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He Tour de France resumed the route after the dreaded day of rest with all but one: its director. Rest Monday had become the most tense day of our career due to the uncertainty created by the results of PCR tests. Two positives in the same team, regardless of whether it was from a runner or an assistant, supposed lexpulsion from the race. An invisible threat. Four squads touched the tragedy with a case in their midst, none of them cyclists: Ineos, Mitchelton, Cofidis and Ag2r. He was shocked. More than one sighed. Everyone to the stage … All but one: Christian Prudhomme, the head of the Tour. His position obliges him to numerous social relationships, without going any further with the French Prime Minister, Jean Castex, which followed the Pyrenean stage on Saturday. With or without its director, the Tour will arrive in Paris.
Thus, with Prudhomme out of the car and quarantined behind the television, the entire platoon set out in the very flat stage of this Tuesday, which featured other dangers above the pandemic: wind and falls. Accidents, unavoidable, spread during the 169-kilometer journey, without respecting gallons. Just like a virus. Bewley, who was forced to leave, Roche, Pinot, Poels, Sivakov, Van Baarle, Reichenbach, Skujins, Barguil, Dayer …
65 kilometers from the finish line, in a curve to the left, Tadej Pogacar and Guillaume Martin, two roosters of the general, rolled on the ground in a pile that affected the head of the race, where the capos circulated with stiff ears. There was no fury from the squad, which allowed the two to be linked. Could not say the same Davide formolo, who arrived for more than a quarter of an hour, with worrying injuries, a clavicle fracture that will force him to retire. A notable decline in the UAE to support Pogacar in the mountain, although the Slovenian has shown that he does quite well only on the peaks ..
Untitled Sam Bennett celebrates his victory on the tenth stage of the Tour, the first he has conquered in this great.
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The tension was not going to end there, far from it. The wind was always lurking in this maritime zone, between the Île d’Oléron and the Île de Re. Less than 20 kilometers away, the most dangerous situation, the most uncertain, was experienced. Fans, fallen again … Carapaz, Superman López, Valverde and Alaphilippe were cut off. There was no viciousness this time either, although the net had caught big game game again. The platoon, after the relief of the coronavirus, continued in a solidary attitude. No victims, only those forced by injuries. Those who had to enter the front did so. With a tiring load of stress, yes.
The squad advanced in this manner toward an announced sprint. Sam Bennett won this time the game over Caleb Ewan in packaging, with which it managed to make its debut in the Tour list and, at the same time, became part of the select group of cyclists who have conquered stages in the big three. Last year he won two goals in the Vuelta, two times ago he dominated three Giro finishes… and he already has the jackpot. Being a sprinter for Deceuninck, the most successful team in the world, forces you to win. The Irishman got rid of that burden. And he got excited in the subsequent interview. A dream come true. Primoz Roglic, well escorted by the Jumbo-Visma, kept the yellow jersey. Against wind and falls.
Provisional stage
| Pos. | Cyclist | Equipment | Weather |
|---|---|---|---|
| one | Sam bennett IRL | DQT | 3h 35:22 |
| two | Caleb Ewan OUTSIDE | LTS | + 00:00 |
| 3 | Peter sagan SVK | BOH | + 00:00 |
| 4 | Elia Viviani ITA | MEMORY | + 00:00 |
| 5 | Mads pedersen HE | TFS | + 00:00 |
| 6 | André Greipel GER | ICA | + 00:00 |
| 7 | Bryan coquard OF | VCB | + 00:00 |
| 8 | Cees Bol NED | SUN | + 00:00 |
| 9 | Jasper stuffyven BEL | TFS | + 00:00 |
| 10 | Luka mezgec SLO | MTS | + 00:00 |
| sixteen | Jose Joaquin Rojas ESP | MOV | + 00:00 |
| 32 | Primoz Roglic SLO | TJV | + 00:00 |
| 39 | Egan bernal COLUMN | OTHER | + 00:00 |
| 134 | Benoit Cosnefroy OF | ALM | + 05:25 |
See the full classification
