📸 Ouch! Coquard fractures finger while reaching for musette during Stage 12

The sprinter stood at the side of the road, saw the breakaway group ride away from him, and, a good two minutes later, also saw the peloton race past. Coquard was left behind and had to chase alone. The 33-year-old was joined by the team car and the race doctor at the side of the road.

A little later, French television reported what they believed to be the cause of Coquard's time loss. “Bryan Coquard broke a finger while trying to grab a musette at high speed.” So things went wrong for Coquard during the medical treatment, who had already received criticism earlier in this Tour after Jasper Philipsen's crash (Alpecin-Deceuninck).