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Stage 7, longest Tour stage in 21 years.

Did Jumbo decide to abandon Roglic, or is his whole team suffering? I don’t remember seeing yellow/black jerseys in the reduced peloton or the groups ahead, except Van Aert. Edit: I was wrong, Kruijswijk and Vingegaard finished in the Pogacar group.

For that matter, Pogacar didn’t seem to have many UAE helpers with him either. Lucky that Movistar chased down Carapaz for him. Edit: wrong again, UAE had one other rider in the Pogacar group.

Ineos and Movistar seem to have the strongest teams left. Ineos is probably riding for Carapaz, whose attack might have cemented his leader status over Thomas even if he didn’t take any time from Pogacar. Movistar is riding for . . . who? Mas?

I’m thinking Ineos needs to figure out how to use its team strength to attack Pocagar instead of just pulling him up the climbs. This isn’t Team Sky days, they don’t have a leader who can decisively drop the other GC guys on mountaintop finishes, there are few mountaintop finishes in this Tour, and Carapaz will lose time on the second TT.

Gotta think some guys will pull out early to rest and prepare for the Olympics. Roglic should do that, instead of hopelessly dragging his injuries around France five or more minutes off GC.