Primoz Roglic won stage 19, Thomas is the leader of the Tour de France 2018 – Cycling – Sports



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This Friday was stage 19 of the Tour de France on 200.5 kilometers between Lourdes and Laruns, where runner Primoz Roglic was crowned with a time of 5 hours, 28 minutes and 17 seconds.

British General Geraint Thomas continues with the leader's yellow jersey, with two days to complete the competition.

Slovenia's Primoz Roglic, the Lotto team, was the big winner on the last day of the Tour de France mountain, winning this Friday in the nineteenth stage, which took third place overall in the British Chris Froome.

Geraint Thomas, who kept the yellow jersey, came in second 19 seconds behind the Slovenian, a group that was also Froome and the Dutch Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb), who retained the second place.

In addition to Froome, the other great vanquished scene was the Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar), who was scholgado at the beginning of the ascent to Aubisque, last port of the day after an attack from Roglic and Dumoulin, just over 30 km from the goal.

Quintana, who had fallen the day before and had several injuries in his body, entered the 19th position of the scene, 7:09 behind Roglic and came down from fifth to ninth place overall, to 10:26 Thomas

At this stage of 200.5 km between Lourdes and Laruns, with six mountain pbades, including the Tourmalet, Roglic attacked in the descent of the port of Aubisque, l & # 39; Another big difficulty of the day, about 10 km from the finish, ensuring victory.

With 19 seconds in advance, plus ten bonus as the stage winner, Roglic occupies the last step of the podium, at 2 minutes and 24 seconds away from Thomas, while Dumoulin is second, 2:05, and Froome is down to fourth, 2:37.

The bad news for Movistar was Quintana's problems, Although he was able to place Mikel Landa among the favorites in the stage and entered seventh, 19 seconds behind Roglic and climbed into the overall standings. seventh in sixth place, at 4:40.

Everything seems to indicate that Thomas has a very close triumph, while Dumoulin, Roglic and Froome will be played Saturday the other two places on the podium, in the 31km individual time trial

AFP

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