Greig Leach

Having unknowingly gone of course, Jordi Meeus (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) was less than pleased to discover that he had not one the stage. In the roughly 80% of the peloton who had missed read the turn inside of the final kilometer, it was Meeus who outsprinted all of the other misguided sprinters. I was wondering why the lone policeman pointed one way as the front of the peloton went the other way. It became clear as most of the peloton was racing behind the crowds and the barriers, as just a handful of the riders went down the true finishing straight. Kudos for Meeus for keeping a civil tongue in his moutn (at least as far as I know), but he did seem to question the one race official he saw. I am assuming it was along the lines of "What the f**k?" I sure would have.