Exiting sector number 9, the one leading from Pont-Thibault to Ennevelin, Tadej Pogacar got carried away by his eagerness, approached a right-angle turn at too high a speed and - perhaps also frightened by a motorcycle parked against the barriers - fell. The world champion got up immediately, but his bike was no longer usable and Pogacar restarted with twenty seconds of delay from Mathieu Van der Poel.