Tour de France stage seven LIVE: The general classification battle heats up as the peloton face Col d'Aspin and Col du Tourmalet

Coralie Demay (St Michel - Mavic - Auber93) breaks free from the peloton and no one goes with her.

Lizzie Deignan (Lidl - Trek) comes round the side of the group to take over at the front as the road goes up. The peloton have closed in on the small group created by Lach but they're relatively strung out.

Lach ups the pace in the peloton again with a slight attack which creates a leading group of around 10 riders with a slight gap. Lippert working her way back into the bunch with Aude Biannic (Movistar Team).

Liane Lippert (Movistar Team) is down and looks to be in some discomfort but she gets going again. Team-mate and general classification hope Van Vleuten narrowly misses the crash.

Maaike Coljé (Arkéa Pro Cycling Team) and Alena Amialiusik (UAE Team ADQ) also down by they get up quickly.

None of the prior attacks have made any distance and the peloton remain together.

Stage seven begins and we've already had an attack to start the day off! Julie De Wilde (Fenix-Deceuninck) is the protagonist followed by Alice Barnes (Human Powered Health). They're met by the peloton before Marta Lach (CERATIZIT-WNT Pro Cycling) is the next to accelerate.

You can watch the entire stage live on Eurosport and discovery+, you won't want to miss it!

Unfortunately EF Education-TIBCO-SVB's Veronica Ewers broke her collarbone in a big crash yesterday and despite finishing the stage, she won't continue the race today.

Some bad news from the Lidl-Trek bus to start the day today as both Elisa Balsamo and Elisa Longo Borghini, who was one of the favourites for today's stage, have withdrawn from the race.

Longo Borghini leaves the race due to a skin infection after a crash yesterday while Balsamo is suffering with fatigue and will focus on the World Championships which are now only a few weeks away.

Yesterday's stage saw Movistar's Emma Norsgaard manage to hold off the peloton to take the stage win from the breakaway.

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Good afternoon and welcome to stage seven of the Tour de France Femmes! It’s finally here, the highly anticipated queen stage which features both the Col d'Aspin and the Col du Tourmalet!

What a stage we’re in for today. This year’s Tour has well and truly taught us to expect the unexpected, but today should, in theory, really be one for the climbers. Will it be a breakaway win again? I’m certainly looking forward to finding out!