Greig Leach

Over virtually every kilometer of the Tour de France, the fans along the side of the road yell, "Allez, allez, allez!" Today it must have been Rafal Majka (UAE Team Emirates) yelled to his team leader (and Maillot Jaune), Tadej Pogacar as he came off the wheel of his teammate. Usually, the leader will wait until his last teammate does one final pull and then swings off. Pogacar caught the other GC riders by surprise by going out from behind the wheel of his last domestique. At first the other two domestiques left, Jonathan Castroveijo (Ineos-Grenadiers) and Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) were able to match the acceleration for their respective team leaders, Richard Carapaz and Jonas Vingegaard. The five opened a bit of a gap on Enric Mas (Movistar) who was trying to defend his position on his own. There are another four kilometers to climb to the final mountain top finish of this Tour de France. So there is plenty of room to fight out the rest of the GC positions. I doubt there is enough road left to unseat Pogacar and his five and a half minute lead on those behind him in GC and on this stretch of road.