Once again, a transitional stage will have been rich in sensations on this Tour, and particularly disputed. A massive fall at the start of the stage saw the peloton in two and rejected the second and third in the general classification, Jonas Vingegaard and Florian Lipowitz, at the back and caused a long moment of floating, while the candidates for the breakaway fought a merciless battle.
Barguil exploded
Finally, a group left, notably with the French Warren Barguil, Axel Laurance, Valentin Madouas, Julian Alaphilippe and Jordan Jegat, who will have offered a very beautiful close in the general classification, he who remains at 11e place, but is now only in 1’06 ” from the 10e The Ben Healy.
But for the stage, once again, the tricolor runners fell on far too strong men. When Tim Wellens chose to leave alone, 40 kilometers from the finish, Barguil tried to hang his wheel. But he exploded and had to be changed. The Belgian spun towards victory by digging an impressive gap on another Belgian, Victor Campenaerts (Visma-Lease A Bike), with whom he had heard more or less so as not to be caused by mutually wrong, despite their membership in two rival teams.
