'It was pure, hand on heart racing': Inside the Tour de France's hardest, hottest stage

A lumpy post-rest day in the Puy-de-Dôme département saw relentless action from the gun

The breakaway on stage 10 of the Tour de France 2023
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It was hot in France on Tuesday. So hot that thirty départements were issued with heat wave warnings by the national meteorological agency. This included the Puy-de-Dôme, where the entirety of the 10th stage of the 2023 Tour de France would be raced.

Temperatures soared through the volcanic landscape of the Auvergne, so much that journalists were instructed that a defibrillator and a first aid kit were on hand in the press room, should they be needed.

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