Was it from today’s coverage that Phil said that? I confess on these very long stages and FF ahead through some of it b/c it’s just the peloton motoring down the road...and down the road...etc. If you can recall something that was going on at the time, I still have it on my DVR.
One thing I have noticed this year is that they have shown a lot of “natural breaks” as Paul puts it. It’s pretty comical seeing twenty or so of them standing on the side of the road.
Judging from what I was doing, I think it was with about 45 miles left and was (maybe) not too far from an intermediate sprint.