Stage 12 TDF 2023 Blog: Nouveau Winner in Beaujolais

Stage 12 was always likely to be a hard-fought breakaway affair, and so it proved.

I had Ion Izagirre pencilled in for Stage 14, because he won on a very similar parcours to Morzine in 2016. Instead, he went and won Stage 12.

He made a break from the break on the climb of the Col de la Croix Rosier, gained more time on the descent, and maintained the gap to the finish in Belleville-en-Beaujolais.

Thibaut Pinot finished sixth on the stage and moved up to tenth on GC.

Video Highlights

These are video highlights of Stage 12 Tour de France 2023.

What Happened Earlier

The breakaway took a long time to go and was very hard-fought. Among the riders trying to get in the lead group were Wout van Aert and Fred Wright.

In the end 15 riders formed a breakaway: Tiesj Benoot, Thibaut Pinot, Andrey Amador, Mads Pedersen, Mathieu van der Poel, Guillaume Martin, Ion Izagirre, Ruben Guerreiro, Matteo Jorgenson, Dylan Teuns, Victor Campenaerts, Tobias Halland, Mathieu Burgaudeau, Julian Alaphilippe and Jasper Stuyven.

At one point AGR were setting the pace on the front of the yellow jersey group. This was to further the GC interests of Felix Gall, since Mikel Landa, Emanuel Buchmann and Sepp Kuss were off the back at that time.

Out of the Race

Fabio Jakobsen did not start Stage 12 after injuries he suffered on Stage 4 failed to heal. David de la Cruz crashed on Stage 12 and abandoned the race.