That’s all for today … Thanks for joining me and for all the emails. It’s enjoyable reading your messages and I appreciate you keeping me company over the 178km of today’s stage. And, what a hectic day that was. I think I need to go recover from it, so that’s all from me today.
In the meantime, here are some more images from the Tour and today’s winner, Richard Carapaz.
Updated
Eurosport have spoke to Van Aert. He says: “Of course we also wanted to go for the stage, it was really difficult to create a breakaway today. There was so much interest [in a breakaway].”
Asked if he has his eyes on the stage win tomorrow, Van Aert replies: “Tomorrow is a stage I have on my mind, so we’ll see.” Tune in tomorrow for that.