Tour de France: No one can sprint with Philipsen

A city left over from the victory of Pello Bilbao. The Bahrain bus is the first to arrive and one of the second buses for Xavi Florencio, the team’s Catalan director of a social group. cigarillo, but also the winner of the San Sebastián Clásica, remember the moments of victory and nerves of your driver. the same XaviDays before the start of the round, it was Bilbao’s first unsuccessful attempts to seek victory, accompanying them in training for Jaizkibel’s relegation.

It is not easy to win stages and little in the tour. Bahrain is “the team’s official language,” says an English-speaking team. Xavi, although he does it in Catalan and an intense “let’s go!” from his car. He’s the one who broke the English norm when he shouted. with Coat After raising his arms in Issoire.

A sprint in sight

knows CoatEveryone knows there will be a sprint on the Moulins road where only a few heights are visible at the start of the workday. Florence there’s no doubt about the result, on the way back to the bus, almost in the blink of an eye, when the start begins, the Tour disappears from the center of Clermont-Ferrand, the shops and streets open, and the city returns to normal.

Adjacent to the bus parking is the UAE entourage, Tadej Pogacar’s team full of Spaniards, and although they also speak English, the whole of the United Arab Emirates looks almost like the city of Miami with Spanish on the surface. And next to it are those of Movistar, left without a guide after the fall of Enric Mas, and unlucky and stuck waiting for their near-dealing stage victory at the hands of Matteo at Puy de Dôme. Jorgenson.

There are not many options for the development of a successful split, only the spoiled can leak, which was called jerry decades ago, and the sprint, which everyone announced only at the Clermont-Ferrand start, is the only possible solution after almost 180 kilometers. effort

When there is a sprinter who is crushing other sprinters with his power, there is no choice but to arrive at the finish line in Moulins depressed, where those in the general standings must pedal carefully as the corners are followed downhill. double risk of falling or being off the hook Jasper Phillipsen He achieved the fourth victory in the sprint, absolute superiority over all his opponents. Five sprints were held in this Round, won four sprints and didn’t reach the repoker because Mathieu van der Poel He wanted to fight for victory in Limoges, as his grandfather Raymond Poulidor’s town was next to him, and wanted to honor him almost at the doorstep of his home.

Vingegaard’s Wrath

The declared danger of the arrival may excite one to try and take a few seconds off from those who are most cautious, those who press the brakes for fear of falling. Jonas Vingegaard, always yellow, sees sprinters running a few yards, a cut in the safety zone. Squeeze to see what happens. However pogakar he runs with a fly behind his ear and gets caught like a mussel on the rear wheel of the Danish cyclist’s bike.

There is an indisputable court for judges and everyone. The group of sprinters gets a seven-second advantage over the others. take revenge fighting without risking his mustache to catch them. pogakar next to him and the rest, those running in another league, do it at a distance. Hoping for victory, the two get together, but give their followers an extra two seconds to fight for the photo with the couple at the Paris lodge. Jai Hindley (third), Carlos Rodriguez (fourth) and Bilbao installed in the fifth row. “If it’s there, it’s because it’s strong and we won’t surrender,” he says. Florence With the optimism that Issoire’s immense joy is still smeared with.