Miguel Ángel López wins in Méribel and gets on the podium



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Tour de France: Miguel Ángel López wins in Méribel and gets on the podium

EsCiclismo.com · Road Competition · 09/16/2020

The Colombian cyclist Miguel Ángel `Superman´ López (Astana) has won the seventeenth day of the 107th edition of the Tour de France, considered the queen stage, a day of high mountains and 170 kilometers starting in Grenoble and finishing in the Col de la Loze, in the Méribel ski resort.

With a time of 4 hours, 49 minutes and 8 seconds, López won the Col de la Loze, a special category, ahead of the Slovenians Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) , second and third respectively.

After being part of the day’s escape, the French Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadier) and the Spanish Gorka Izagirre (Astana) began the final ascent with 1 minute and 50 seconds of income on the head of the peloton, which was pulled almost from the start of the stage by Mikel Landa’s Bahrain-McLaren team.

The trio was seeing their income reduced until the leading group ended with the options of Carapaz, the last representative of the escape, 2.8 kilometers from the end.

The Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), who donned the yellow jersey after finishing second in the ninth stage, remained one more day at the head of the individual general classification of the French round.

He Tour de France It will continue this Thursday with the dispute of its eighteenth stage, another tough mountain day with 175 kilometers and five mountain heights that will start in Méribel and end in La Roche-sur-Foron.

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Classifications [Clasificaciones completas]

Stage classification:
1. Miguel Ángel López (COL / Astana) – 4: 49: 8
2. Primoz Roglic (SLO / Jumbo-Visma) at 0:15
3. Tadej Pogacar (SLO / UAE Emirates) at 0:30
4. Sepp Kuss (United States / Jumbo-Visma) at 0:56
5. Richie Porte (AUS / Trek-Segafredo) at 1:01
6. ENRIC MAS (ESP / MOVISTAR) at 1:12
7. MIKEL LANDA (ESP / Bahrain-McLaren) at 1:20
8. Adam Yates (GBR / Mitchelton-Scott) at 1:20
9. Rigoberto Urán (COL / Education First) at 1:59
10. Tom Dumoulin (NED / Jumbo-Visma) at 2:13

General ranking:
1. Primoz Roglic (SLO / Jumbo-Visma) – 75:56:04
2. Tadej Pogacar (SLO / UAE Emirates) at 0:57
3. Miguel Ángel López (COL / Astana) at 1:26
4. Richie Porte (AUS / Trek-Segafredo) at 3:05
5. Adam Yates (GBR / Mitchelton-Scott) at 3:14
6. Rigoberto Urán (COL / Education First) at 3:24
7. MIKEL LANDA (ESP / Bahrain-McLaren) at 3:27
8. ENRIC MAS (ESP / MOVISTAR) at 4:18
9. Tom Dumoulin (NED / Jumbo-Visma) at 7:23 am
10. ALEJANDRO VALVERDE (ESP / MOVISTAR) at 9:31 am

Next stage, 18th: Méribel – La Roche-sur-Foron / 175 Km.
Tour de France - Stage 18

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