Who needs the Alps and the Pyrenees? The Tour’s reached the first rest day in the city of Toulouse and the time gaps are wide. It’s been a lively, long week.
Christian Prudhomme called these opening stages a trompe l’œil, an “optical illusion” as to glance at them was to imagine them as flat days for sprinters but several have proved to be GC days. Is the general classification with Tadej Pogačar over a minute clear of Jonas Vingegaard an illusion or a settled fact? We’ll get answers in the coming days.
