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Chris Froome loses Tour de France lead (video)

Related Topics: Chris Froome, France, Romain Bardet

Chris Froome lost the Tour de France yellow jersey to Italian Fabio Aru by fading in the final kilometer of Stage 12 in the Pyrenees on Thursday.

France’s Romain Bardet, third in the overall standings, won the stage.

Rigoberto Uran and Aru were second and third, both two seconds behind. Froome, who entered the day with an 18-second lead on Aru, was 22 seconds back of Bardet in seventh place.

The Brit Froome is trying to move within one Tour title of the career record of five shared by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.