Happy Friday #couchpeloton !
Hope you’re all doing well.
May your FRATLs be accurate and your mug cakes be tasty.

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Alrighty, let’s get going.

Benoit Cosnefroy is already off the front, looking for more polka dot points on the first climb of the day.

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2 more points for Cosnefroy, just by the skin of his teeth.
Classy stuff from team Bora-Hansgrohe.

Sprinters are getting dropped already.

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Wind. Echelons. Gaps opening.

Bora-Hansgrohe are pushing so hard on the front of the peleton that they’re dropping their own teammates.

Sagan at the front.
Bennett in the second group.

Can Bora & Sagan keep the pace ON until the intermediate sprint?

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Plenty of national champion jerseys battling to hold onto the front group.

Bora still charging on the front.
Still a gap of about 35 seconds between Sagan in group 1 and Bennett in group 2.

Caleb Ewan and other sprinters are 2 minutes off the back now.

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Hey #CouchPeloton

Is anyone joining Rapha #Womens100 challenge tomorrow?

Where will you be riding?

More info here: https://bit.ly/320daEC 
Ok #CouchPeloton - who wants to explain the time cut rules in 280 characters or less?

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Ok, back to the race!

Trentin was the first over the line at the intermediate sprint.

Sagan was an incredibly close second and now goes into the lead in the sprint classification.

The struggle-bus-for-sprinters is 5:11 behind the leading group.

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Could I take a #FRATL of 1:03 please FRATL gods?
😯 https://twitter.com/letourdata/status/1301861728133754880
Thomas de Gendt (Lotto Soudal) blasts off the front of the lead group in search of KOM points
(and an epic solo stage win?)

Just under 85km to go for de Gendt.

Bennett group is about 4km behind him. Ewan group are another 3kms behind them.

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Another crash!

Marc Soler and Hugo Hofstetter both hit the deck. They were in the middle of the leading group.

Both riders are back on their bikes, working their way back through the convoy of cars.

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