The Tour de France has a new hero. While Tadej Pogačar and his UAE Team Emirates-XRG squad seems to have a stranglehold on the GC race yet again, Baptiste Veistroffer (Lotto Intermarché) has emerged as a national hero thanks to going on the attack on the flat stages, ignoring the fact that he has little chance of victory.
The 26-year-old from Brittany attacked alone from the gun on stage 5 to Pau and attacked again during stage 7 to Bordeaux, with Jakub Otruba (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) joining him out front. The two were never let go by the peloton but animated the long, hot ride to Bordeaux.
