After the rest day, O’Connor still has an advantage of almost 4 minutes over his closest rival, Primoz Roglic, and he’s looking good. Roglic apparently hasn’t felt as strong, and hasn’t struck on the typical climbs we would expect him to use to put time into O’Connor and other rivals. Joao Almeida is out of the race with COVID, and Adam Yates is now UAE’s top GC man, ~ 5:30 back from O’Connor. Sepp Kuss does not seem to be in top form and will probably not defend his red jersey. Richard Carapaz, Enric Mas, and Mikel Landa are ~30 seconds away from Roglic after the first rest day.