Tour de France Tour de France 2024, Stage 3: Plaisance (Piacenza) > Turin (Torino), 230.8 km

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Perhaps Angel Heart is just a popular movie in the peloton...

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Surely the tour director must be on the phone to the invited teams.
To get invited, you would think they would promise to be in the break on days like this.

There are two invited teams Uno X and Total Direct Energies. They have been active in the first two stages. Uno X have the points and KOM jersey and finished 2nd in a stage while TDE have been in the breaks. There are no incentives for them to get in the break in today's stage.
 
So will Pog and UAE let Carapaz take yellow today?

Presume Pog will be in yellow anyhow after stage 4. Doubt UAE will let the break go all the way when there are easy bonus seconds to take for Pog, both on Galibier and at the finish.
 
So will Pog and UAE let Carapaz take yellow today?

Presume Pog will be in yellow anyhow after stage 4. Doubt UAE will let the break go all the way when there are easy bonus seconds to take for Pog, both on Galibier and at the finish.

I don't think he cares, and I don't think Vingegaard cares either - irrespecitive of yellow, their teams will ride the exact same way tomorrow.

Soudal and EF may want the jersey, because it may be the only time this Tour they have it, and neither captain has had it before.

But EF are the only ones I can see investing in getting it, by doing some dumb *** like letting Carapaz take part in tbe bunch sprint.
 
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