Rest days: some riders love them — Peter Sagan is intending to spend all day in bed — while others hate the break in the rhythm of the Tour that the lack of a racing day brings.
After yesterday’s stage, however — raced in searing heat and at such a pace that Steve Cummings, the British rider, described it as “like a Moto GP” — and a Tour with, for some at least, too many long stages, 24 hours in and around Berne, meeting family and friends and taking in a casual hour or two on the bike, will be a welcome break.
For many years there was just one rest day in the Tour de France, but that edict was changed after the doping