the leaders of the Tour de France are waiting, …

6th step
The Col de la Lusette, unprecedented in the Tour de France, should have allowed, on paper, the favorites to test themselves and, perhaps, to do some damage. On the ground, it was not.

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When the favorites don’t want to, there’s no point in pushing. In this case, they were not inclined to take advantage of the land. Neither the arrival at altitude, admittedly too gentle, nor the Col de la Lusette, an unprecedented ascent, nor its frightening laces, on paper, have therefore found favor in their eyes. None of them pointed the handlebars at the head of the group, none of them dared to accelerate a little and none of them …

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