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"It's one of the most difficult stages I've had in the Tour de France," says Peter Sagan on his own website. "For me, it was important to survive these three huge mountain walks and I'm glad it worked."
Wednesday, Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish have already had to leave the Tour because they arrived too late in the second Dylan Groenewegen, Fernando Gaviria and André Greipel, among others, impose at the end of the day.
Groenewegen, who won the seventh and eighth stages, had to move quickly to the twelfth stage. Shortly after, the German Greipel (Lotto Soudal) and the Colombian Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors), winner of the first stage, gave up
"The last three days have not been easy and too heavy for me, "concludes Greipel, who had to leave for the first time in eight participations in the Tour
" I quickly realized that it would be the end of my Tour, while others might choose to hang on to the team car, but if I do not do it my own strength can reach the finish, I prefer to go home. "
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Tim Declercq , Gaviria's teammate at Quick-Step Floors, criticizes the organization of the ASO Tour Now that most of the best sprinters no longer participate, the last flat stages according to the Belgians are less respected
"Do you want a sprint on the Champs-Élysées without sprinters? You must be a very good climber in such a race. Declercq on Twitter
At Daryl Impey, there was mostly relief. The South African sprinter, like Sagan, John Degenkolb, Arnaud Démare and Alexander Kristoff, reached the finish line on Alpe d 'Huez in time to continue his Tour.
"I had to go very far in the twelfth stage," writes Impey on Twitter. "It was one of the most difficult stages of this tour."
Sprinters receive a direct salary to work on Friday, as chances are good that the thirteenth stage of the Tour ends with a massive sprint. The riders leave at 1:45 pm from Bourg d'Oisans and arrive 169,5 km later to Valencia.
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