You might be alarmed to hear that Joey Rosskopf in 116th was the only American to place in the top 130 on Thursday. It wasn’t all that bad though as all five Americans were actually part of the 166-man peloton so their actual positions didn’t cost them at all. As you’d expect with a massive peloton overall positions barely changed on the day with Nathan Brown remaining the top American, still in 50th place and 38:56 back. Joe Dombrowski remains 53rd with Chad Haga moving up one spot to 98th.

Friday they will return to a medium-mountain stage 106 miles in length.

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