Two nothing stages for us, and I assume it'll stay like this for a while. So good that Aular is at least still on s.t. then of course. Would be fun to see Marin able to sprint fully again in one of the next sprint stages. Yesterday he had a great position but did a little drop back a la Vuelta Halvorsen, today was probably a bit too hard for him.
Nice to see the favourite deliver, congratulations alexkr! Thanks for the great reports, Ulrich
Happy to see us in every break so far. We are doing well enough in the KOM standings which is also great to see as quite frankly we won't be doing much else this Tour!
Good to see Grosu grab a win early on, as the sprints seem to be more random unfortunately.
John St Ledger in Team Bunzl-Centrica and Team U25
Not a stage that suited us, though other sprinters surviving makes it harder. Not thrilled to see Gregaard and Skjelmose losing time there, though a couple of minutes ultimately won't matter much in the GC range they'll (hopefully) end up.
RIP Exxon Duke, David Veilleux, Double Feature, and Monster Energy
Great to see us take matters in our own hands on one of the stages where I really was hoping for Groves to deliver. He launched too early again, as he could easily have grabbed a podium here, but I like the way we were riding here. And: We've already scored more stage points than during the entire Vuelta (where we didn't get a single Top 5) ^^ Hoping for more of this kind of riding on the next two days - in particular on stage 6, which I just realized actually ends on home soil for us
Bissegger moving up to 3rd in GC is a nice bonus. No really big points for us so far, but consistency and spirit are looking far better than in Spain, so I'll happily take that.
Congrats to Rabobank, Grosu delivering on a Grosu stage Hopefully these will be Groves stages some day, though
Thanks for the report.
