David Gaudu's struggles continue as the Frenchman is dropped with over 50km still to go

This was supposed to be David Gaudu's year at the Tour de France. The big French hope, a podium challenge was expected with Groupama-FDJ building their whole team around him. Sadly this has not been the case.

Fourth last year at the Tour de France, Gaudu started the day in 11th position. The Frenchman will seemingly be tumbling down the standings now though as he has already been dropped on stage 15 from a relatively large peloton being led by Jumbo-Visma and Dylan van Baarle.