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The race restarts on the National Day, and it will be as hot as the first week which cooked many riders who will spend Monday in an ice pool. The temperature will not decrease until Thursday perhaps, or Friday more surely, when it will not even be cool but just 'more normally' hot.

Weeks are shorter now, 6 days only. This one starts with a medium mountain stage, then presents 2 easy days, before getting harder over 3 mountain days, with a finish on top on the two week-end stages.

Standings after week 1

General Classification:

While the Slovenian detached a bit already, there are still many contenders (8) for the podium, and they all are expected favourites.

1. Tadej Pogatchar 🇸🇮 UAE
2. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma: +2′42″
3. Isaac Del Toro 🇲🇽 UAE +3′27″
4. Remco Evenepoel 🇧🇪 Bora: +3′30″
5. Juan Ayuso 🇪🇸 Lidl-Trek: +3′34″
6. Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 Decathlon: +3′55″
7. Florian Lipowitz 🇩🇪 Bora: +4′00″
8. Lenny Martinez 🇫🇷 Bahrain: +4′21″
9. Mattias Skjelmose 🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek: +4′57″
10. Egan Bernal 🇨🇴 ineos : +9′12″

Points classification (Green jersey):

1. Mads Pedersen 🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek: 268 pts
2. Biniam Girmay 🇪🇷 NSN: 223
3. Tim Merlier 🇧🇪 Soudal-QS: 213
4. jasper Philipsen 🇧🇪 Alpecin: 191
5. Max Kanter 🇩🇪 Astana: 172
6. Olav Kooij 🇳🇱 Decathlon 110

Mountain (Polka Dots jersey)

Few points were scored so far.

1. Tadej Pogatchar 🇸🇮 UAE: 28 pts
2. Jonas Vingegaard 🇩🇰 Visma: 19
3. Lenny Martinez 🇫🇷 Bahrain: 16
4. Alex Baudin 🇫🇷 EF: 13
5. Valentin Paret-Peintre 🇫🇷 Soudal-QS & Paul Seixas 🇫🇷 Decathlon: 12

Stages

Stage 10, Tuesday 14

167 km, D+ 3800 m

The stage in the Massif Central looks a bit like the previous (Ussel) stage, but the climbs are significantly more substantial and there is even less flat for recovery, so a breakaway of climbers more than punchers can be expected (if UAE doesn't decide to win it from the peloton).

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Stage 11, Wednesday 15

161 km, D+ 1100 m

This is a sprinters stage.

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Stage 12, Thursday 16

179 km, D+ 1400 m

This one is a bit more hilly than the previous one, but those hills look far from enough to prevent another sprinters stage.

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