Hello and welcome to live coverage of stage 12 of the Tour de France as the race hits the Pyrenees with this gruelling 214.5km ride from Pau to Peyragudes, culminating with the second of three mountain-top finishes in this year's race.

Tour de France

Stage 12 | Mountain | Men | 13.07.2017

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Updated 13/07/2017 at 15:08 GMT

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16:07

And here's the new top ten, with Fabio Aru leapfrogging Froome by six seconds...

16:06

Here's the top ten today, with Landa, Meintjes and Martin all finishing above Froome after he hit the wall on the Peyragudes airstrip.

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So, Bardet won that by two seconds ahead of Rigoberto Uran, who pipped Fabio Aru.

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Froome couldn't deal with that crazy gradient and he came home more than 20 seconds down... Aru was third - but with the bonus seconds, it puts him in the lead by about six seconds I think...

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Fabio Aru is the new yellow jersey!

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Victory for Romain Bardet of Ag2R-La Mondiale!

0.2km

Froome cannot cope with this slope...

0.3km

Aru makes the first move on the ramp... with Martin behind and then Bardet and Ura... Froome struggling...

0.5km

Bennett is reeled in after his rush of blood to the head... and they're approaching that ramp now.

0.7km

Bennett attacks! No reaction from the others...

1km

Landa still leads this nine-man leading break as they approach the flamme rouge... Dan Martin moves up now...

1.3km

Quintana is riding with Barguil and Caruso. They may catch Contador before the finish...

2km

Nieve has dropped back so Froome *just* has Landa now. Aru and Bardet are tucked in behind, but they're entirely impotent for now.

2.5km

They're onto the final Cat.2 climb to Peyragudes (2.4km at 8.4%).

3km

That last climb was the reverse of the descent that Froome rinsed en route to winning in Bagneres-de-Luchon last year. He's now doing his frame-hugging again in this little downhill run towards the final climb to the finish.

5km

Nieve takes the maximum 10pts over the summit with Landa picking up 8pts and Froome 6pts. No big change in the polka dot standings, so Barguil won't be too concerned - although the likes of Froome and Martin are lurking.

5.5km

Contador is starting to lose ground now near the summit...

6km

Just one kilometre from the summit now and this is pretty turgid stuff, Sky squeezing the life out of this stage and the race in general.

6.5km

Here was that earlier scare for Froome and Aru, who followed Nieve off the road and towards some caravans.

7km

Quintana is rallying but he's over a minute back on this penultimate climb, with 2km of the ascent still to go.

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