Soudal Quick-Step’s Valentin Paret-Peintre gave the home nation its first victory at this year’s Tour de France on Tuesday, outsprinting Ben Healy on the iconic finish at Mont Ventoux.

Tadej Pogacar has built on his lead, while Valentin Paret-Peintre gives France its first Tour de France stage victory this year.

Tadej Pogacar rampaged through the Pyrenees, winning atop Hautacam on stage 12, then demolishing the field in the time trial on stage 13, and those back-to-back wins have gone some way to ensuring the destiny of the Tour de France title is looking fairly well sewn up.