Greig Leach

Every single man who starts the Tour wants to get all of the way to Paris, and will suffer to get there. Today both Jack Bauer (BikeExchange_Jayco) and Nils Eekhoff (DSM) went down separately but simultaneously in an encounter with team cars, press motorcycles, and traffic furniture. Bauer could be heard asking the motorcycle driver if this was his first Tour. Clearly he wasn't happy having gone head over heals into the back of a team car while he was trying to rejoin the peloton. Eekhoff seemed to be a bit worse off. After he got going again he dropped back to the doctors car to get patch up. He was able to finish the stage, so his chances of staying in the Tour all of the way to Paris have gone up drastically.