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Vingegaard took the mountain finish at Uchon after attacking at 1 km to go, 42 seconds clear of Daniel Martínez and putting the GC question on early terms. Atrocious weather, a mass crash, and Juan Ayuso's race-ending injury made it the spring's most chaotic GC stage to date.
195 km from Bourges to the Uchon mountain finish in atrocious weather. Vingegaard attacked at 1 km to go and rode away for the stage. A mass crash earlier in the stage ended Juan Ayuso's race; the UAE Tour podium man abandoned injured.
First major GC selection. Vingegaard takes the leader's jersey and the GC question is now everyone's response to him.
Crashed in the day's mass-crash, abandoned injured. UAE's GC card for the week now void; the spring's first major GC casualty.
Mass crash earlier in the stage in atrocious weather
— Juan Ayuso (UAE) abandoned injured