"It was a very terrible day" – Mattias Skjelmose's GC dreams in tatters after stage 10 of 2025 Tour de France

Ten stages into the Tour de France, Mattias Skjelmose is ready for a break. After a brutal daywith plenty of elevation, the Lidl-Trek rider slipped to 15th overall, nearly eight minutes down on Simon Yates, who took the stage win.

Skjelmose didn’t mince words when speaking to TV 2 Sport after the stage, “I said this morning that it was a really great day if you have good legs, and a terrible day if you have bad legs. I ended up in the latter category. It was a very terrible day.”

The Dane, who came into the Tour off a big spring win beating Tadej Pogacar and Remco Evenepoel at Amstel Gold Race, had hopes of being in the mix. Early in the stage, he made an effort to go with the break.

“I tried to join the breakaway from the start. I actually thought the UAE would keep it pretty tight, so I only tried once and then I gave up.”

But with his legs fading, even that option didn’t seem likely to work out for him, “In the end I don't think it would have changed anything. With these legs, it wasn't because I had driven in yellow anyway.”