Pedersen makes a nice breakaway on a moving day for Tour favorites

Breakaway muscle prevailed over the speed of the sprinters. After saying goodbye to Alps the punished platoon of Tour de France face a relatively deceptive transition day of 192.6 kilometers, showing three scoring mountain passes on the route and an altitude difference of more than 2,000 meters (specifically 2,109 meters). One day that resulted in an uncertain end, with many options for the stage to be decided by the sprint or for the escape to succeed. There was ground for both possibilities to come true.

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And finally, in a battle conducted under the blazing sun (35º) the victory went to the power of escape, which made the story beautiful, on the other hand. Prior to this Friday’s stage, the Tour played four partials starting at The Bourg d’Oisans and aim at Saint-Etienne. All of them were programmed after a high end in the Alpe d’Huez, like yesterday, and in all of them the escape was imposed, with Franco Chioccioli in 1992, max sciandri in 1995, Ludo Dierckxsens in 199 and Marcus Burghardt in 2008, added this year the fifth success on the streets of capital of the Loire department.

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A victory that we can also say is fair. He is the former world champion mad petersen the first to precede the group discipline once the start was given, adding six more runners after a few kilometers: Ganna, Jorgenson, Wright, If, Simmons, and Houle. Meter to meter, the breakaway took seconds, never too much, but enough to think that they could aspire to play for victory on their own, especially since calm prevailed over favorites and because the sprinters were the tiredness of the Alps reigned, as he met at the exit of himself Fabio Jacobsen: “I don’t know if I’m ready for the sprint. The stage was tough and hot, but I suffered a lot in the Alps”, as the last came in Col du Granon and the penultimate to Alpe d’Huez.

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product of fatigue Jacobsen produces rubber for several kilometers, which also caused the collapse of Caleb Evan and this is what motivates only the Bike Exchange will try to lasso the escaped, thinking of options matthews and he achieved his first victory after two second positions.

Third win for Denmark in this Tour

With 23 minutes left and after crowning the last difficulty of the day, the advantage of the escapees was 2’29 “, drawing a hopeful scenario for them. Three kilometers from the finish line Fred Wright the first of those who escaped to attack, followed without difficulty Pedersen, who will eventually become the smartest and strongest. Victory will be between the two of them and angal.

They faced the last 400 meters with Houle in first position and behind his wheel Pedersen Y Wright and it was the Dane who, with 300 meters to go, launched his deadly attack, easily imposing his maximum speed. 15th victory for a Danish rider on Tour de France and 24th for self Pedersen, his first in a three -week grand tour. At 5’45 ”the favorites arrive, counting the minutes left to retire to their buses, relax and face Saturday’s stage, which is more demanding, with up to five climbs, and where Pogacar there will be enough ground to act.