After brutal days on the motorcycle, such as visiting the Tour de France on the cobblestones of stage 5 of Roubaix, the transition level of stage 7 through the Jura Mountains to Lausanne in Switzerland hardly seemed like a candidate for the most weary day of the race so far. .
But that’s what it became when 4 other drivers left the race on Saturday, bringing the total number of riders remaining in the race to 168. In the morning, UAE Team Emirates and AG2R Citroën announced that their drivers Vegard Stake Laengen and Geoffrey Bouchard had left due to positive COVID-19 tests.
They then joined the Tour’s DNF roster through rookie Kevin Vermaerke (Team DSM) and Gianni Moscon (Astana Qazaqstan).
The American climber was hit by a pile of mass inside the first 10 kilometers of the 186 km stage, a twist of fate that divided the peloton and saw the yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar also lightly hit the bridge.
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Daniel Ostanek is editor-in-chief of Cyclingnews, joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor and was later hired as editor. Prior to Cyclingnews, it was published in many publications in the cycling world, adding Procycling, CyclingWeekly, CyclingTips, Cyclist and Rouleur, among others. In addition to reporting and writing news and reports, Daniel manages the content of “How to watch” the season.
Daniel reported on the races in the world, added the Tour de France, and interviewed several of the sport’s biggest stars, such as Egan Bernal, Wout van Aert, Remco Evenepoel, Mark Cavendish and Anna van der Breggen. Daniel drives a 2002 C40 Colnago Landbouwkrediet and his favourite races are the Strade Bianche and the Vuelta a España.
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