“Uh-oh,” the email reads. “Someone stole your KOM.” It’s probably not the kind of thing you need when racing the Tour de France and we think we know someone who has been getting a lot of them.
“We’re in the region of Romain Bardet who has all the KOMs here and I think he’s going to lose them all,” says Oliver Naesen, rider with Ag2r-Citroën, with just a tiny hint of glee ahead of stage 11 through the Massif Central. “The stage yesterday [to Issoire] and also three days ago [to Puy de Dôme] the pace was extremely high. We were raking in KOMs.”
In this respect Bardet is like any of us when the WorldTour peloton comes to town; if you’re not losing the KOM you’re probably taking a
