Simon Yates: 'Sky are going to rip some legs off today'

Tour de France best young rider Simon Yates says that he is expecting a battle during Friday's stage in the Pyrenees

Simon Yates at the 2017 Tour de France

(Image credit: Yuzuru Sunada)

The Tour de France’s white jersey wearer Simon Yates says that he is expecting Team Sky to adopt some very aggressive tactics on today’s short stage after Chris Froome lost the yellow jersey on Thursday.

Yates, who himself lost 11 seconds to new yellow jersey rider Fabio Aru (Astana) on Thursday's 214km marathon climbing stage in the Pyrenees, said: “Froome is still going pretty good he’s not fully blown up and lost minutes, he’s lost a few seconds.

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