Yeah agreed, it's the only thing they're in the Tour for so he'll do anything to get those points back on the course sprints, but it's quite a gap. Will be interesting. I think if he had already won one or more stages and was comfortably in green, he wouldn't have even attempted to go past Van Aert yesterday. He seems desperate.
He got off cheaply imo and could've/should've been ejected from the Tour entirely. The outcome was good yesterday because Van Aert stayed on his bike, but what if he went to his left because of what Sagan did, fell and took Bennett (and potentially Ewan) with him? The outcome of the violation should not determine the punishment but sadly it did yesterday. This fecking crap needs to be cut from sprinting altogether to make it safe again, now more than ever. If they wanted to make an example of it, he'd be on his way home right now. There's simply no time or place for that stuff during sprints and riders should be aware of the consequences by now when they do stuff like that.