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They’re racing in stage three: Wearing the polka-dot jersey for King of the Mountains, it’s no surprise to see Neilson Powless attack off the front of the bunch as soon as the signal to begin racing is semaphored by Christian Prudhomme. It looks like Powless will have the French rider Laurent Pichon (Arkea–Samsic) for company as the bunch seem content to let the duo go. The gap is already 35 seconds. It could be a long afternoon …
Fight! Fight! Fight! It seems there are thoroughly unfounded and possibly completely fictitious rumours of the beginning of an early race rift between reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard and his team-mate Wout van Aert following yesterday’s stage. Van Aert finished a well beaten second behind Victor Lafay and made no bones of his anger at losing, plucking his water bottle from its cage and flinging it to the ground as he crossed the line.
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