Trek-Segafredo heads into the 2020 Tour de France with two leaders, Australian Richie Porte and Dutchman Bauke Mollema. Despite a number of big names crashing and rain making the race treacherous, Mollema and Porte finished Tuesday's fourth stage in Orcieres-Merretes safely inside the 16-man lead group and are currently in 11th and 16th place, respectively.

"It was good," Porte said in a team video interview after the stage. Bauke and I stayed in the main group. Mads [Pedersen] was exceptional and put us in a good position. Finally we had good weather.

"The last kilometer really hurt," he admitted. But the climb to the finish wasn't so bad...it really hurt when the GC guys were sprinting up the 4-5 percent climb. It was messy, but it was a good stage."

"We'll manage tomorrow," the 35-year-old said of Wednesday's fifth stage. The stage is primarily a downhill between Gap and Prevas, which should favor the sprinters. There are no easy stages in the Tour, and I was really fast today, but stage 6 (Le Taille to Mont Aigoual) is the first real mountain finish."

Mollema finished Orcières-Merret in 13th place, one place behind Porte, and agreed with his teammates that it was only the speed of the frontrunners in the race that made the final climb to the finish difficult.

"It was a bit of a strange climb, not super steep, not super long, and it was only 7km, so it was really explosive at the end," explained Mollema in a team announcement. The beginning of the climb was pretty easy, but the last 3-4 km were super hard paced."

"In the last kilometer, I had to sprint to stay in the pack and not lose a second. But I didn't have the sprinting power in my legs anymore," the 33-year-old admitted.

"I was pretty fast all day. I rode hard to get the break back and at the end it was just explosiveness with the GC guys," said Mollema.