After more than four hours on one of the Tour’s grueling stages, naturally flat and under a scorching sun, the Belgian JAsper Philipsen has achieved a great sprint victory on the streets of Nimesafter being fastest in the sprint and the sensational work the Dutchman did for him the other day Mathieu Van der Poel.
I can’t get the 16th stage of the Tour de France another outcome that didn’t go into the sprint. It came after a second and well-deserved rest day, the last chance for the sprinters to show their qualities. The only fourth-level category (Côte de Fambetou) did not present any problem for the fastest man in the peloton, who gradually consumed the 188 kilometers of the day, waiting to decide the stage at full speed.
The favorites sat back all day and let themselves be carried by the peloton, protected by their team-mates, awaiting bigger challenges in the rest of the Tour where they really had to play the specific positions a podium dominating a steady hand Tadej Pogacarfollowed by Jonas Vingegaard and from Remco Evenepoel.
French only Thomas Gachinard, after the flying finish line and towards the fourth level of the category, dared to try something, to get ahead of the peloton dominated by the sprinter teams, with the permission of the best squads in the peloton. They let him travel several kilometers, leading for just over two minutes, until he was overtaken at full speed. Even Gachinard He was voted the most defensive runner of the day. He no longer has many rivals.
The moment of truth
As the end approached, tension rose in the peloton, with a finish line where the runners wanted to be Cavendish either Kristoff They already know what it’s like to win. The sprinter teams gradually take their place in a very long peloton. Uno-X, Lotto, Arkéa, Intermarché or Lidl-Trek tried to position themselves well to launch their fastest people, in a strategy with several roundabouts. In one of them the Eritrean Biniam Girmay He went to ground and at the finish line Van der Poel took the train and put his partner in the car at full speed. Alpecin Philipsenwho sometimes Mathieu sidestepped and flew toward the goal, earning his third victory here Tour de France and tied the number of wins with Girmay.
After this attack on the day, this Wednesday is a mid-mountain stage, with more crumbs than one of the peloton’s best-known surnames can seem to take advantage of.
Source: La Verdad
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