Wout van Aert may have remained in the Tour de France lead on Wednesday, but his subsequent description of stage 5 as a “shit day” for the Jumbo-Visma squad neatly encapsulated just how fraught the previous few hours of racing had been for the Belgian and his squad.
In a miasma of dust, crashes and confusion on Wednesday’s dramatic race across the cobbles of northern France, Van Aert himself fell once, nearly collided with a DSM team car, and ended up racing wrongly convinced he was en route to losing the yellow.
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