The Tour de France observes a day of rest, this Monday in Morzine.
A welcome break for the peloton which went through the first 9 stages (out of 21) belly to earth and has already experienced significant episodes since the Danish triptych.
A look back at the highlights of the first ten days of racing.
1498.3 (of 3346.5) kilometers have been covered on a Tour which, pending the results of the Covid tests, is holding its breath.
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TOPS
Tadej Pogacar, faster, higher, stronger.
Tadej Pogacar had never taken the yellow jersey so early.
And, after the first pitfalls avoided with lightness, it will be hard to dislodge.
After having mastered the rain in the streets of Copenhagen, the cobblestones (13'' ahead of the main favorites at the end of a day led to a hellish pace), like curbs, were played.
He came out of the events (wind, dust) more dominating than ever, after marking bodies (on the cobblestones) and minds with two striking victories (at Longwy and at the Super Planche des Belles Filles).
He took advantage of all the strategic places to show the Jumbo-Visma and Ineos teams that he was, at 23, the boss of this peloton.
The Slovenian holds the reins firmly (39'' ahead of Vingegaard, 1'17'' over Geraint Thomas and 1'25'
Van Aert, the springboard to Cap Blanc-Nez.
Jumbo-Visma runs multiple lips at once.
The yellow jersey with Jonas Vingegaard and Primoz Roglic, the green jersey and stage wins with Wout van Aert.
The Belgian could have feared being a spare wheel.
He was all good.
His masterpiece, his attack on the coast of Cap Blanc-Nez, propelled by his team and the victory, after 11 km alone in Calais.
He has two stage victories and a considerable lead in the points jersey classification.
Only downside, his desperate attempt alone in the stage of the Planche des Belles Filles when dazzled by the yellow jersey, he insisted instead of getting up.
A stroke of panache transformed into a stroke of madness.
Jakobsen-Groenewegen, 24 hours of emotions.
They are linked by a dramatic fall.
In August 2020, during the 1st stage of the Tour of Poland, the Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen had thrown his compatriot Fabio jakobsen against the railings.
The Quick-Step team rider had been relieved with multiple injuries before being plunged into a coma.
After months of doubts and pain, he returned to competition and won his first bouquet on the Tour (in Nyborg; 2nd stage).
The next day, Dylan Groenewegen, overwhelmed with emotion, won the sprint at Sonderborg (3rd stage).
After the dramatic episode, he had received death threats, served nine months of suspension, before trying to revive.
The miraculous and the banished have, 24 hours apart, shared the laurels.
Gaudu-Bardet, the Blues in the nails.
David Gaudu had taken on the role of leader in Copenhagen.
Well surrounded by the Groupama-FDJ team which let Thibaut Pinot (4th in Châtel) express himself, the Breton (3rd in the 6th stage in Longwy) is in the nails.
5th at 1'38'' from Tadej Pogacar.
Behind him is Romain Bardet (DSM), who left with the idea of letting himself be carried away by events with a view to aiming for a stage victory but who, through his knowledge of racing and his experience, was able to climb at the gates of the top 5 (6th at 1'39'').
FLOPS
Mathieu Van der Poel, a Tour in hell.
His Tour is a Way of the Cross.
Last year, before heading to the Tokyo Olympics to participate in the mountain bike event, the Dutchman had ignited the Tour (a stage victory and six days in yellow).
This year, nothing starts.
Model teammate of Jasper Philipsen, the sprinter of the Alpecin-Deceuninck team, in the first part of the Tour, the grandson of Raymond Poulidor was not able to play his personal card when he had the opportunity, on the cobblestones.
His Tour is, day after day, a physical and mental suffering.
He wanders in 101st place (56'06'' from the yellow jersey).
Christopher Froome, far from it.
The quadruple winner of the Tour de France (2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017) crosses the Tour without being able to play a role in it.
As soon as the difficulties point the tip of the nose, it crashes.
Swallowed by the road.
112th in the 1st stage, during the time trial in the streets of Copenhagen, he was only able to appear in the Top 50 stages twice.
Anonymous, he points to 37th place in the general classification, 28'29'' from the yellow jersey, Tadej Pogacar.
Froome, since a dramatic fall during the recognition of the time trial of the Critérium du Dauphiné 2019, undertook a titanic work to get back on a bike, resume a start, find the Tour last year (133rd on the Champs -Elysees).
Far, very far from its past performance.
Ben O'Connor, the brutal end of the Australian dream.
Unhappy on the cobblestones (during the 2nd stage) and victim of a fall (during the 8th stage), the Australian (4th in the 2021 tour) and his team quickly understood that he would not be able to defend his ambition in the general classification.
Hit in a hip (86th at 49'58''), O'Connor hangs on.
Vincent Lavenu's team was able to console themselves with the splendid coup de force of Luxembourger Bob Jungels.
Escaped for 62 km alone during the 9th stage, he swallowed the last difficulties without weakening to resist Thibaut Pinot and pick his first bouquet on the Tour de France in Châtel.
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