What started as a more or less quiet day, with An established escape of four runners And the squad controlling it perfectly, became a tense and nervous day due to the rain that accompanied cyclists in the last part of the stage.
And, in a chaotic ending where the great favorites of the platoon could thank not to go to the ground, The Italian Jonathan Milan took out his second stage victory In this tour. With it, in addition, it opens a hole in the face of the classification of the green jersey of regularity.
Milan, who was not well placed in the last two kilometers, fought a very hard fall in the banner of the last kilometer – a ‘sharpener’ between runners who, for example, left Girmay very touched – and ended up overcoming Jordi Meeuswhile the men of the general left a few meters away by caution.
Tomorrow the Alps arrive with the stage of greatest accumulated slope of this tour: 5,450 meters with the increases to the Glandon, the Madeleine and, finally, the Col de la Lze for the Courchevel slope. Penultimate opportunity for Vingegaard if you want to approach Pogacar.