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Leading for Now. PR24-11
After a flurry of attacks on the previous pave sectors, this threesome got away. It was started by Gianni Vermeersch (Alpecin-Deceuninck) who was quickly joined by Nils Politt (UAE Team Emirates) and Stefan Kung (Groupama-FDJ). Politt had been having a tough go, but once he had the near miss (see my early post) he was on fire. With 73 kilometers to go, the trio has built up a twenty two second lead on the group of favorites behind. All three have at least one teammate in the group behind, so it will be left to others to chase them down.