Greig Leach

With a lone attack up the road, and the peloton just riding tempo, Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb) felt he had enough time to drop back and have a chat with his team director. While he would be able to use the convoy of team cars to get back onto the tail of the peloton, he had his teammate Chad Haga to help with the effort. Dumoulin knows that he has moved into second place overall. Perhaps they were discussing if today was the day to put some time into the race leader, Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott). Scott had already added three seconds to his lead over Dumoulin in the intermediate sprint, but might be able to be pulled back on the next climb.