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The stage of Alpe d'Huez was as spectacular as expected.
Geraint Thomas increased his leadership at the Tour de France when he won Thursday the mythical stage of Alpe d'Huez. He becomes the first Briton to win.
– Alpe d'Huez, man! I am speechless Thomas told TV 2.
Thomas took his second stage victory right. He was two seconds ahead of Dutchman Tom Dumoulin and three seconds over Frenchman Roman Bardet
– I said yesterday that this ride was created for me, but it's so difficult that you do not know how the body will react. I repeat what I said yesterday that I still ride for Froome, said the walker in yellow.
He increased his overall lead to 1.39 minutes ahead of teammate Chris Froome and 1.50 ahead of Dumoulin. Froome was number four on Thursday, beaten by four seconds.
Alexander Kristoff climbed to second place behind Peter Sagan in the fight for the green pole jersey when more splashes had to break the round
Tour leader, Gerain Thomas, rolled over 5 kilometers after spotting the competition
. About seven miles from the goal of the landslide stage, Steven Kruijswijk abandoned the main pitch – a management that lasted five kilometers.
When he started on the last climb up to Alpe d'Huez, he headed for nearly four and a half minutes on the main pitch with the leader of the Skys team, Geraint Thomas, who challenged Chris Froome
. As if he were to be invincible, said commentator Christian Paasche at age 31 began on the third and final mountain on the hard stage. Nine kilometers from the end, the management was lagging behind in less than three minutes and the seconds followed while Romain Bardet tracked down the leader, but the energy of the Dutch fans contributed to the victory of the Tour de France. Thousands of Dutch encircled the steep slopes
Minutes by Minute: We followed the stage today
Before the riders leave Bourg-Saint-Laurent Maurice to Alpe d'Huez, runner LottoNL-Jumbo was number six – two minutes and 40 seconds behind Team Skys Geraint Thomas in the yellow leader shirt.
Dylan Groenewegen, André Greipel and Rick Zabel and Fernando Gaviria had to qualify for the 12th stage of the Tour de France.
The peaks of the hard mountains are known as a national festival and historically there are good opportunities for the leader after this stage to be the man who remains the winner of the Tour de France.
"The crowd is incredibly close to the riders.What they face there is absolutely crazy, as to the trick.There are not many sports where you can ride the runners, but that may be good and not so good.We have seen many episodes of Alpe d'Huez, says bike expert Mads Kaggestad before the beginning of the year up to ############################################################################ 39 at the Alpe d'Huez shipyards
Drama
Four kilometers higher, Nibali collided with a motorcycle, Thomas was also embarrassed while Froome took the Dutchman at 3, 4 kilometers from the summit It did not appear that Froome had the same speed on the pedals as at his best.
Suddenly, there were five cyclists sitting and looking at one another. Other .It was Froome, Thomas, Bardet, Tom Dumoulin and Spanish Mikel Landa.
– I thought I did not want chances, but I followed Bardet e t Dumoulin, says Thomas
– Incredibly boring with Nibali, he added about the episode where Nibali was hooked.
(Adresseavisen / © NTB)
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