Tadej POGACAR. 100 with honors. He crushes a classics ace, someone who knows how it's done, but you can't fool the world champion slovenian too many times. One hundredth career victory in Rouen, in the world champion jersey, clearly beating the yellow jersey and Jonas Vingegaard. What a finish, what a show in this Tour of aces, with the aces taking everything for now. There's no winner like this, there's no boring stage, but only wonderful stages, because these are wonderful riders. He wanted a commemorative photo on the Tour roads, he wanted it with the rainbow jersey and the shot is one of the best, just like the defeated.

Mathieu VAN DER POEL. 8. He arrives with legs crossed and when he has to respond to the slovenian's razor-sharp move, he almost staggers. A clash of titans, of gigantic interpreters of a cycling made by giants.

Jonas VINGEGAARD. 10 with honors. Races like Pogacar, not giving him anything, never losing sight of him, always trying to put pressure on him. The impression the dane gives is of full health. Today he almost passed Van der Poel at the finish.

Oscar ONLEY. 10. Only 22 years old, but this young british rider surprises the world by staying there, with the world champion.

Romain GREGOIRE. 10. He's also 22, this young french rider, and his Tour start is absolutely top-level. He's always there, with the world cycling elite, because this is probably his level.

Joao ALMEIDA. 10. Gigantic team and Joao is its symbol and emblem. He races with clarity and freshness: superlative condition for a super race.

Remco EVENEPOEL. 5.5. He tries to make his mark, but bounces back just at the crucial moment. Something is missing, at the moment he doesn't seem like the Remco of his best days. Tomorrow he has his time trial, to set things right a bit.

Mattias SKJELMOSE. 6.5. He struggles a bit in the explosive finale, but the Lidl Trek guy has the great merit of not breaking down.

Kévin VAQUELIN. 7. Young, but not too young, strong, but not super like those guys, but he's there and that's not a small thing.

Primoz ROGLIC. 5. In four stages he has only lost ground. Today he also leaves 32" behind, now he's at 1'27". Calm start, perhaps too calm.

Ben O'CONNOR. 5. Loses almost 2'. It's true that the Tour is long and the difficult part hasn't arrived yet, but for now the australian hasn't shown much either.

Ben HEALY. 5. He should have and could have done more: it's not his day.

Lenny MARTINEZ. 7. Right from the start, the Bahrain Victorious guy and Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno X) take off. They are joined at km 3 by Thomas Gachignard, at km 8 by Kasper Asgreen. They are the ones trying to battle in a stage where nothing much happened.

Jean-René BERNAIDEAU. 69. Today not only Phil Bauhaus turned 31, but also the Total Energies team leader blew out 69 candles.

Kasper ASGREEN. 7. A nice burst and the Côte Jacques Anquetil is his.

Julian ALAPHILIPPE. 17. At the crucial moment, 33 from the finish, the former world champion gets a puncture and is forced to stop at a moment when there's a crash creating a traffic jam and crowding, making his return to the group complex.