It was another spectacle of carnage among the peloton on the roads of France as riders hit some loose gravel on the road with 62 kilometres to go, many hitting the ground and others careering off the edge of the road and down a steep slope into the treeline.
Riders struggled to remount and continue the race, Tim Declercq (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Soren Kragh Andersen (Team DSM), Roger Kluge (Lotto Soudal) Simon Yates, Chris Juul-Jensen (both Team BikeExchange) appeared the worst off, Kluge abandoned the race immediately but the others remounted and continued with the race.
Yates abandoned the race after trying to continue, with Australian Lucas Hamilton (Team BikeExchange) also ruled out due to the fall.
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