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Today is one of those stages that on paper shouldn’t have too big an effect on the General Classification – but could be a potential banana peel for Jonas Vingegaard. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:’tX-M2HbuRGFxI9Hk1utyCw’,sig:’aVIjfiwJZobv3ccWZDkvn64k2qQsxm5maEhM9Tozj4o=’,w:’594px’,h:’396px’,items:’1408907852′,caption: true ,tld:’com’,is360: false })}); The Stage is 192km long but there’s almost not a flat kilometre from start to finish. It has the feel of a Belgian Classic and as such should draw out the Classics riders. Luckily for Jonas Vingegaard…

The real mountains have finally arrived. It is time for the general classification battle to really kick off and what a battle it is going to be over the next two days. Tadej has lost one of his leading generals in the mountains, George Bennett who tested positive for Covid during the rest day, Rafael Majka isn’t 100% and the rest of his entourage isn’t that well equipped to protect him on the two merciless…

It is almost inconceivable that we still have two weeks of racing left after such an epic first week in this year’s tour. Traditionally it is the third week of the tour where we see massive time losses occur, however with the nasty second week the organisers have on the menu I think we will definitely have some clear winners and losers by this time next week.Today is the appetiser to the week ahead, a…

How does one top yesterday’s stage? I don’t think you can. Today we expect a GC truce after the immense battle we saw play out on La Super Planche Des Belles Filles yesterday. If this is the case we will see another frenetic start to the race with all teams hoping for that elusive stage win pushing hard to snap the elastic back to the peloton.  The stage is classified as hilly with two Cat…

La Super Planche Des Belles Filles Words that most likely trigger severe PTSD for Primoz Roglic and the rest of the Jumbo Visma team as they saw their tour hopes unexpectedly shattered by the current Yellow Jersey, Tadej Pogacar in the 2020 tour’s final time trial.  Today however it comes at the end of a the stage and is preceded by two Cat 3 climbs and it’s not the standard Planche Des Belle Filles, it’s…