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The inspiration of Christophe Laporte
The Frenchman has, throughout the Tour, worked for Wout Van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard.
He had carte blanche this Friday.
He took full advantage of it.
Fifth stage victory for the Jumbo-Visma (after the two won by Jonas Vingegard and the two by Wout van Aert).
With mischief, he got ahead of the action of the sprinters in the streets of Cahors to get ahead of the Belgian Jasper Philipsen and the Italian Alberto Dainese.
Quinn Simmons, the brave
The American (Trek) once again let himself be carried away by his temperament.
He took part in a long breakaway with the Danish Mikkel Honoré (Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl), the Slovenian Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) and the Dutchman Taco Van der Hoorn (Intermarché-Wanty Gobert), who left from the 6th km.
The brave Quinn Simmons, the last survivor of the breakaway, was finally caught 35 km from the finish.
Awarded the Fighting Spirit Award.
Tadej Pogacar, the facetious
The Tower is lost.
But the Slovenian is still trying his luck.
Out of a taste for the game, he attempted an acceleration quickly controlled by Wout van Aert, 30 km from the finish.
The leader of the UAE Team Emirates team will not be able to feed the slightest regret.
He will have tried everything.
Until the last moment.
And even where no one was expecting him… Surprising 5th in the stage at the finish.
It regains 5'' thanks to a small break.
Anecdotal.
But the proof of his total involvement.
Alexis Gougeard, the other French touch
The French have, as often, tried a lot.
Like Alexis Gougeard (B&B-KTM), who with Briton Fred Wright (Bahrain Victorious) and Belgian Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) escaped 30 km from the finish, counted 28 ' ' 15 km from the finish.
Another 4'' at 2 km… Before being swallowed up.
Finally 44th.
FLOPS
Peter Sagan, failed again
The Slovak made his teammates work (Pierre Latour in the lead) 20 km from the finish.
No result.
Only 34th at the finish.
Another missed opportunity for the seven-time winner of the green jersey.
The leader of the TotalEnergies team must, for the moment, settle for four places in the top 10.
Sprinters overwhelmed
They had ticked off the stage but on leaving the mountain the transition can be tricky when changing gear.
In Carcassonne (15th stage), the sprinter teams ended up tying up Benjamin Thomas.
Not in Cahors.
Like Peter Sagan, the arrows Dylan Groenewegen (7th) or Caleb Ewan (10th) could not let their burst of speed express themselves and got stuck in their quiver.
