Sagan takes the 3rd victory in the Tour, Thomas remains at the top of the 13th stage

Peter Sagan won his third stage of the Tour de France, while Geraint Thomas retained his lead over teammate Chris Froome on Friday.

World Champion Sagan won a sprint of one wheel length to claim the 13th stage. -kilometer (105 miles) from Bourg-d'Oisans to Valencia in less than four hours

After overzealous supporters tainted Thomas's victory Thursday at the top of Alpe d'Huez The general calm of Friday's leg was briefly disrupted by a man on the side of the road who threw a smoke bomb into the center of the pack as he pbaded 16 kilometers away.

In addition to spitting yellow smoke, the bomb did not seem to hurt.

The race with impressive victories at the summit ends the previous two days

Sky's Welsh rider did not have a hard time maintaining his 1 minute 39 seconds advantage over defending champion Froome at run after three exhausting days. Alps.

The two Team Sky riddles Tom Dumoulin remained third overall 1:50 behind schedule. Primoz Roglic was fourth at 2:46 and Romain Bardet was fifth at 3:07.

Sagan perfectly clocked his movement, replacing Alexander Kristoff and Arnaud Demare, third at the finish line.

The 12th victory of the Slovakian career came after dominating the sprints at the end of stages 2 and 5.

This time, Sagan faced a squad of high-level sprinters who had been greatly impoverished by the mountains. Fernando Gaviria and Dylan Groenewegen, both winners of this Tour, as well as André Greipel, all dropped out of the race on Thursday, while the 30-stage winners Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel missed Wednesday's time. The Alpe d'Huez striker on Thursday was forced to abandon the race after breaking a vertebrae when he was knocked over by a police motorcycle charged with hold the fans who pressed him.

Froome was also pushed to the back by pectator, and Thomas was booed on the podium by fans who are skeptical about Froome's authorization of the doping allegation just before the start of the BMC Tour

Michael Schaer was the last runner of a four-stage break

The 14th stage of Saturday is a 188-kilometer hilly hike between Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Mende as the race heads for the Pyrenees

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Andrew Dampf Ciaran Fahey contributed

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