Not the most exciting to watch, but the crashes were brutal. Hope JP is ok. The road rash all over his upper back made me wince. His jersey was torn clean off. Crash at the finish (typical first week stuff) looked pretty bad, too. Fortunately, it appeared worse than it was.
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Here’s an article from earlier today on the rather interesting choice of watch of both Pogacar and van der Poel (I noticed it during the jersey signing today).
You can be minding your own business and bam, you are on the ground and out of the race. Jasper Philipsen was just in the wrong place at the wrong instant, a real shame. But the Tadej-Jonas show rolls on.