2:00 p.m .: Hello everyone ! While waiting to take the air, we share with you our little candy of the day ” The anticipated summary of the stage
A little cooled by the falls of the day before, the peloton begins this second stage very gently. This does not prevent Christopher Froome from dismounting before Lannion, much to the despair of his new team who thought they had recruited a former Tour winner instead of his cheeky and clumsy cousin. Two regional of the stage are packed in Paimpol (Elie Gesbert and Julien Simon), accompanied by a guy from the DSM whose name everyone will immediately forget. It falls hard from the Côte de Pordic, where a spectator is tackled by a gendarme just before the passage of the peloton because of a sign mixing Islamo-leftism, regional elections, and doping. Information taken, it is less the message than the disproportionate length of the said sign that posed the problem.
In short, the peloton led by the Quick Step kept the gap under five minutes before putting the turbo just before the local Alpe d’Huez. Another fall at the exit of Ploeuc-sur-Lié is fatal to Carapaz, second Ineos leader to fall in the field of honor, as well as to the car carrying Chris Froome, but that’s a detail. The following ? The blue jerseys that screw up, Julian who comes out, Roglic who tries but who does not succeed, and already 30 seconds in general for the Frenchman after two days of racing. What if he remakes us in 2019?