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Somehow Bardet came in only 34 seconds behind the leaders. Proper hard day out for him, bet he's glad it's rest day tomorrow.
Colonel_of_Truth-
Somehow Bardet came in only 34 seconds behind the leaders.
Well, there may be a kernel of truth in that, but ...
[...] White, like Tom Dumoulin after last Thursday’s stage to Mûr de Bretagne, also accused race officials of turning a blind eye to some blatant drafting by rival teams.
“TV motorbikes were in the way today, and they’ve been in the way a lot this week,” he said. “When they tow multiple guys back on to the peloton – the group of Bardet and Mikel Landa came back through the cars inside the last three kilometres, that shouldn’t happen. You judge if it’s been the same for everyone.”
I don't know if that was the case for Greipel, too.
Oliver Schick
It turns out that Greipel was actually in the crash that did for Richie Porte and he still came down only 27 seconds down and was eighth.