Villeneuve-sur-Lot. Eritrean bike owner Biniam Girmay gained his third stage within the present Tour de France by successful the dash on Thursday on the end line in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, the place Slovenian Primoz Roglic misplaced greater than a minute resulting from a fall.
After this twelfth stage of the French race, Tadej Pogacar has simply retained his yellow chief’s jersey, with a 1:06 lead over Remco Evenepoel and 1:14 over Jonas Vingegaard.
Roglic, fourth in the beginning of the day, crashed 12 kilometres from the end, dropping him two locations within the basic classification.
After having suffered an accident the day gone by, the Pink Bull-Bora rider fell once more together with different members of the peloton, reminiscent of Mathieu van der Poel.
Though Roglic managed to complete the stage, this meant he misplaced 2:27 to the primary rider on the end line.
Girmay gained forward of Belgian Wout Van Aert and Frenchman Arnaud Démare.
After a really demanding stage on Wednesday, a speedy breakaway led by Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen and French riders Valentin Madouas, Quentin Pacher and Anthony Turgis occurred on Thursday.
The 4 of them constructed up a three-minute lead over the peloton, however have been unable to take care of it and have been caught by the peloton about 40 kilometres from the end.
The collected fatigue after the demanding route the day earlier than in Cantal was mirrored in a number of riders who deserted the race, reminiscent of Fabio Jakobsen or Pello Bilbao.
Within the case of Michael Morkov, he additionally didn’t begin the twelfth stage after testing optimistic for Covid-19.
Sprinters can have one other likelihood on Friday when the route between Agen and Pau is actually flat.
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– 2024-07-12 03:46:20
