the day for daring to believe in the impossible freedom? Cycling is one of the rare sports to offer us this configuration and this gamble of a chase whose outcome is only known in the final meters.

Van der Poel’s mouse was trapped by the peloton’s frenzied cats and the sprinters promised this stage, but he recreated the fighter’s admirable final stand, the desperado who sells his flesh for a high price.

The mouse occasionally escapes the insatiable appetite of his pursuers, who are competing for victory. And occasionally, like Sunday, he is cruelly consumed by the mob, which hasn’t spared him a single glance, fixated on the oncoming finish line.

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