Jonas Abrahamsen, who lost the green jersey (points) yesterday but still holds the polka dot jersey (king of the mountains), attacks with around 600m to the summit to take the one KOM point but Axel Zingle (Cofidis) joins him. Zingle though does not contest it and allows Abrahamsen to take the solitary point. We have hit the foot of the Col du Bois Clair, which is 1.
6km in length at an average gradient of 6%. We have just one categorised climb today, which is the Col du Bois Clair, a category four climb that is coming up in around 5km. No attacks yet.
It has already started to rain. We have just seen Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) towards the back of the peloton, heavily bandaged up after his crash in the final 500metres of yesterday’s stage. On the face of it, this stage looks fairly simple.
However, with rain around and strong crosswinds predicted, chaos could ensue! We have just seen a huge image of French footballer Antoine Griezmann mown into the grass. Griezmann is from Mâcon where we have started today. Off we go on stage six at the 2024 Tour de France! The calibre of rider in this picture is not bad, is it? The peloton has begun the neutralised roll-out from Mâcon.
Even though we have a pretty flat stage ahead, there is expected to be crosswinds therefore we could have splits in the peloton. For many years the Australian was a teammate and leadout man for Cavendish and now he is his Sport Director at Astana Qazaqstan. Safe to say he was happy for his good friend! If .
