Like a ride in the park: Tour de France leaders take it slow
ANGERS, France — Wearing the yellow jersey, Peter Sagan considered stopping at a cafe.
Hardly pedaling, the overall leaders in the Tour de France spent most of Monday’s third stage chatting to one another and riding at such a leisurely pace that they could have fit right in on a town bike path.
“It was a very relaxed day for us. We went slow. It was nice,” said Sagan, who playfully bumped shoulders with some of the other riders just to keep things interesting. “I was thinking one moment we were going to take the coffee like old time.”
The morning caffeine didn’t kick in until the very end of the lengthy and mostly flat 223.5-kilometre (139-mile) leg from Granville to Angers.