Tour, Stage 6: On His Own

Alexey Lutsenko (Astana) came to the summit of the Col de la Luscette all alone.  He had dropped each of his break away companions with a relentless pace, a pace he used to catch and then drop the much younger Nielson Powless (EF Pro Cycling).  While he clearly had the legs to keep going, it had to be a bit frustrating that the road kept going up from here.  It was still another 12.5 kilometers to the finish of the stage on Mont Argoual.  He could take some comfort that there was only one man within a half minute of him, and the peloton of favorites was over three minutes back.

It look like he was going to take the stage, but he was too far down the general classification to have any hopes of pulling on the Maillot Jaune at the end of the stage.

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Tour, Stage 6: It Is What They Do

Team Ineos-Grenadiers has been conspicuous in its absence thus far in this Tour de France.  Finally, today on the last climb, they put all of the team that could on the front of the peloton on the way up the Col de la Luscetter.  Jonathan Castroviejo and Richard Carapaz were the last two driving the pace for their team leader, Egan Bernal.  Bernal is the defending champion of the Tour but it isn't feeling like his team is as strong as it has been over the last decade.  Behind Ineos-Grenadiers, Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) look quite comfortable in his oddly claimed Maillot Jaune.  He clearly has the legs to merit the leader's jersey, but he didn't take it over by out riding the erstwhile leader.

Yesterday, Julian Alaphilippe was penalized 20 seconds for taking a bottle from a soigneur inside the final 20 kilometers.  The rules are clear about when and where riders can take bottles and food, but it seems to me that the soigneur was the one at fault, Alaphilippe just took the bottle when it was offered.  To other riders on other teams were equally penalized, but it was losing the lead that made the news for Deceuninck-Quick Step.  He has been gracious (and grabbed back a couple of seconds at the finish today).

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Tour, Stage 6: Starting His Attack

The youngest and the only first time Tour rider in the break was Nielson Powless (EF Pro Cycling).  It may have been his youthful vigor, or the fact that today is his birthday, but he definitely had the legs to go on the attack from the break on the final climb of the day.  As they hit the steeper section of the Col de la Luscette, it was only Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) who had the legs to go with the American's attack.  Was Powless about to give himself a Tour de France stage victory as a birthday present?

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