Most of the marquee sprinters had managed to get into the large breakaway. For the first time this Tour they were all able to sprint for maximum points at the intermediate sprint. Again, it was Biniam Girmay (NSN Cycling) getting the better of both Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Premier Tech) and Mads Petersen (Lidl-Trek) at the line in Quillan. Pedersen's third place moves him much closer to his target of wearing the Maillot Vert of the Green Jersey. It is worth noting that all three of these guys have won the jersey in previous Tours. Now that they have gotten what they hoped for out of the intermediate sprint, will they sit up and go back to the trailing peloton? Only Pedersen pressed on in the breakaway, the other two went back in hopes of saving their energy for the sprint stage tomorrow.
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