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With most of the best sprinters in the Tour de France following mountain hikes, world champion Peter Sagan won a third Tour de France victory on Friday, winning the relatively flat 169.5 km race from Bourg d'Or. 39; Oisans. With most of the best sprinters in the Tour de France after mountain hikes, world champion Peter Sagan clinched his third victory in the Tour de France on Friday, winning the relatively flat 169.5 km race from Bourg de France. Oisans at close range.
Sprinters Fernando Gaviria of Colombia and Dylan Groenewegen of the Netherlands, winners of two stages each, gave up the race at the stage of Thursday at the summit of the iconic Alpe d'Huez , exhausted
The Slovak Sagan however crossed the first three mountain stages with relative ease and had enough gas in the tank for the final effort in Valencia, where he beat Norway's Alexander Kris. toff and Frenchman Arnaud Demare respectively second and third.
"My team did an incredible job, I took Kristoff's wheel for the sprint," said Sagan
. Britain's Geraint Thomas retained the leader's yellow jersey after being booed by the crowd before Chris Froome and teammate Sky Team
left. the top with Thomas leading champion Froome by a minute 39 seconds and the Dutchman Tom Dumoulin by 1:50.
The stage pbaded through Virille, once home to 1990 King Tour Mountains Thierry Claveyrolat, who committed suicide in 1999. [19659003] The squad left Bourg d'Oisans without Vincenzo Nibali after the departure of the 2014 champion after an accident apparently provoked by a spectator during the climb to the Alpe d'Huez
Tom Scully, New Zealand, Michael Schar, from Switzerland, as well as Thomas De Gendt and Dimitri Claeys, Belgian, were leashed by the main peloton.
Schar went solo with 25km, but the FDARA Groupama FDJ team sped up It took a mbad sprint five kilometers from the line.
In another incident affecting the race, a rocket was thrown into the peloton with less than 20 kms left, but no rider was
one kilometer from the finish, the Former world champion Philippe Gilbert jumped away from the pack but found himself short
Demare started a sprint 200 meters from the line, only for Sagan to come and snatch his 11th career win and extend his lead in the clbadification of points
