Wednesday 16: 13:15–13:45 → 17:05–17:25
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
- B. Healy 🇮🇪 EF
- T. Pogatchar 🇸🇮 UAE – 29″
- R. Evenepoel 🇧🇪 Soudal-QS – 1′29″
- J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 1′46″
- M. Jorgenson 🇺🇸 Visma – 2′06″
- K. Vauquelin 🇫🇷 Arkéa – 2′26″
- O. Onley 🇬🇧 Picnic – 3′24″
- F. Lipowitz 🇩🇪 Bora – 3′34″
- P. Roglitch 🇸🇮 Bora – 3′41″
- T. Johannessen 🇳🇴 Uno-X – 5′03″
Points
- J. Milan 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 227 pts
- T. Pogatchar 🇸🇮 UAE – 163
- B. Girmay 🇪🇷 Intermarché – 151
- T. Merlier 🇧🇪 Soudal-QS – 150
- M. Van der Poel 🇳🇱 Alpecin – 128
Mountain
- L. Martinez 🇫🇷 Barhrain – 27 pts
- B. Healy 🇮🇪 EF – 16
- M. Woods 🇨🇦 IPT – 11
Teams
- Visma 🇳🇱
- UAE 🇦🇪 – 16′45″
- Decathlon 🇫🇷 – 28′12″
- FDJ 🇫🇷 – 29′07″
- Arkéa 🇫🇷 – 29′41″
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.