Fireworks On Alpe d’Huez! | Tour De France 2022 Stage 12 Highlights

The Queen Stage of the race falls on Bastille Day. It's a 165km-long slog from Briançon to Alpe d’Huez that features a whopping 4,630m of climbing! The Galibier (23km at 5.1%) returns for the second successive day, followed by the Col de la Croix de Fer (29km at 5.2%) and crescendoes on the storied slopes of Alpe d'Huez (13.7km at 8%).

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[pauljakeman]

Great to see Froome back up the front again after those injuries. Love this TDF so far.

[SecwetGwiwer]

Froome proving that it ain’t over until you say it’s over. Go Chris!

[ndegraafndg]

Way to go Froome, looked good and good to see him fighting up front again and finishing there as well.

[susanhill]

Pidcocks victory outstanding. Geraint still with a good chance of podium finish. One of best TDFs I've seen.

[errickrichardson]

Piddcock's mountain bike skills in full effect. Its really fun to watch these guys cross over and do well.

[frodo]

Chris Froome should have gotten most combative rider just because he is back. This dude was fighting since 2019, nobody beats that.

[sparky]

What a day, Pidcock just amazing and to top it all seeing Froomey back at the front, big Fan of both 👏👏👏🇬🇧

[Whitewater]

I'm still stoked to see Powless up there banging at the front and look forward to him eventually taking a stage!

[edymarkonthego]

Nice to see Froome out front. Top 3 isn’t bad at all.

[alf]

Bravo! Chris Froome, go, go, champion!

[kgarg]

Damn, Roglic is just too strong a domestique. He is burning himself out every stage to make sure there is no competetion left for Vingo except Pogacar. Dropping Quintana and Bardet was immense effort. And finally we get to see the Kuss at his best again..Vingo is just playing with Pogacar now, easily on his wheel everytime, dropping every one else when needed.

[AlexRochette]

Pidcock is a prodigy!

Olympic Gold in Mountain Back, WC in Cross Country, and now the Alpe d’Huez stage!

[christobessinger]

“This rider, the South African climber” 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 those words mades me so proud, Meintjies jou Yster

[korpulian]

Pidcock's descent will be taught in cycling schools. One of the best I've ever seen.

[allanvirimai]

I love how roglic has transformed from a GC contender to a super domestique

[nobodyjones]

Amazing pidcock.. this time next year I hope yoir in yellow.. and froomey, , , , what a ride. Well done chris nice to see 👏👏👏👏

[robertmuiruri]

The winner of this stage to me is froome. The guy put a load of work today

[suhdud]

Meintjes, your time will come boet! Keep it up.
The energy from the fans on this stage was electric.

[fleezy]

Im a Tadej fan and i am glad Tadej experienced what he did in stage 11, it will only make him stronger for the future. He had to experience what it feels like to break and now he knows his limits and what to train for. Vingegaard will win this year and if both are healthy next year it will be a battle. Vingegaard was lucky this year he has 2x times stronger team then pogaca. Pogaca ran out of energy when Vingegaard got away because Pogacar did not feed enough.

[andyz]

Good on ya Froomey. Keep it up. Podium next year!