Baptiste Veistroffer seemed incredulous at various points during his solo breakaway on stage 5 of the Tour de France. “Three minutes only, with one guy alone?” he asked of his directors in the team car, almost finding comedy in the proximity at which he, as one versus 181, was being patrolled by the powers of the peloton.
When it was all said and done, he asked himself why none of those 181 had been minded to join him.
