Pic of Day: Irish rider Ben Healy Pictured on the podium in a screenshot from NBC/Peacock coverage) is wearing the yellow jersey in the Tour de France after finishing third on Monday’s Stage Ten in the mountainous Massif Central. Healy is also wearing the white jersey as best young rider, and is additionally standing second in the King of the Mountains category.
Just four days after Healy took the outright win in Stage Six, the 24-year-old Irish rider pulled off a massive time gain during the first big day of climbs on the 163km from Ennezat to Le Mont-Dore Puy de Sancy. All unfolding on Bastille Day too, the Irish Times was reporting.
Healy, who won that Stage Six in Normandy, is 29 seconds ahead of the field going into Stage Eleven. He is only the fourth Irish rider to wear the yellow jersey (maillot jeune) and is the first since Stephen Roche wore it for three days during his Tour win year, 1987. Healy rides for U.S. team EF Education–EasyPost.
