Philipsen won the sprint on a bad day for the leader, who lost two weight partners

On a great cycling tour of three weeks and more Tour de France no quiet day, no matter how the profile of a stage invites us to imagine it, as seen this Sunday in 15th round of the 109th edition of the Tour de France. A day that offers a ‘peaceful’ route, with little difficulty for runners, where the big doubt is whether a breakaway will occur or whether the sprinter teams will have enough strength to put their fastest arrows in readiness to fight for victory, but where many things happened, more than it seems at first glance.

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The day started at no departure from Slovenian Primoz Roglicthat when he saw that his body did not respond as he wished, that he had not fully recovered from the fall he had suffered in the stage of arenbergdecided not to go out, thinking mainly of coming to the highest form in the the returnwhere he will find his fourth consecutive victory and where he is most likely to find his great rival and countryman, Tadej Pogacar. They didn’t even ride the bike Magnus Cort Nielsen Y simon clarkevictims of coronavirus clutches, and the organization, seeing the heat that runners will face, 40º, has adopted special measures to guarantee the health of athletes.

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To combat the heat, ice is the runners ’great ally, putting it on the back of the jersey to keep them cool and some, like Pogacarhe cooled his feet with them, put some ice under the sock.

But no matter how hot it is, there are runners who are not afraid of high temperatures, and one of them is the Belgian. Wout Van Aert, who re -entered the initial escape, with honor Y Politt, but who from the car, seeing that his adventure was nowhere to be found, decided to tell him to stop with good judgment. And well, they saw what would happen shortly.

First in the fall of his companion Steven Kruijswijkto leave racing in an ambulance with a likely collarbone fracture, and then with terror that day, when Benoot and the leader Vingegaard they also went to the ground, although fortunately and after a while they returned to the discipline of the group, still a little out of breath and a little bruised and bruised.

Bad luck hit Jumbo-Visma

The race progressed despite protests and road boycott attempts that ended in nothing and there were some cyclists who tried, such as Rutsch, Benjamin Thomas or Alexis Gougeardtaking advantage of the last elevation of the sun, the Cote des Cammazes, from 5.1 kilometers to 4.1%. Of them all the most persevering is the runner from Cofidisthe French Thomasa good time trialist, who fought to the end to lift his foot just under 300 meters.

Behind him is the group of wolves from the platoon, along with sprinters who can carry the knife between their teeth and have an amazing Van Aert. He’s a very good runner, he’s good at everything and he’s close to winning, if not with very little Dane hitting. mad petersen he hit him in the sprint fight, falling to the Belgian side Jasper Phillipsenwho achieved his fifth victory of the season and his 19th as a professional.

Philipsen took over from Cavendishnothing this year in Carcassonne, the day before the new and well-deserved rest that all runners will take advantage of. Parang pokecar, to regain energy, study the stages in detail and see where you can have options to overcome the leader Vingegaardwhich is very strong to this day, but has lost two important men facing the mountains, such as Roglic Y kruijswijk; We’ll see if these casualties take him to the final week of the race.