Tour de France news: Poels has to leave the bulb jersey to Woods after a fierce battle Tour de France

sport">SATURDAY 10 JULY

Poels has to leave the bulb jersey to Woods after a fierce battle

sport">8.22 pm: After a fierce battle for the points in the mountains classification, Wout Poels had to leave the polka dot jersey to Canadian Michael Woods after the fourteenth stage. The Limburger from Bahrain-Victorious could no longer participate in the first group behind the escaped Bauke Mollema in the final phase of the stage and had to allow the remaining points on the last climb to go to his competitor Woods. He took over the polka dot jersey from Colombian Nairo Quintana.

sport">“I am the first Canadian to conquer the polka dot jersey,” said Woods, who drives for Israel Start-Up Nation. “Almost all the riders of our team have fallen, so this jersey will boost our morale. I will try to keep the jersey, but first I had to see how I feel after my fall this Saturday.”

sport">Woods fought an exciting duel with Poels on the climbs in the fourteenth stage. With the points on the Col de Saint-Louis he secured the lead in the mountains classification with 54 points. Quintana follows with 50 points and Poels has 49.

Sports director De Jongh: only Mollema can win in this way

sport">6.27 pm: Sports director Steven de Jongh of Trek-Segafredo has enjoyed the way Bauke Mollema won the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France. After a solo of more than 40 kilometers, the 34-year-old Groninger gave his team the first stage victory in this Tour de France. “He went very early and was quickly out of sight on that twisty section. He got into his rhythm and kept running out,” De Jongh told the NOS. “Only Bauke can win in such a way.”

sport">De Jongh praised his rider whose victory was never in danger again. “I saw that the conviction among the pursuers was no longer there. Bauke rides without a bicycle computer. We gave him another gel and a half bottle and passed on what lead he had.”

sport">The Trek-Segafredo sports director can finally celebrate after previous attempts to win a stage had just failed. “If you drive aggressively in the Tour, it often pays off. We have been unlucky twice. With Wout van Aert and a super Matej Mohoric we came second twice. But we had shown that we had good legs. That is also good for the morale of the boys.”

Andersen and Barguil no longer start

sport">12.23 pm: Søren Kragh Andersen will not appear at the start on Saturday for the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France. The Danish driver of cycling team DSM is suffering too much from the consequences of a crash. He ended up in a ditch on Friday and had to climb up between trees.

sport">Kragh Andersen won two more stages in the Tour de France last year. “I am very disappointed and don’t really want to leave the Tour like this,” said the Dane. “But I know in my heart that the decision of the team’s medical staff is the right one.” The Tour de France is also over for Warren Barguil. The French rider of Arkéa Samsic was involved in the same crash on Friday.

sport">This means that the number of victims as a result of this fall is already five. Simon Yates, Lucas Hamilton and Roger Kluge already gave up during the stage. In addition, a number of riders with injuries are still in the race.

sport">Rider Michael Woods, who is still in the race, reacts angrily to the organization. “The responsibility for this fall rests with the organizers. There was no signage anywhere and there were no signalmen to warn us that a gravel lane was approaching. This piece should have been neutralized. I felt like a lemming being pushed into the ravine. We are lucky that no more riders were injured.”

sport">FRIDAY 9 JULY

Tour boss Prudhomme: Cavendish is the biggest sprinter in the Tour

sport">9.21 pm: Tour boss Christian Prudhomme has congratulated Mark Cavendish after equaling the record number of 34 stage victories in the Tour de France of Belgian Eddy Merckx. “He is the greatest sprinter in the history of the Tour and cycling,” said the Tour boss after the British sprinter’s victory in Carcassonne in the thirteenth Tour stage. “But Eddy Merckx is the greatest rider and champion.”

sport">After Cavendish took his first victory in this Tour, Prudhomme knew it was possible to equal the record. “When he won his first stage, I knew he had started a series,” the Tour boss said sporza. “34 stage wins is phenomenal. He did that between 2008 and 2021, with 13 years in between.”

Cees Bol did not have the legs after the crash

sport">9.14 pm: Cees Bol was not involved in the final of the thirteenth Tour stage in Carcassonne. “I already had to suffer quite a bit to come back and I just didn’t have the legs,” said the Team DSM sprinter at the NOS. The North Hollander was brought forward by teammate Nils Eekhoff, but did not get further than nineteenth place in the stage won by Mark Cavendish.

sport">Bol and almost all his teammates were involved in a big crash at sixty kilometers from the finish. “We are driving on a high speed descent and out of nowhere the whole road is full of gravel. The entire section to the right of the pack slid into the berm. None of the riders could do anything about that,” he said. He pointed to the organization that should have warned the teams and riders better. “I was there and my bike was 5 meters away, so I stood there for quite a while. Fortunately, my shoulder is not that bad and I hope it is not that bad for everyone, because I have seen riders who were in worse shape.”

sport">Because he still had to come back afterwards, it was best for the sprinter. „It was a very chaotic final and I was alone with Nils at the front. He was super strong, but I just couldn’t.”

