There I was, penning my thoughts about how the four main contenders for the Tour de France seem to be running away from everyone else, when three of that classy quartet – Jonas Vingegaard, Primož Roglič and Remco Evenepoel – ran off the road in a high-speed crash in the Basque Country that looks to have turned the season on its head.
Not one to let such a curveball become a pump in the spokes, I’ve picked myself up and pressed