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It's still pretty competitive at the top.
Bjorn is opening up a bit of a lead. Seems to be going very well, looked good in the photo he posted on Facebook. He has stretched out his lead a little today so is riding faster than the chasers. He could get to the next control tonight.
Skinny and Geoffroy Dussault are very close to each other in second - good day for them too.
Matthias Dalgas in 5th has moved up. Don't know much about him.
A couple of yesterday's leaders have dropped away:
Jonas Goy is down to 10th and Ian To, who was one of my tips to make the top 10, is now back in 26th. My other two tips for top 10 (alongside Bjorn and Skinny) have also slipped back: Rimas back in 32nd and Matthijs Ligt down to 91st - he must have had time off with something going wrong to have fallen back from top 20 yesterday.
Good day for Hippy, plodding away despite moans about stomach problems, up to 22nd. Also a good day for another rider I am following, Ian Walker, who is up to 15th. He is the guy from Bath university who did the work showing that cyclists with blonde wigs got given more space, and (more recently) that there was nothing that a cyclist could wear to prevent close passes.
Tomorrow will be interesting: the third day is often when reality bites in these events, things start to hurt, people need to switch to sustainable levels of sleep and some people find they are just not enjoying it and lose focus.