Stage 7 kicked off with a fierce fight for the breakaway. After an hour, the race averaged a blistering 29mph. Finally, a five-rider breakaway established itself and was allowed a maximum gap of just under 2 minutes with UAE Team Emirates and Alpecin-Deceuninck intent on keeping the gap small enough for their leaders,

XRG team bus beyond the finish line, unsure if he had kept or lost the Tour de France leader's yellow jersey but convinced that Visma-Lease a Bike had tried to keep him in yellow and play tactical mind games yet again.

Tadej Pogačar sprinted to his second win of the opening week of the Tour de France on stage seven, conquering the climb at Mûr-de-Bretagne (Guerlédan). The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider was chased to the line by Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) but did enough to take victory and take back the yellow jersey.