Join Luke McLaughlin for updates as the race moves from Gap to Barcelonnette
Neilands and Kung have now clipped off the front. But it doesn’t look like they are really trying to mount a two-man break either.Kung, Cort, Neilands and Matthews are all up front with Van der Poel. But they haven’t managed to break away.Perhaps unsurprisingly, it looks like this big group with MvDP in it is going to get closed down. Wout van Aert, in fact, is pulling on the front of the second group to bring it back together.Attacks from the start.
Which leaves us, realistically, to think about the battle for the points classification and the daily dust-up for stage wins. Today’s 179.5km route between Gap and Barcelonnette ranks as “Hilly” on the official route map, with five category-three climbs to negotiate, along with one sprint point that comes after the first two climbs.
Plenty of intrigue to be found in all the races within the race, then, and who knows, perhaps Pogacar may yet suffer a bad day …
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