Maybe we should tell our soigneurs to stand a little bit further apart from each other' says Visma-Lease a Bike's Niermann after feed zone moment on stage 7

And after Jonas Vingegaard’s punchy second-place finish on the Mûr-de-Bretagne pinned on the wheel of Pogačar, Visma is ready to fly the banner. Jorgenson says Wednesday’s TT debacle is firmly in the rear-view mirror as the Tour edges toward the first decisive major climbs.

Ahead of the looming mountain tests that will determine the winner of this year’s race, Tadej Pogačar has become visibly irritated with Visma’s tactics in recent days, which seemed designed to put the Slovenian back into yellow, even though he might have preferred someone else to have it on the flatter transition days south.