Bonjour readers,
Unfortunately for Simon Yates (who won his first Tour de France stage), the story of the day was Rohan Dennis cracking it mid-stage, climbing into the team car, and quitting the Tour.
Far out ...
Rohan is pretty volatile to say the least. He's happy to tell a team manager that he's going to bash him. Some serious anger issues with him. For those who know him, you'll know it's something he's been dealing with for a long time.
This isn't the first time he's done this type of thing. Remember back in 2014 when he left Garmin-Sharp in the middle of the season and went to BMC? When have we ever seen that before? Basically what happened there is he already had a contract with BMC for the next year and JV showed him the door.
The word in the peloton about Rohan's nuclear meltdown was that he didn't like his Merida TT bike, and something about his skinsuit. Talk about throwing all your toys out of the pram ...
Pulling out the day before the ITT, where he's the main favourite, is very odd and isn't normal behaviour, and likely shows that Rohan is dealing with some serious demons.
His team handled the whole incident really poorly. Why would they take him to the team bus where journalists would be waiting, and then to the finish where more journalists would be waiting? It's ridiculous. But maybe they wanted to humiliate him ...?