Healy denied second Tour de France stage win

HOT PURSUIT: Ben Healy, right, chases home Valentin Paret-Peintre on stage 16t of the Tour de France. Picture: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty

Ben Healy was denied victory on Mont Ventoux by a bike length as Valentin Paret-Peintre delivered a first home stage win of this year's Tour de France.

Tadej Pogacar dealt with every attack attempted by rival Jonas Vingegaard and even put a couple of seconds into him at the finish to move four minutes 15 clear in yellow, but stage 16 went to the breakaway at the summit of this most feared of Tour climbs.