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Chasing Along the Valley Road TdF26-123
The peloton started the day in the Vouge mountains but left them behind about halfway through the stage. The early climbs blew the peloton apart before they reached the valley roads. This trio of Mauro Schmid (Jayco-Alula), Aaron Gate (XDS-Astana) and Huub Artz (Lotto-Intermarche) were stuck between the lead group hoping to close forty-nine seconds with the peloton three-and-a-half minutes further back. Despite a constant changing series of attacks and make-up of the peloton it seems that the highly placed on the general classification are happy (finally) with who is off the front. They did eventually catch those up the road.