Sweater wins another midfielder and will keep his shirt for at least a few days – Cycling – Sportacentrs.com

On Wednesday, Skujins was on the road to historic success by collecting mountain points in the middle and earning a red polka dot shirt that is the leader of the King of the Hill. Thursday, on the sixth stage, there were still several climbs, but the next three stages landed in the plain, sharing only a few points for these athletes.

Thursday, a milestone of 181 kilometers was completed, Skujins won the third event 15 km before the finish. Earlier in the preliminary round, several points of the mountain on points were New Zealander Dionys Smith ("Wanty-Group Gobert"), reaching the Latvian overall.

Currently, Skujin holds two points over Smith and Silvana Šavanelu of France. On Friday, only one mountain test point will be played, but on Saturday the second, then Smit and Shawanel will have the theoretical perspective of reaching the team. However, most likely, the Latvian jacket will only lose on the following Tuesday, when the hardest part of the bike starts with the mountain stages.

The fourth round included a third and a fourth category. At the beginning of the distance, there was a big breakdown of five cyclists, in which Skujiņš did not engage. Among his refugees, there was his former teammate Hincapie's team, Smith, who fought for the mountains in the middle of the field, thereby compromising Skujin's position in this badessment. After 80 kilometers, the skeleton leader exceeded six and a half minutes

At this point, the runners had to cope with a strong side wind, which was the main factor contributing to skeleton division. The men of "Quick – Step Floors" did a great job, whose active pace also largely divided the group. The Trek-Segafredo team leader, Bauke Mollema, was on the first track, while he was one of the main favorites of second place Nairobi Quintana. Later, the group again crashed. When there remained 50 kilometers to the finish, the dominance of the leader on the group was reduced to two minutes. In the race to finish, Bora-Hansgrohe was active at the front of the race. Taking into account that the final part should take a sufficiently strong climb, after which the big group did not finish the surges, the German team led the politician Rafal Majk, not the winner of the group. previous step, Peter Sagan. a slight breakthrough from tin and won a breakthrough. Moments later, Tom was captured by Jack Bauer, a Mitchelton-Scott Australian cyclist. Our cyclist did not try to keep control with the Australian and came back to the group. Bauer had been leading for a long time, but four kilometers before the finish. Meanwhile, at the wrong time, a technical failure hit one of Tom Dumluen's favorites, who lost valuable time.

Everything differed in the height of the arrival. An excellent solo breakthrough was made by Denjell Martyn, emirate of the United Arab Emirates, who managed to keep the lead and earn the title. The 31-year-old cyclist traveled four hours to 13 minutes and 41 seconds on the track. AG2R La Mondiale took second place at Pierre Latour, but the trio was found with the legendary teammate of Movistar Alehandro Valverde

Mollema, who won seventh, lost three seconds of time. Trek-Segafredo team. In turn, Skujins scored 96th, 4 minutes and 34 seconds behind the winner.

BMC team leader Greg van Avermouth retains control, while Brits Gerente Thomas (Sky), who loses three seconds and five

Skujins loses 21 minutes and 5 seconds, taking 115th place at General clbadification.

On the bike, the real hills will start from the tenth stage of the race. This year's
Tour de France cycling race will only be held in France and will end on July 29 in the Champs-Elysées campaign in Paris. In total, the tour includes 21 stages, six of which will be mountain ranges, eight sprint stages, one for individual trips and team. The rest of the stages will be the hangover, which can be as a group finisher, and the winner is cleared of a breakthrough. The total distance that will be shot by the athletes at the Tour de France this year will be 3229 kilometers.

Results from Stage 6 of the Tour de France:

General Note

Test of Mont des Monts

There is a strong grip on it: @Tomashuuns remains the best climber! ?⚪
He clings to his polka-dot jersey with an iron determination: @Tomashuuns is still the best climber of this 1945 Tour @CarrefourFrance # TDF2018 [19659155] pic. twitter.com/gQ063Vr62Y – The Tour de France (@LeTour) July 12, 2018