Tour de France: Vingegaard holds onto yellow jersey, Matthews wins stage after five year wait

Pogacar's UAE Team Emirates squad had managed to isolate Vingegaard coming onto the final climb, and the defending champion launched his attack around a third of a way up the climb.

The pack waits for the start with on the front row from left Denmark's Mads Pedersen as the most combative rider of yesterday's stage, Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider's white jersey, Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, Belgium's Wout Van Aert, wearing the best sprinter's green jersey, and Germany's Simon Geschke, wearing the best climber's dotted jersey, prior to the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 192.5 kilometers (119.6 miles) with start in Saint-Etienne and finish in Mende, France, Saturday, July 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Michael Matthews rode away from Alberto Bettiol at the top of the steep climb to the airfield in Mende to win his first Tour de France stage in five years.

Stage 15 was another one to be contested from a breakaway and it was Australian Matthews who was the strongest in the searing heat, striking out first on the final three kilometre climb, where gradients were consistently in double figures.