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188 kilometers were to travel cyclists on the road to the 14th stage of the Tour de France, leading from Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateau to Mende. Starting with the scratches, only on the 81st kilometer was located the first of the four gram bonuses, but its driving conditions are imposed much by the side wind, which quickly divides the peloton into several smaller groups. Back in the last of four groups, among others, Mikel Landa (Movistar) took 6th place overall. Bob Jungels (Quick-Step), Dan Martin (Emirates United Arab Emirates) and Primo Rogli (Lotto NL Jumbo) were not caught in the body, Valverde (Movistar) and Bardet (AG2R) remained in the second group, created from a platoon divided by the wind. In the lead, among others, Team Sky cyclists raced with leader Geraint Thomas and second in the Christopher Froome rankings. After a dozen kilometers, the pace begins to recover, the peloton resumes, and in the lead there are two groups: 7 people, led by Julian Alaphilippe (Quick-Step) and 25 people, Maciej Bodnar and Peter Sagan (BORA- hansgrohe) in the warehouse. After a few moments, the two will fight and the escape of 32 men starts to build their advantage on the squad, which finds that there is no forward cyclist who will introduce confusion into the overall standings, decide to escape and release
Gorky and the fight points fought for their next winnings. Alaphilippe will add another point on the first Polish bonus (Cote du Grand Chataignier, 4th category), and a few kilometers away, Peter Sagan will probably sign 20 points on the final finish. On the ascent of the Col de la Croix Berthel, where was the second best Polish bonus (2nd category), attacked Gorka Izagirre (Barhain-Merida), who will be the first to reach the top of the hill. 20 seconds after it would be Tom-Jelte Slagter (Dimension Data), and after them a group, led by Alaphilippus, chasing the following points of the polka dot shirt. On the way to Izagirre, Slagter and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) are en route. For a dozen kilometers, this trio is a few tens of seconds away from the rest of the escape (the group is going to share in the meantime, among others, Maciej Bodnar). A little more than 30 kilometers before the finish line in the breakaway, Izagirre in an inexorable way to "encourage" Slagter to get involved in the job, Jasper Stuyven will go from the front, who decides to put everything on a map and make a lone attack.
Constantly building his advantage, he reaches the bottom of the last climb with more of a pontaminutow lead. Alone, he began climbing a short but steep road leading to Mende airport. Only 3 kilometers, but 10.2% of the average slope, however, the day fled Belgian travelers for nearly an hour. As soon as the group pursues him, the Spanish Omar Fraile (Astana) will start attacking, reducing the distance to Stuyven. Moments later, Alaphilippe will begin to attack. A few hundred meters from the summit, stay with Stuyven, when it is Fraile. Alaphilippus got it a few seconds later. During the 1.5 kilometer trip from the summit to the meeting, they managed to take a bit of distance from the summit to the Spanish's victory, but they were not able to threaten him with in any way. Fraile will win the stage, second Alaphilippe, third Stuyven, rewarded for the most fierce cyclist of the stage
On the second day of the match, where we expected to play precious seconds in the overall standings, the future fans will wait Nearly 20 minutes – this is so that the front has finally worked at the finish line. Alley in Mende began with Pierre-Roger Latour (AG2R), working for the benefit of Bardet, and the Sky team behind him, led by Micha Kwiatkowski. For moments of souls, no one decides to attack, in the cover he will leap Landa, but he is not allowed to leave even for a few meters. Meanwhile, the Lotto NL Jumbo team is approaching, which brings Primo Roglia to attack. In the end, Soweniec will go from the front, but Ewana Bernal Team Sky is still at the controls, a dozen meters behind Rogel. At the top, Primo Rogli was the first to arrive, followed by Thomas, Froome and Dumoulin (Sunweb), and only a few meters behind them Nairo Quintana (Movistar) and Romain Bardet (AG2R). And in a similar group, the leader group reached the finish line
So this was a step not particularly loaded with interesting events on the road, but offsetting this monotonous passion for a cover. Sunday, at the end of the second week of draw, which is a different soup: milestone of 181,5 kilometers from Millau to Carcassonne, three difficult but not very expensive bonuses on the way, but the last one (Pic de Noire, 1st category , 12.3 km, 6.3%) more than a 40 km long exit until the finish line. Will it be again a tireless arena Peter Sagan (today, despite the difficult last climb to 4, finishing a few seconds after Alaphilippe and Stuyven), or perhaps in the cover that will pass his Hegemoni on the finishes of the strip – we will see Sunday between 17:30 to 18:00. The start of the stage at 13:20
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