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(procycling.no): After the stage of Wednesday, Team Sky saw total control of the Tour de France this year, but the British team made a real challenge to the twelfth stage with a final touch at the top of the Alpe d & # 39; Huez
Together, Steven Kruijswijk (Team LottoNL-Jumbo), split the first of four hikes today. In the third end, with more than 70 kilometers to go, he went solo and crossed the summit of the Col de la Croix de Fer with six minutes behind the rest of the favorites.
The Dutch lost time in the last four kilometers in Alpe d'Huez. It was long enough to be enough, but in the second half the seconds disappeared quickly and three and a half miles to the left it was recovered by Chris Froome.
In the end, there was a collection among the favorites and in the spur Geraint Thomas was completely superior and gained two seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin and three seconds ahead of Romain Bardet. He therefore took his second stage win in the race – for the occasion in yellow shirt.
Thomas still leads together
Kruijswijk was also the virtual leader of the race after only two minutes and 40 seconds behind leader Geraint. Thomas before the scene
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Alpe d'Huez held Egan Bernal high enough for his teammates Thomas and Chris Froome to keep the control of Team Sky. 19659002] The young Colombian driver was impressive and kept so fast that only Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb), Mikel Landa (Movistar), Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain Merida), Primoz Roglic (Team LottoNL-Jumbo) and Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale )
Bernal still traveled five kilometers and Froome was attacked a kilometer later. Unfortunately, Vincenzo Nibali also went through a party where the crowd had extinguished the fire.
Bardet, Dumoulin, Landa, Froome and Thomas gathered in the last kilometers and everything became a fate settlement between the five on the few slower roads to the summit where Thomas was clearly the best.
The Walker now passes 1 to 39 Chris Froome and 1 to 50 to Tom Dumoulin
Results at the bottom of the case
The Dutch Mountain
Eight First 14 times, the legendary Alpe d 'Huez won the Dutch victory. The mountain with the 21 hairpin wings has therefore become very important in the history of Dutch cycling, and the Dutchman has his own swing (swing seven) in the mountain where he is still a part.
It was also this year, even though he had finished 15 times at the top of Alpe d'Huez since the last victory of the Netherlands during Gert-Jan's victory. Theunisse in 1989.
This is also a good sign for the Dutch that Steven Kruijswijk arrived first of the Iron Cross Pass – something that he loved about others. Dutch in history. The first? Gert-Jan Theunisse in 1989, en route to an imposing solo player until Alpe d'Huez
This time, however, it was not the case of Tom Dumoulin in as the best Dutchman in second place.
Team Sky dominated Wednesday's stage, but they were put under pressure on Thursday's crisp leg.
175.5 kilometers, going up the Col de la Madeleine (25.3 kilometers up to 6, 2%), the Lacs de Montevernier (3.4 km to 8.2%) and the Pass of the Iron Cross (29 km at 5.2%) before the end of the mythical Alpe d 'Huez (13.8 km to 8 km). 1%).
Already at the Col de la Madeleine came attacks against Team Sky. A large breakaway of 26 riders has occurred, including Alejandro Valverde (Movistar), Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step), Warren Barguil (Fortuneo-Samsic) and most importantly – Steven Kruijswijk (Team LottoNL-Jumbo).
Kruijswijk was in front of the stage up to sixth overall, only 2.40 behind. Robert Gesink (Team LottoNL-Jumbo) and Andrey Amador (Movistar) left for Kruijwsjijk and Valverde, and Kruijswijk even attacked half-way.
No one was able to keep up. he was six minutes above the field, with several other broken riders between Kruijswijk and the peloton.
He also held the bottom of the track, and with a tailwind in the valley towards the start of Alpe d'Huez, Kruijswijk remained relatively far away. In the ground, the management was down for four minutes, but Luka was eaten in the steep climb
Manfall among the Spurs
After Dylan Groenewegen, Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel have just reached the time limit of Kittel and Cavendish on Wednesday's leg after getting far behind the time limit.
The abandonment of the fastest field continued on Thursday's stage. Groenewegen, André Greipel and Fernando Gaviria separated on a half-step far behind them
. This increases the chances of the Norwegian team, Alexander Kristoff and Edvald Boasson Hagen, significantly ahead of the last three points. Gaviria and Groenewegen have watched up here in the race as the best questions, with lights of two stages each.
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