As a former winner over Mont Ventoux in the Tour de France you might have expected Wout van Aert to have kicked off the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes with something better than the rather inauspicious start he did make.
On stage one yesterday, a 146km mid-mountains outing from Viziers to Saint-Ismier, the Visma-Lease a Bike rider lost 24 minutes and finished way down in 127th place.