Greig Leach

The American, Nielson Powless (EF Pro Cycling) is a demon descender. He let the rest of the large break away down the other side of the mountain in what has come to be known as the super tuck. It is when a rider comes off the saddle, sits on the main tube and gets as low over the handle bars as possible. It is not very stable or safe, but it is aero-dynamic. Behind the stone falling down the mountain are Pavel Sivakov (Ineos-Grenadiers) who had finally recovered from his double falls in stage one, along with Daniel Felipe Martinez (EF Pro Cycling), Warren Barguil (Arkea-Samsic) and Marc Soler (Movistar) amongst others. EF was in a great tactical position having put three men into the seventeen man break, it is their stage to lose. Only Bora-Hansgrohe had managed to get more than one guy into this front group.