As the Tour de France nears its end after three hard weeks of racing, tempers are short, with so many wanting something out of the last couple of days, and all exhausted. There is beef seemingly everywhere, whether in the local restaurants or between teams; watching an Uno-X car attempt to get out of the team paddock post-race, and seemingly get in the way of some Tudor Pro Cycling staff, the beef was very much at the surface.
One place there is apparently no beef, however, is in the relationship between Matteo Jorgenson of Visma-Lease a Bike and Tim Wellens of UAE Team Emirates-XRG. The pair were in the day’s breakaway on stage 20, and were two of the strongest options, but in the end, marked each other out of contention. It’s not the first time that Visma and UAE, the two teams going for yellow at this race, have been pushing each other at this race, or exasperated at each other either.
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