Join John Brewin for updates as Mark Cavendish and the sprinters eye up their first chance of a win in this year’s race
Grellier is up to 45 seconds clear. This is his first Tour since 2020 when he wore the polka dot jersey after the first day. The word is it’s going to be windy at the finish in Turin.An attack? Fabien Grellier, a Frenchman has used a descent to have a dig. He’s opened a gap of 30 seconds, and that might put some speed into the peloton, with six or seven clicks to the next climb.74.5km to go:
Paul Griffin gets in touch: “So good to be reminded of Will Fotheringham’s magisterial Fausto book . The poverty of his childhood, the racing years, but most of all the chapters about his trial for adultery with the woman in white are a wonderful read. . It’s easily one of the great books about bike racing, on the second tier of the podium behind Tim Krabbe’s The Racer. His best line: “I see non-racers by the side of the road. The emptiness of their lives shocks me.” Camus meets Cavendish.
Gary Naylor gets in touch: “One of many delights of Grand Tours is the explicit manifestation of cooperative behavioural norms. As in life, riders come together to act in their best collective interest, providing a background against which team and individual competition takes place. Those norms are not written down, nobody is in charge of their enforcement but they are accepted.
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