Greig Leach

Today is realistically the last day for Nairo Quintana (Arkea-Samsic) and his team to put a dent in the time he lost in the individual time trial. So he had one of his guys on the front of the peloton sharing the work of chasing down the break and the rest of his teammates making sure he was in good shape for the final climb to come. Matis Lovel had grabbed a bottle from a team soigneur along the side of the road and then dropped back through the peloton to hand it over to Quintana. Behind the Arkea Samsic pair another teammate, Simon Guglielmi looked on ready to swap a wheel or do whatever may be necessary to keep their man in contention.