Greig Leach

Sorry for the pun. Many of you who keep track of my cycling art will know that I am a sucker for a good (bad) pun. Today's final kilometer was a bit of a rise up to the line, thus the idea to use the word "up" in the title. With that feature it may for a much more difficult sprint to judge and perhaps a different kind of a sprinter who would take the win in Limoges. Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) had just enough advantage to hold off the closing Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Philipsen wasn't expected to do as well as he did. Just behind him another sprinter did better than expected, Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-Alula). One who was expected to do well was Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma). I don't know why he just isn't the same level of success from the year before. He was there today, but came away with third on the day.