The Visma-Lease a Bike team of Jonas Vingegaard were the protagonists, with several contenders for the overall classification — including Remco Evenepoel — distanced as the echelons formed. That main part of the peloton, which also contained Primoz Roglic and Geraint Thomas, ended up losing 49 seconds to the stage winner.

Brent van Moer, Burno Armirail, Andreas Leknessund and Yevgeniy Fedorov have around 95 seconds on the main peloton as Tadej Pogacar head up towards the front of the main bunch. Cofidis had 11 bikes stolen from their truck overnight before the start of the second stage of the Tour de France, the team said on Sunday.