the first real mountain stage...thinking all the teams with a fighting chance of wearing yellow in paris (team jv, ineos, uae, ef ed, astana, arkea, trek...) try to send a rider in whatever break that forms.
de gendt will need no invitation and may initiate the proceedings. someone will have a bad day and take themselves out of any realistic shot at winning the overall. my suspects are pinot or either of the bora boys.
yates was the first name that popped into my head to win the stage but he's too close to yellow for dqs/alaphilippe to let him go. yates' teammate, nieve, is very capable and either he or chaves may have a go
to try and get their boy the yellow jersey and just might. with all that said, going with higuita ftw.

i'd love to see a valverde stage win tho...for the sake of both my teams.

and i'd also love to see astana send tejada in the break to see what he can do,