Greig Leach

The Tour started today in Italy (for the first time in the Tour's history) under sweltering heat in Florence. It took a while, but the break away finally formed after about forty kilometers of racing. TotalEnergies managed to get to of their guys into the break. Matteo Vercher dropped back to the team car to get an ice bag for himself and then passed one to his teammate Sandy Dujardin. They were joined by six others including Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious) and Frank Van Der Broek (DSM-Firmenich-PostNL). They managed to build a lead of almost six minutes before the peloton started to get nervous about some of the members of those in the break.