Greig Leach

Given all of the effort it took to get into what will almost certainly be the winning move of the day, it isn't that surprising that these five got dropped first by the lone attack of Ben Healy and then the counter move by both Quinn Simmons and Michael Storer. This quintet of Will Barta (Movistar), Eddy Dunbar (Jayco-Alula), Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Harold (XDS-Astana) had built up three-and-a-half minutes on the peloton containing the Maillot Jaune. Van Der Poel had started the day a minute-and-a-half behind Tadej Pogacar, after yesterday's individual time trial. At this point he still had the virtual yellow jersey by two minutes. We know why he had worked so hard to get himself into this move.