Cyclists Kluge, Hamilton and Yates after falling from the Tour de France

sport">Cyclists Roger Kluge, Lucas Hamilton and Simon Yates have had to leave the Tour de France. The 35-year-old German from Lotto Soudal and the 28-year-old Brit from Team BikeExchange were involved in a big crash about sixty kilometers from the finish.

sport">Kluge was in last place in the overall standings. Yates was number 39, just over an hour from the yellow jersey. The Briton won two stages in the 2019 Tour.

sport">In a bend, many riders crashed and some even went off the road and ended up in a lower berm. The Dane Søren Kragh Andersen of Team DSM had to climb up from the berm between the trees. The team reported on social media that all the riders of the team were involved in the crash, but were back on their bikes.

sport">Wout Poels was also involved in the fall and the Belgian Tim Declercq van Deceuninck – Quick-Step. One of the helpers of yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogacar was also present with the Polish rider Rafal Majka.

sport">THURSDAY 8 JULY

Delayed start due to wind with impeller potential

sport">12.03 pm: The start of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France has been postponed by ten minutes from 13:40 to 13:50. This has to do with the strong (tail) wind that is on the course.

sport">As a result, there is a good chance of fans during the course. Tuesday there was also quite a bit of wind during the stage, won by Mark Cavendish. Even then there were some fans in the final.

sport">WEDNESDAY 7 JULY

No bone fractures at Tony Martin

sport">10:33 PM German rider Tony Martin has not suffered any fractures in his fall in the Tour de France on Wednesday. His team Jumbo-Visma makes this known on the website. The 36-year-old German already fell at the beginning of the stage and had to stop fighting.

sport">“He is extensively stitched and bandaged to his wounds. He has tooth pain and suffered several abrasions,” said his team.

sport">Martin’s withdrawal was another downer for Jumbo-Visma. Earlier, Robert Gesink and Slovenian Primoz Roglic had to leave the Tour. Thanks to Wout van Aert, the team was still able to cheer at the end of the day. The Belgian gave his team the victory in the eleventh stage, a stage that led twice over the famous Mont Ventoux.

Belgian Benoot gives up in Tour de France

sport">3:56 pm: Team DSM has lost a second rider in the Tour de France. The Belgian Tiesj Benoot got off on Wednesday halfway through the eleventh stage. DSM already lost the German Jasha Sütterlin on the first day.

sport">Benoot is already the sixth quitter in the stage that crosses the Mont Ventoux twice. Earlier, the German Tony Martin disappeared by ambulance to the hospital after a fall. Briton Daniel Mclay, Frenchman Clément Russo, Belgian Tosh van der Sande and Australian Miles Scotson also called it quits.

Jumbo-Visma also loses German Martin after a fall

sport">13:08: The German Tony Martin had to give up on Wednesday in the eleventh stage of the Tour de France after another fall. This already happened at the beginning of the stage, when the peloton reached speeds of over 50 kilometers per hour. Martin ended up on the verge and probably injured his leg and elbow. He is already the third rider of Jumbo-Visma who had to leave the Tour as a result of a fall. Robert Gesink and Slovenian leader Primoz Roglic had already dismounted earlier.

sport">Martin had already fallen on the first stage after colliding with an inattentive spectator who was standing half on the road with his back to the peloton with a cardboard sign. On Wednesday he was examined for some time on the side of the road and then left the Tour by ambulance.

sport">MONDAY 5 JULY

Van der Poels cycling team earned the most in the first Tour week

sport">12.09 pm: Alpecin-Fenix, Mathieu van der Poel’s cycling team, earned the most in the first nine days of the Tour de France. Thanks in part to the two stage victories of Van der Poel and Tim Merlier, the income of the Belgian team came to 51,660 euros according to the Tour organization. Van der Poel also wore the yellow jersey for six days before not starting the ninth stage on Sunday.

sport">Alpecin-Fenix ​​earned just a little more than Deceuninck – Quick-Step, which won three stages with Julian Alaphilippe and Mark Cavendish (2) and thus came to 51,580 euros. Bahrain-Victorious, Wout Poels’ team, also did well. Partly due to the stage victories of Matej Mohoric and Dylan Teuns, the team earned 48,400 euros.

sport">The income for Jumbo-Visma has so far amounted to 24,460 euros. Team Qhubeka Nexthash earned the least in the first Tour week with only 1,840 euros.

sport">SUNDAY 4 JULY

sport">The ninth stage in the Tour de France was a tough mountain stage in very wet conditions. No fewer than seven riders did not meet the time limit. Arnaud Demare, Jacopo Guarnieri, Anthony Delaplace, Stefan de Bod, Nic Dlamini, Loïc Vliegen and Bryan Coquard had fallen too far behind to continue on this lap. The southern Fraikaan Nich Dlamini also does not have to come back. He finished about an hour and a half behind stage winner Ben O’Connor.

sport">With Demare and Coquard, the field of sprinters thins out a lot further this Tour de France. Earlier in the stage, stage winner Tim Merlier also gave up.

sport">Green jersey wearer Mark Cavendish is allowed to continue. You can see how he is driven across the finish line just in time by his teammates Tim Declerq and Davide Ballerini, whom he thanked extensively for their services afterwards.

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