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Groves won Stage 20 with a late solo breakaway, while Pogačar rolled over the line about seven minutes later in the same time as Jonas Vingegaard.
Every stage of the 2025 Tour de France airs live on Peacock from July 5-27.
Although race leader Pogačar took a step closer to a fourth Tour title, the Slovenian star could not catch Arensman. He finished the stage in third place behind Dane Jonas Vingegaard, who just beat Pogačar to the line.
The stage from Albertville to La Plagne was meant to be 129.9 kilometers (80.5 miles) long but was trimmed to 93.1 kilometers (57.7 miles), according to the official Tour website’s stage map on Friday.
Ineos-Grenadiers soigneur David Rozman has left the Tour de France in the wake of media reports linking him to disgraced German doctor Mark Schmidt, the convicted head of an international blood doping ring.
Stage 18 featured three extremely difficult ascents, including the 26.4-kilometer daunting climb of the Col de La Loze up to the finish. At 2,304 meters of altitude, La Loze is the highest summit in this year’s Tour.
Lizzie Deignan, who was the first British athlete to win a medal on home soil at the 2012 London Olympics, previously had announced that she would call it quits at the end of the season.
Rodriguez crashed on Wednesday and hospital scans confirmed the fracture, his team said in a statement a few hours before the start of Stage 18.
There was no significant change in the overall standings with three-time Tour champion Pogačar maintaining his lead of 4 minutes, 15 seconds over main rival Jonas Vingegaard.
Every stage of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes airs live on Peacock from July 26-Aug. 3.
