Wednesday 16: 13:15โ13:45 โ 17:05โ17:25
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
- B. Healy ๐ฎ๐ช EF
- T. Pogatchar ๐ธ๐ฎ UAE โ 29โณ
- R. Evenepoel ๐ง๐ช Soudal-QS โ 1โฒ29โณ
- J. Vingegaard ๐ฉ๐ฐ Visma โ 1โฒ46โณ
- M. Jorgenson ๐บ๐ธ Visma โ 2โฒ06โณ
- K. Vauquelin ๐ซ๐ท Arkรฉa โ 2โฒ26โณ
- O. Onley ๐ฌ๐ง Picnic โ 3โฒ24โณ
- F. Lipowitz ๐ฉ๐ช Bora โ 3โฒ34โณ
- P. Roglitch ๐ธ๐ฎ Bora โ 3โฒ41โณ
- T. Johannessen ๐ณ๐ด Uno-X โ 5โฒ03โณ
Points
- J. Milan ๐ฎ๐น Lidl-Trek โ 227 pts
- T. Pogatchar ๐ธ๐ฎ UAE โ 163
- B. Girmay ๐ช๐ท Intermarchรฉ โ 151
- T. Merlier ๐ง๐ช Soudal-QS โ 150
- M. Van der Poel ๐ณ๐ฑ Alpecin โ 128
Mountain
- L. Martinez ๐ซ๐ท Barhrain โ 27 pts
- B. Healy ๐ฎ๐ช EF โ 16
- M. Woods ๐จ๐ฆ IPT โ 11
Teams
- Visma ๐ณ๐ฑ
- UAE ๐ฆ๐ช โ 16โฒ45โณ
- Decathlon ๐ซ๐ท โ 28โฒ12โณ
- FDJ ๐ซ๐ท โ 29โฒ07โณ
- Arkรฉa ๐ซ๐ท โ 29โฒ41โณ
Nooo, they crashed Pogaฤar!
Looked to me like he crashed himself on the back wheel of an UnoX rider.
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.
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.
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.
I just watched it again and you're right ๐
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.
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.
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.