This year's Tour de Suisse has provided ample rewards for breakaway riders as the race heads into the final weekend, with Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) winning the opening stage and taking the GC lead from a large break on stage 1 then Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) soloing home from the break of the day on stage 3.
After two days of GC confrontations on stages 4 and 5, Friday's sixth stage would host a battle between those breakaway men and the peloton's sprinters, who only had this stage to look forward to all week.
