He got a puncture 10 km from the line. He and a teammate dropped from the peloton waiting for their car. Except that the cars weren't behind the peloton. So they switched bikes, but as they didn't do it by stopping right behind the bunch, but dawdled for a long while, they were far behind the peloton when they finally stopped and switched... And then he stopped again to get his second bike from the car... So he never came back...

Next stop for him is Strade Bianche on Saturday. That should mean even more punctures, with his luck 😃

I didn't follow very accurately the race. I know that Hagenes (🇳🇴 Visma) stayed ahead of the peloton for around 30 km, never getting much gap, but still he wasn't caught up the last km. Cofidis accelerated on the last (?) cobbled section, they didn't quite break away but there was a split somewhere behind; unfortunately they stopped when they saw there were other riders in their backwheel, and so did those other riders, so that group was very soon caught up by the rest of the peloton; it could have been something, but no, a mass sprint finish was written.