Greig Leach

The rains returned to the Tour as they raced the final kilometers of the day. With the peloton closing in, Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno X-Mobility) decided it was time to escape from his breakaway companions. He did it on a flat straight road just by having the power to ride the other off of his wheel. Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) didn't have the legs to even try, so Vincenzo Albanese (EF Education-EasyPost) had to swing around him and lost the chance to grab the wheel of the Norwegian. It wasn't long after that the peloton pulled the other three back into their grasp. As strong has Abrahamsen is, he, too, was chased down by the time he got to four and a half kilometers left to race. Abrahamsen had won his first stage of the Tour in a similar move and was hoping that lighting would strike twice, all though certainly not literally.