Greig Leach

I wonder if Wout Van Aerts and Sepp Kuss of Jumbo-Visma had drawn straws to see how the end of the stage would go. Both were up the road in the break away, but their main GC rider, Jonas Vingegaard was on his own in the group containing the Maillot Jaune. Already Ineos-Grenadiers had call back their two guys from the break to do some work for their GC guy. It seems that it came to Van Aerts to drop back and Kuss to be the guy to go for the stage victory. And go the American did! Kuss went over the final climb alone having dropped the veteran of the Tour, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar). At this point, it is literally all down hill to win the stage. He is a former mountain biker, so he may have the skill set and fearlessness it takes to hold off someone like Valverde. It will be a very fast final 14 kilometers today.