stage, race officials handed race leader Julian Alaphilippe a 20-second penalty for taking an illegal feed with less than 20 kilometers to go. As a result, he dropped out of the top ten and Adam Yates took the yellow jersey. Stage 63 September 2020 – Le Teil to Mont Aigoual, The peloton were content to let the breakaway decide the stage, which was mostly flat for the first 155 kilometers before offering up a series of climbs in quick succession culminating in a summit finish atop Mont Aigoual. Eight riders formed the day's breakaway: Alexey Lutsenko (), Daniel Oss (), Greg Van Avermaet (), Jesús Herrada (), Rémi Cavagna (), Neilson Powless (), Edvald Boasson Hagen (), and Nicolas Roche (). The octet reached a maximum advantage of over six minutes before the peloton began to slowly close the gap. Boasson Hagen won the intermediate sprint just ahead of Oss while the rest of the breakaway rolled through. Roger Kluge, one of Caleb Ewan's lead-out men, rolled off the front of the peloton and through the intermediate sprint, leaving only six on offer for the next rider, who was green jersey wearer Sam Bennett; Ewan himself did not seriously contest the intermediate sprint and came away with no points gained. Neither of the category 3 climbs were seriously challenged for by the breakaway, though Roche rode across first both times. On the lower slopes of the Col de la Lusette, Cavagna accelerated, dropping Boasson Hagen and Oss. Shortly after, Powless put in an attack, with Cavagna the next to be dropped. Powless put in another surge, hoping to win on his 24th birthday, attacked again, with only Lutsenko being able to follow. Eventually, the efforts took a toll on Powless, as he was unable to keep up with Lutsenko. The Kazakh road champion managed to maintain and even extend his lead over the top of the Col de la Lusette and up Mont Aigoual for the stage win. Herrada managed to claw his way back into second place, nearly a minute behind Lutsenko, while Van Avermaet outsprinted Powless for third. The main favorites finished almost three minutes down on Lutsenko, with Julian Alaphilippe sprinting away towards the end to try and claw back the time he lost due to the penalty he incurred on the previous stage, but the Frenchman was closely followed and only managed to gain back one