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Nils Politt wins the Germany tour

Nils Politt kept it short, he didn’t need many words to formulate his recipe for success. “If your head is free, your legs are free too,” said the 27-year-old professional cyclist from Cologne, after winning the third stage of the Germany tour as a soloist and slipping into the red jersey of the front runner – which he kept on Sunday, at the end of the tour in Nuremberg, when the Norwegian Alexander Kristoff was the fastest of the day.

A special moment for Politt at the home tour, who also said on Sunday: “It was a really difficult race today.” About seven weeks earlier he had already achieved a great coup: He was one with a stage win in the Tour de France All day long on top of the most prestigious spectacle in cycling.

Arms outstretched

With his arms outstretched and a strong blow to the chest, Politt crossed the finish line on Saturday after 193.8 kilometers from Ilmenau to Erlangen – eleven seconds ahead of Belgian Dylan Teuns, with whom he pulled away shortly after the last intermediate sprint of the day and which he was able to shake off a little later. “I hardly looked back. It wasn’t until 500 meters from the finish that I saw that there was still a relatively large gap, and then I saw the pack. But then I already knew that it would be enough, ”said Politt.

It was the basis for his overall victory. As early as 2018 in Stuttgart, Politt was able to win a part of the day of the Germany tour as an outlier. Above all, the fourth of the 2019 tour, Emanuel Buchmann, had created the prerequisites for the Bora-hansgrohe team to have a chance of victory in the final – which Politt then took advantage of while chasing four runaways in the partly pouring rain.

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