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Nothing Ventured... TDF20-134
We all know the expression, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." For this quartet, it is demonstratively true. They know that the likelihood of winning the stage from a break away on the Champs Elysees are slim indeed, however the chances that Greg Van Avermaet (CCC), Pierre-Luc Perichon (Cofidis), Conor Swift (Arkea-Samsic) and Maximilian Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) would win from a bunch sprint are infinitely smaller still. And so it is that off they go into a four man break in hopes of staying away to the finale. They did not, but the tried, and in so doing earned some rather useless sprint points towards the Sprint Competition in the doing.