Groenewegen won the sprint before a duel between Pogacar and Vingegaard in the time trial

The sixth stage of the Tour de France There is still a day left to decide on the sprint. The Dutch Dylan Groenwegen (Team Jayco AlUla) was declared the winner on a day where the wind was the protagonist after causing several races, but where the favorites saved them to Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) came out on top in the time trial this Friday.

was added Groenewegen’s sixth career Tour de France victory, seventy-four professionals after being proclaimed champion of the Netherlands a few days ago. He polished his jersey in the toughest race in the world after winning at the highest speed Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) already Biniam Girmay (Interarché-Wanty). It was a day of no surprises, with the sprint as the finish to a flat day.

The day shown 163.5 kilometers between Mâcon and Dijon. In it, without apparent difficulties in terms of the route, it became wind which caused confusion, with many nerves in the peloton that left continuous contacts, battles for positions and several crashes that seemed to end without consequences.

This is the first ascent of the Bois Clairfourth category and 1.6 kilometers at 6%, causing a timid attack behind the head of the mountain Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) and Axel Zingle (Cofidis). With no other intention than to add points for the lunar classification, both opened up a few seconds of difference in the face of the passivity of a platoon willing to save energy, so that about thirty kilometers later they were caught.

The rain didn’t change the route map of the multi-colored snake, which converged on the central part of the stage where the wind threatened to cause problems. It caused constant battle for positions in front of the platoon that took some victims.

a period Mark Cavendish, who suffered a puncture that dropped him from the main group and cut off the peloton. He was cut off Juan Ayuso, with Tadej Pogacar discovered in the short kilometers where the group undertook to reunite. Although the Briton, a day after his legendary victory, did not fully adapt to his mount and needed a new bike change, after that he managed to rejoin the peloton.

The nerves are constant even though the peloton is at the same time. So, Abrahamsen He broke down at several obstacles late in the race where his nerves grew with each pedal stroke. In fact, there is still a hook less than ten kilometers from the end, this one has Marijn van den Berg (EF Education-EasyPost) as the most affected, although a priori without major consequences.

But this did not change the favorites, who arrived in the main group, with sprinters ready to risk victory. This, as expected, was decided in a final acceleration where Dylan Groenewegen he prevailed over Jasper Philipsen and Biniam Girmay, with Fernando Gaviria in fourth position. In this way, Groenewegen joined the list of winners in this edition of the Tour, with six in six different stages.

No problem, Tadej Pogacar retains the yellow jersey and distinctions about Remco Evenepoel and Jonas Vingegaard. This Friday is a different story: wait25.3 kilometer time trial between Nuits-Saint-Georges and Gevrey-Chambertin called to provoke changes in general, either in positions or in income.

Classifications

6th stage (Mâcon-Dijon, 163.5)
1. Dylan Groenewegen (Netherlands/Jayco AlUla) 3h 31’55” (10″ bonus)
2. Jasper Philipsen (Belgium/Alpecin-Deceuninck) id. (6″ bonus)
3. Biniam Girmay (Eritrea/Interarché-Wanty) id.
4. Fernando Gaviria (Colombia/Movistar) id.
5. Phil Bauhaus (Germany/Bahrain Victorious) id.
6. Arnaud De Lie (Belgium/Lotto Dstny) id.
7. Wout van Aert (Belgium/Team Visma-Lease a Bike) id.
8. Arnaud Démare (France/Arkéa-B&B Hotels) id.
9. Alexander Kristoff (Norway/Uno-X Mobility) id. (4″ bonus)
10 Pascal Ackermann (Germany/Israel-Premier Tech) id.

General
1. Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia/UAE Emirates) 26h 47’19”
2. Remco Evenepoel (Belgium/Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) at 45″
3. Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark/Visma-Lease a Bike) at 50″
4. Juan Ayuso (Spain/UAE Emirates) at 1’10”
5. Primoz Roglic (Slovenia/Red Bull-Bora-hansgrohe) at 1’14”
6. Carlos Rodríguez (Spain/INEOS Grenadiers) at 1’16”
7. Mikel Landa (Spain/Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) at 1’32”
8. Joao Almeida (Portugal/UAE Emirates) id.
9. Giulio Ciccone (Italy/Lidl-Trek) at 3’20”
10. Egan Bernal (Colombia/INEOS Grenadiers) at 3’21”