
For once, Tadej Pogačar was off the pace and in trouble, sparking a call from an official for him to hurry up and some derision from the crowd.
While Mathieu van der Poel enjoyed a quiet day off, Wout Van Aert did a 90 minute gravel ride and Lotte Kopecky and her team SD Worx-Protime visited a chocolate factory, Pogačar and his partner Urška Žigart were in the headlines for all the wrong reasons on Monday, after disturbing a match at the Monte Carlo Masters tennis tournament.