Greig Leach

As someone I follow on BlueSky said, "I didn't have the GC guys sprinting for the stage on my Bingo card!" Once they had a gap on the peloton, Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike), Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), Remco Evenpoel (Soudal-Quick Step) and Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) pressed on in search of stage honors. It was suppose to be a sprinter stage, but one can never count on Pogacar and Vingegaard to race as predicted. Van Der Poel was forced to open up the sprint first as the peloton came close to catching them all, but both Vingegaard and Pogacar were able to come around the best sprinter in the group. The only sprinter to get near was Jake Steward (Israel-Premier Tech) who did out sprint the peloton but still finished fifth on the stage. With Pogacar taking the stage, he will be in the Yellow Jersey tomorrow, with Vingegaard four seconds back and wearing the Green Jersey on loan from the World Champion. The top four finishers now occupy the top four places on the general classification. Three of the four were the final podium in last year's Tour de France.