Tour de France 2020: stage 19 – live!

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1.07pm BST

We now have a chasing group a minute off Cavagna, with the peloton dropping the pace and now a further minute back. They are: Dylan van Baarle (Ineos), Max Walscheid (NTT), Paul Griffin (Guardian-Liveblogs), Guillaume Martin (Cofidis), Cyril Barthe (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) and Geoffrey Soupe (Total-Direct Énergie).

1.04pm BST

We saw Lukas Pöstlberger getting some ointment from the Bora-Hansgrohe team car a few minutes ago. It now emerges that he’s abandoned the race – after a bee stung him on the mouth. Eek, sounds nasty.

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A bee stung Lukas in the mouth.
hope he will be fine pic.twitter.com/IqOsXxgMBf

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source: theguardian.com