Tour de France, vince Van Aert. Paseo Bernal, Pogacar at 1’21 “

Wind. From the first kilometer. And the seventh stage of the Tour de France flies it all. First the action of Peter Sagan and his Bora-Hansgrohe, which immediately breaks the group and shoots for more than 100 km with a superlative Daniel Oss. Then, 38 km from the finish, in a left turn in Castres, with the wind once again to one side, it is Alaphilippe who gives the battle signal. With his loyalists, he runs a maximum of 500 meters, he is replaced by the followers of Ineos-Grenadier de Bernal. With the wind from the south of France, with the Pyrenees on the horizon (both stages on Saturday and Sunday), the Tour lives one of the most cruel days. Pogacar ends up in the wind net (he is left alone with the very generous Marco Marcato), Landa, Mollema and Porte, and also loses Carapaz, Bernal’s shoulder. The sprinters arrive exhausted at over 12 ‘. And this was going to be his day in Lavaur.

Publications There are 35 riders ahead: Bernal, Roglic, Adam Yates yellow jersey, Alaphilippe, Pinot, Quintana, Uran, Bardet, G. Martin. 20 km from the end, Pogacar, Landa and Mollema have 56 ”behind the attackers. Later, they turn like trains. 62km / h in crosswind. Uran and his Ef, driven by Alberto Bettiol, also did very well. The advantage grows more and more, inexorable. In the sprint, the second victory for 25-year-old Belgian Wout Van Aert, Roglic’s teammate in the Jumbo-Visma, over Boasson Hagen and Coquard: final average of 47.5 km / h. Very dangerous contact in the sprint launched between Alaphilippe and Stuyven. The British Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) always with the yellow jersey with 3 ”of the Slovenian Primoz Roglic and 9” of the French Guillaume Martin.

Saturday eighth stage, Cazères-sur-Garonne-Loudenvielle, km 141, the first Pyrenean village, with three climbs such as Menté, Balès and especially Peyresourde, one of the giants of the Pyrenees.