RoundTaco Van Der Hoen (27) unexpectedly awarded Intermarshi and Ante Joubert a stage win at Giroud. The Dutchman shied away from jogging peloton after a long ride. Filippo Jana remains the leader even after today.
A day after Tim Merlier’s quick victory, the gyro had to do some climbing for the first time. In the Technical Final match, there were four medium-difficulty rises – Journey by Peter Sagan. The Slovak put his team to work in pursuit of a groundbreaking group of eight, including mountain jersey Vincenzo Albanese and Spring Chicken Andrei Ponomar. Alpecin-Fenix also lent a hand with Merlier, but after a while they pulled back into the background. Fugitives collected bullets at a maximum of 6’30 “in the rainy initial phase.
The platoon will be delayed
On the second of four hikes, the BORA-hansgrohe accelerated its pace. And that took victims: Pure runners like Dylan Gronwigen, Tim Merler and Caleb Ewan had to let the Peloton ride quickly. Shortly afterwards, European champion Giacomo Nizzolo – who was one of the first contenders – withdrew from the competition as well. Who made a good impression: Fernando Gaviria, who climbed up the Sagan’s wheel.
In the run-up to the last pimple of the day, Van der Horn and Pelod turned out to be the strongest up front. Julio Ciccone and Tony Gallopin counterattack upwards, but never lead the leaders duo. In flat kilometers toward the end, Van der Hoen threw fellow refugee Beloud into the sea. The Dutchman still had to compete for 8 kilometers against the peloton chase.
The crowd was still very close, but with the monster’s resistance, Van der Hoen concluded the penalty number correctly. Cimolai sprinted to second place in his heels, ahead of Peter Sagan. Filippo Ganna – just like Remco Evenepoel – has had no problems and will also start pink tomorrow too.
Van der Horn cannot believe this himself:
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