Breakage in the peloton. Tuesday, the fourth stage of the Tour de France has long been soporific. Before an electric final as possible and the victory, in the sprint, of the Belgian Jasper Philipsen. A final marked by several falls, with several sprint cadors sent to the mat, starting with Fabio Jakobsen, miraculous after a nightmarish fall on the Tour of Poland in 2020. Already unhappy the day before, to the point of qualifying as “stupid” and “ dangerous” Philipsen’s behavior in Bayonne, the Dutchman suffered burns to his shoulder and back, according to the boss of his Soudal-Quick Step team Patrick Lefevere.
But he is expected to start on Wednesday, unlike veteran Spanish Luis Leon Sanchez, Marc Cavendish’s teammate at Astana, and Jacopo Guarnieri, pilot fish for Caleb Ewan at Lotto, who both suffer a broken collarbone and have announced their abandonment in the evening. Many riders strongly criticized the dangerousness of the circuit, like the leader of Alpecin, Mathieu van der Poel, who… was downgraded to last place in his group for an elbow.