second. Stage 74 September 2020 – Millau to Lavaur, Benoît Cosnefroy jumped out of the peloton early on to claim the maximum points on offer in the mountains classification at the Côte de Luzençon less than ten kilometers into the stage. Behind him, took to the front and began to set a fast pace, inadvertently catching Cosnefroy shortly before the summit and forcing the mountains classification leader to put in a second acceleration to earn his points. At the same time, the fast pace caused many sprinters to be dropped, including Caleb Ewan, Elia Viviani, Cees Bol, Giacomo Nizzolo, Alexander Kristoff, and points classification leader Sam Bennett, much to the benefit of sprinter Peter Sagan, who sought to reclaim the green jersey. At the intermediate sprint, Matteo Trentin just managed to hold off Sagan on the line. After the Col de Peyronnenc, Thomas de Gendt made a solo breakaway effort, but he never managed to get an advantage of one minute over the peloton, who reeled him in with under 35 kilometers to go. At the same time, upped the pace and the remaining peloton further split into several groups. Among the general classification contenders who caught out were Tadej Pogačar, Mikel Landa, Richard Carapaz, and the duo of Bauke Mollema and Richie Porte. In the ensuing bunch sprint, Wout van Aert powered through along the barriers to take his second stage win in three days. Pogačar led home the second group, which finished nearly a minute and a half behind the front group, while the dropped sprinters would eventually roll across the line over 14 minutes in arrears. As a result of the intermediate sprint points and his 13th place finish, Sagan took back the green jersey from Bennett. Stage 85 September 2020 – Cazères to Loudenvielle, Thirteen riders formed the day's breakaway: Benoît Cosnefroy and Nans Peters (), Quentin Pacher and Kévin Reza (), Ilnur Zakarin (), Michael Mørkøv (), Neilson Powless (), Ben Hermans (), Carlos Verona (), Søren Kragh Andersen (), Jérôme Cousin and Fabien Grellier (), and Toms Skujiņš (). None of them were placed highly in the general classification, with best-placed Zakarin being over 16 minutes behind Adam Yates, so the peloton allowed them to race for the stage win; at one point, the breakaway was over 14 minutes ahead. Cousin won the intermediate sprint at Sengouagnet relatively uncontested, as Mørkøv led the rest