Schultz and Cort, in the sprint, with Luis León Sánchez in the background. /
Magnus Cort wins the stage by being the most skilled in a breakaway where Ion Izagirre was again and Kamna remains eleven seconds from the yellow
Tense stage in Tadej Pogacar’s team, which before the start lost George Bennett to Covid and keeps Rafal Majka in the race despite also testing positive in the internal protocol tests of the Emirati formation, carried out this Tuesday a day later of the Tour’s PCR tests on the rest day, which were all negative. .
The leader of the Tour is left without the New Zealander days after sending Vegard Stake Laengen home and having lost Matteo Trentin before the start, replaced by a Marc Hirschi who is not very good either. Pogacar is left alone with Brandon McNulty and Marc Soler for the mountain stages, awaiting the evolution of a Rafal Majka who, despite testing positive for coronavirus, did take the start because “he is asymptomatic and the PCR revealed that he had little burden. It is a case similar to that of Bob Jungels (Ag2r) at the start of the Tour, ”explained the UAE. The Luxembourger won on Sunday at Chetel.
148,1 KMS
Km. 53. Escape is made
Dylan van Baarle (Ineos), Luis León Sánchez (Bahrain), Philippe Gilbert (Lotto) and Pierre Rolland (B&B) force the breakaway, which ten kilometers later is consolidated with 25 cyclists, including Ion Izagirre (Cofidis).Km. 142. Attack by Luis León Sánchez
Six kilometers from the finish line, the Murcian opened a gap that was close to half a minute, but Schultz, Jorgenson, and Van Baarle caught him within the last kilometer.Km. 147. Regrouping
The leading four keep an eye on each other and other men from the breakaway arrive, including Magnus Cort (EF), who is the one who best measures the distance and beats Schultz (BikeExchange) on the line.Km. 147, 1. Pogacar maintains the yellow. Kamna is 8
43 behind in the general classification and is the virtual leader for many kilometers. At the finish line, Pogacar sprinted again and kept the yellow for eleven seconds.
Luisle, third
The stage was elucidated in a massive breakaway in which the most skillful at the end was Magnus Cort Nielsen (EF), who overtook former Caja Rural rider Nick Schultz (BikeExchange) on the line. Third was Luis León Sánchez (Bahrain), who launched a good attack at the end.
Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) from Ormaiztegire got back into the break, and he gave in twenty kilometers from the finish line, but he is still active in search of the stage victory. For many kilometers Lennard Kamna was the virtual leader. (Borah). If in La Planche he caressed the stage victory, this Tuesday he did not achieve the yellow by eleven seconds.
