Dan Martin has set about taking mountains points on the Tour de France stage 11 on the road to Mont Ventoux today. He put in a significant sprint to take the maximum 10 points atop the cat 1 Col de la Liguière.
Martin (Israel Start-Up Nation) was in a four-man breakaway at the time with Pierre Rolland (B&B Hotels p/b KTM), world champion Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Anthony Perez (Cofidis, Solutions Crédits).
They were caught by a 13-man chasing group with about 100km to go just as they reached the lower slops of Mont Ventoux, for the first of the two ascents of the mountain on today's stage.
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Those 13 riders were: Pierre-Luc Perichon (Cofidis), Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R Citroën), Quentin Pacher (B&B Hotels KTM), Vegard Stake Laengen (UAE Team Emirates), Nils Politt (Bora-hansgrohe), Kristian Sbaragli (Alpecin-Fenix), Luke Durbridge (BikeExchange), Greg Van Avermaet (AG2R Citroën), Xandro Meurisse(Alpecin-Fenix) and the Trek Segafredo trio of Bauke Mollema, Julian Bernard and Kenny Elissonde.
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When the 13 riders caught Dan Martin and the three others he was with, the large breakaway group had five minutes on the yellow jersey group, which was being led by Ineos Grenadiers. The British team looked like they were trying to set up a move from Richard Carapaz or were riding to make it hard on his rivals for the final podium.
Unfortunately, shortly after the hardest section of the first ascent of Ventoux began Dan Martin missed a split in the breakaway. He then got into difficulty, being distanced by the second half of that breakaway.
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