Sunday 20: 13:20โ13:30 โ 17:05โ17:30
The last stage of this short sequence, starting from Toulouse suburbs with a bit of flat and the comeback of the Lauragais hills we visited a bit on Wednesday before a couple of serious climbs in the Montagne Noire and a long downhill/flat finish, is probably the less stereotyped stage we've had so far. It looks open to many different rider profiles.
Yeah it was very strange tactics from Visma again today. Storer and Simmons were also very critical of Campenaerts after the stage, saying he refused to work with the rest of the group to catch Wellens because "Wout is behind" even though Van Aert was well behind and realistically out of contention at that point. Funnily enough, Campenaerts also said something similar about Wellens - that he was refusing to work all day and won as a result. I get the feeling that the other teams didn't expect another UAE win today (and even UAE didn't plan for a win with Wellens only finding himself up the front due to the cirumstancces of the split after the crash) so there was a lot of frustration after the stage about the missed opportunity.