Greig Leach

Both Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dstny) and Matteo Vercher (TotalEnergies) were finally able to bridge up to Michal Kwiatkowski (Ineos-Kwiatkowski). Kwiato was hoping he could break the stage win dry spell in this Tour for his team. The legacy of Ineos-Grenadiers is vast and very successful with about a decade of Tour Yellow Jersey with three different men. Here we are almost to the end of stage 18 and they have yet to win a stage. Arguably the strongest of the three, it seems this will be the chance to break the drought. With a mere twenty-five kilometers to race, the trio had twenty seconds on the five-man chasing group, another minute and twenty seconds to the main chasers, and a whopping thirteen minutes back to the peloton containing all of the leaders' jerseys.