"C'est la vie, eh," Jai Hindley said once he had begun to warm down outside the Bora-Hansgrohe bus in Culoz after he had descended from the finish of stage 13 of the Tour de France atop the Grand Colombier.
Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard continue to inhabit a separate realm from everybody else, but Hindley remains steadfastly in his place as the race's third man. The Australian limited the damage better than most on the mountain to retain third place overall ahead of the race's entry into the Alps.
