Tour de France cyclists battle 4-time champion Tadej Pogačar — and intense heat

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The Tour de France, one of the world’s great races, kicked off in neighbouring Spain on July 4.

The world’s best cyclists are in the midst of grinding through more than 3,000 kilometres over three weeks.

Here are some of the best photos from the event so far.

Two cyclists in full racing gear smile at each other.

(Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters)

Above, Slovenian Tadej Pogačar, wearing the yellow jersey, and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the polka-dot jersey, share a smile before the start of Stage 8 on July 11.

Four-time Tour de France champion Pogačar launched a blistering solo attack late on Tuesday’s 10th stage to claim victory and extend his overall lead ahead of Vingegaard to three minutes and 36 seconds.

The race is broken down into 21 stages and two rest days. There are eight mountain stages, seven flat stages, four hilly stages, a team time trial and an individual time trial. Below, fans cheer on Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz during Tuesday’s mountain stage.

Six young men, one holding a French flag, cheer on a cyclist right next to them going uphill.

(Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images)

The race comes amid a European heat wave. Here, fans in an inflatable pool cheer for cyclists in Tuesday’s Stage 10. It was 31 C at the race start in Aurillac.

Two people in an inflatable pool sit roadside as cyclists pass.

(Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters)

Here are some of the other striking images from the first half of the race, which wraps up on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 26.

A lone cyclist on a paved road in a mountain valley.
Colombian rider Egan Bernal cycles a descent in the French Pyrenees during the 6th stage on July 9. (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)
A long line of cyclists silhouetted against the sun, which is high in the sky.
The chasing group cycles during the 4th stage in southwestern France on July 7. (Loic Venance/AFP/Getty Images)
A cyclist with a prominent mustache yells, one hand to his chest.
American Quinn Simmons celebrates as he crosses the finish line during Stage 4 in Foix on July 7. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters)
A shot of the bicycles but not the cyclists atop them, lined up precisely but staggered.
Cyclists compete in Stage 6 in Pau on July 9. (Stephanie Lecocq/Reuters)
A line of cyclists passes a field of sunflowers.
Cyclists compete in the fifth stage in Pau on July 8. (Mosa’ab Elshamy/The Associated Press)
Two cars with "SKODA" on the back and multiple bicycles on the top drive side by side and a person in each car reaches out of the window toward each other.
Team cars share equipment during Stage 4 in Foix on July 7. (Thibault Camus/The Associated Press)
Four people on horses watch cyclists pass. One stands on the back of the horse.
Fans cheer during the second stage, which finished in Barcelona, on July 5. (Thibault Camus/The Associated Press)

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