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Wednesday 16: 13:15โ€“13:45 โ†’ 17:05โ€“17:25

We start the short second sequence (5 days only) with a short stage around Toulouse, yet another stage designed for punchers.


Standings after the first long sequence:

General classification

  1. B. Healy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช EF
  2. T. Pogatchar ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ UAE โ€“ 29โ€ณ
  3. R. Evenepoel ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Soudal-QS โ€“ 1โ€ฒ29โ€ณ
  4. J. Vingegaard ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Visma โ€“ 1โ€ฒ46โ€ณ
  5. M. Jorgenson ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Visma โ€“ 2โ€ฒ06โ€ณ
  6. K. Vauquelin ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Arkรฉa โ€“ 2โ€ฒ26โ€ณ
  7. O. Onley ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง Picnic โ€“ 3โ€ฒ24โ€ณ
  8. F. Lipowitz ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Bora โ€“ 3โ€ฒ34โ€ณ
  9. P. Roglitch ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ Bora โ€“ 3โ€ฒ41โ€ณ
  10. T. Johannessen ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด Uno-X โ€“ 5โ€ฒ03โ€ณ

Points

  1. J. Milan ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Lidl-Trek โ€“ 227 pts
  2. T. Pogatchar ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ UAE โ€“ 163
  3. B. Girmay ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ท Intermarchรฉ โ€“ 151
  4. T. Merlier ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Soudal-QS โ€“ 150
  5. M. Van der Poel ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ Alpecin โ€“ 128

Mountain

  1. L. Martinez ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Barhrain โ€“ 27 pts
  2. B. Healy ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช EF โ€“ 16
  3. M. Woods ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ IPT โ€“ 11

Teams

  1. Visma ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  2. UAE ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช โ€“ 16โ€ฒ45โ€ณ
  3. Decathlon ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท โ€“ 28โ€ฒ12โ€ณ
  4. FDJ ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท โ€“ 29โ€ฒ07โ€ณ
  5. Arkรฉa ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท โ€“ 29โ€ฒ41โ€ณ
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[โ€“] Deschanel2017@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hectic race from the start until the end. Raced like a classic from which you'd have cut the boring first 100 km! Very little actual flat, but a lot of false flats in a hilly landscape, even before they reached the steeper hills of Lauragais (the last 50 km).

Q. Simmons in the shape of his life again, but one more time a bit short in the end. He hasn't spared his efforts since the beginning of the tour: when he's not ahead, he's either trying to get ahead, or working for his team.

Astonishing performance from the winners who started soon after km 0 and resisted non-stop counter attacks all day!

(And disastrous TV direction again. Not sure if you get the same final cut on the international signal, but showing cycling really hurts the French TV director...)

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nooo, they crashed Pogaฤar!

[โ€“] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Looked to me like he crashed himself on the back wheel of an UnoX rider.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The rider in front (Johannessen Tobias) steered right in front of Tadej and hence touching Tadej's front wheel. How is this Tadej's fault? At least that's my impression.

[โ€“] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's probably not anyone's fault, but typically riders will follow each other's movement so it does not happen. But it happens a lot, so... Just a part of racing.

Just read that Vingegaard and the others waited for him, fair play to them.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I disagree, the rider "in front" (he wasn't in front, he was on the left perhaps a bit more ahead, but not by full bike length) has to make sure he doesn't cut in front of others recklessly. And yes, chapeau to peloton for playing fair, they indeed waited.

[โ€“] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 2 points 1 week ago

I just watched it again and you're right ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope it doesn't affect him. It would suck for the Pogacar vs Vingegaard showdown to influenced by injury for the third year in a row. Only 4(?) days until the next rest day at least.

[โ€“] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

These injuries ("only" burned skin, hopefully, but I guess also at least a impact where he hit the road) are painful at very least. It will affect him, but let's hope not to bad extent.

[โ€“] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 1 points 1 week ago

At the very least he will sleep worse, which will hurt his restitution. So it's decent news for Visma, though I don't think they wished for it it's part of cycling to race in a way which pushes the other teams and riders to take risks and sometimes the result is a crash.