{"id":7843,"date":"2025-07-10T23:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/?p=7843"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:02:48","slug":"stage-6-is-one-for-the-emerald-isle-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/2025\/07\/10\/stage-6-is-one-for-the-emerald-isle-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 6 is one for the Emerald Isle\/Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color:#D06060\">Stage 6 is one for the Emerald Isle\/Birmingham<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-07-10T23:02:47+01:00\">10 July 2025<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/stage-6-tdf-2025-break-700.jpg\" alt=\"The break on Stage 6 TDF 2025, by A.S.O.\/Billy Ceusters\" class=\"wp-image-7845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/stage-6-tdf-2025-break-700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/stage-6-tdf-2025-break-700-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/stage-6-tdf-2025-break-700-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The break on Stage 6 TDF 2025, by A.S.O.\/Billy Ceusters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Healy, the Irishman from Kingswinford near Dudley, scored a memorable victory from the breakaway on Stage 6 of the 2025 Tour de France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as Healy, the break featured Quinn Simmons, Harold Tejada, Mathieu van der Poel and Will Barta. They were joined by Simon Yates, Michael Storer and Eddie Dunbar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Healy made a break from the breakaway with 42km left. He built a lead of well over 2 minutes and soloed to the finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next in were Quinn Simmons and Michael Storer, followed by the rest of the breakaway riders in dribs and drabs, including a tiring Van der Poel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van der Poel just did enough to re-take the yellow jersey from Pogacar by 1s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no other significant changes in the time gaps on GC in the top 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Highlights<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These are video highlights of Stage 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T9Y9pGHF18c?si=s52F1pbVT3AIk7fq\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 6 is one for the Emerald Isle\/Birmingham Ben Healy, the Irishman from Kingswinford near Dudley, scored a memorable victory from the breakaway on Stage 6 of the 2025 Tour de France. As well as Healy, the break featured Quinn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,152,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cycling","category-tour-de-france-2025","category-tour-de-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7843\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogcycling.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}