Greig Leach

Etiquette says you don't attack the race leader when they are off the back due to a mechanical, crash or a nature break. Two things however, it doesn't applied to those not considered to be a favorite nor on the first day when there is no race leader yet. So it wasn't a dirty trick for Frederik Frison (Lotto Soudal) to attack the peloton when it had slowed so must could take a pee on the side of the road. The Belgium rider on a Belgium team quickly stretched out his gap to 30 seconds with 46 kilometers left to race.