During a hardly lively start to the 18th stage, Jack Bauer turned despite himself into the leader of the race.
Wanting to get back on the peloton, the New Zealand BikeExchange rider, slightly delayed in the line of cars, hit that of the UAE Team Emirates formation (by Tadej Pogacar).
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Victim of a "sun", Bauer fell violently against the car of the Emirati formation, stopped dead on a narrow portion of the road, where a motorcycle press seemed about to also force the passage.
The reason for this impromptu stop?
The fall just ahead of another rider, Nils Eeckhoff (Team DSM), hit him by a motorcycle.
Exasperated by this fall, the New Zealander ended up leaving a few seconds later, like the Dutchman, assisted by the medical car.