Greig Leach

From the previous post, you know that Pavel Sivakov (UAE Team Emirates) had been riding tempo on the front of the group with his teammate and yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar. Just moments earlier, he was riding hard, head down, clearly burying himself in a last ditched effort to drop whomever he could. He was also chasing down Jonas Vingegaard's (Visma-Lease a Bike) teammates, Sepp Kuss. So, all together, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quick Step) swung out of the line of riders, Florian Lipowitz (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) let a gap open up, Sivakov swung off the front spent from his effort and he had just about caught Kuss. As all of those things happened, the move came from Tadej. This time he stood up and stomped on the pedals. Jonas Vingegaard knew it was coming and was right on his pedals in an effort to stay with the Maillot Jaune. He couldn't. Nor could anyone hold Vingegaard's wheel either.