The peloton are on their second rest day, in Morzine, on a Tour de France already packed with incident, controversy and excitement. Rouleur's James Startt is in Morzine, editor Ed Pickering is close by - they join Ian Parkinson to pick apart the stages and characters so far. Questions on the agenda: is there anything that Wout Van Aert can't do, can anyone stop Tadej Pogačar and was Fred Wright robbed of his rightful combativity prize? More worryingly, could Covid in the peloton upset all our expectations?

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