Greig Leach

I guess I was wrong about what Nils Politt (Bora-Hasgrohe) was looking at in the previous post. He must have been trying to gauge just how much his three break away companions had left to give. Apparently what he saw led him to believe he could take off on his own. And he felt sure he could hold them off all of the way to the line. With just nine kilometers left to the line in Nimes, he had twelve seconds on the other three, over a minute to the other members of the early break, and a full fifteen minutes to the peloton that contained the Maillot Jaune. Politt has yet to win a stage in the Tour in his career. If I remember what Phil Liggett and Bob Roll had to say correctly, he hasn't won a race in his professional career (plenty of seconds and podium finishes but no wins). The team lost there marquee sprinter due to injury, Peter Sagan, at the start of the stage, so there may be some extra motivation to win one for the team as it were.