Greig Leach

Lidl-Trek hit the front as soon as Prudhome waved the flag at kilometer zero. They were off with one sole purpose today and that was to get the maximum sprint points for their man Jonathan Milan. With this intermediate sprint he should now have enough points to carry the Maillot Vert all of the way to Paris. Should Tadej Pogacar not win the stage that should make it mathematically impossible for the yellow jersey to win the green one too. So yet again, Milan out sprinted everyone within his group at the intermediate sprint out gunning Biniam Girmay (Intermarche-Wanty) and Anthony Turgis (TotalEnergies). His team has been so strong that the USA Champion Quinn Simmons who is on his team took fourth in the sprint. Even he had the legs to outsprint Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno X-Mobility). Although, I discovered moments later that Abrahamsen was preparing for the post sprint counter move to start the breakaway.