1:29 p.m .: We obviously wonder if Mark Cavendish has his 35th historic victory in his legs as of this Monday.
Suffice to say that we leave them extremely quiet at the head of the race until then.
It didn’t take long to attack, with the French rider from Arkéa Laurent Pichon and the American polka dot jersey Neilson Powless. They seem well launched to go a long way together.
Because yes, the Tour de France will be in France for good this Monday.
1:05 p.m. : There is a lot of talk about the frustration of Wout van Aert, second well venerated after the line on the second stage Thursday evening. At the microphone of Eurosport there, Christophe Laporte announces that the overpowered Belgian was “more disappointed than frustrated”. Yeah, the Jumbo-Visma must have had a lot of management work to do last night.
12:55 p.m .: Hello everyone, we attack this live five minutes from the fictitious start! Thanks to Eurosport for making us relive the vibrant success of Victor Lafay from the inside. We admit it, we didn’t expect to have a French kif so quickly. Today, it looks calmer for our little hearts, but you never know…
After two very difficult stages on the side of the Spanish Basque Country, the Tour arrives in France this Monday, at the end of a stage with a profile very different from Saturday and Sunday, with flatness despite some slight relief. It will therefore be up to the sprinters to play their card, they who have suffered a lot (for some) since the official start of the Grande Boucle in Bilbao. We will quietly go on air around 3 p.m. to follow all this.