There is no rest day to go across France from the Alps to Catalonia. This block of stages will see the first real mountain climbs, starting with with 2 half-Andorran stages. But the block actually opens on Wednesday with a flat Team Time Trial.

Standings after stage 4

General

  1. D. Gaudu 🇫🇷 FDJ
  2. J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – s.t.
  3. G. Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 8″
  4. E. Bernal 🇨🇴 Ineos – 14″
  5. T. Pidcock and 19 other riders – 16″

Points

  1. M. Pedersen 🇩🇰 Lidl-trek – 78 pts
  2. E. Vernon 🇬🇧 IPT – 76 pts
  3. J. Philipsen 🇧🇪 Alpecin – 75 pts
  4. G. Ciccone 🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek – 67 pts
  5. J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 65 pts
  6. D. Gaudu 🇫🇷 FDJ – 62 pts

Mountain

  1. J. Nicolau 🇪🇸 Caja Rural – 11 pts
  2. S. Quinn 🇺🇸 EF – 9 pts
  3. A. Verre 🇮🇹 Arkéa – 8 pts
  4. L. Vervaeke 🇧🇪 Soudal-QS – 8 pts
  5. J. Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma – 5 pts

Teams

  1. Visma 🇳🇱
  2. UAE, Astana and Soudal – 2″

(Except for Visma, I wouldn’t have given those team names if I had been asked; it’s a bit of a surprise.)

  • Deschanel2017OPM
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    1 个月前

    Mmmyeah… well, it’s hard to believe he hadn’t viewed any profile; profile indicating that the only hard hard slopes were in the first kilometres of the climb, therefore it was the only place to make a difference in solo.

    Would he have been caught later on, it shouldn’t have been a great problem as he would only have had to stay in the wheels of a group until the finish line. So I don’t even consider it a risky move, as situations were likely to mellow out after the first part.

    It was the one place to attack, and the risk of backslash was very limited. The only concern was to do all that and gain little out of it, which is more or less what happened. Well, “little” over Almeida (and Pidcock) but still a significant gain over Ciccone and others.