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Making a Well-Timed Attack TdF25-114
It usually is a bad sign if you have to explain a joke, but that is the case with this title. (unless you get it). Tissot is a watch company that is also responsible for all of the race timing at the Tour de France and many other sporting events. Once the peloton had gotten close to the break, Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) jumped free of the peloton in a quest to join up with the four-man break up the road. Wout got withing twenty seconds, but not further. After about five kilometers off the front he was reeled back in by the group chasing behind. I think the sprinter's teams were confident that they could catch the break that had been out in the front all day, but a strong man like Van Aert with fresh legs may well be a very different matter.