Peter Sagan’s prefix in the Stair 11 of the Tour de France, finishing last from the runner-up spot in the sprint, has suddenly become very likely to retain the green jersey for the record for the eighth time. Difficult.
For a short moment, when Sagan threw his bike ahead of rival Sam Bennett on the line, he was back on his hind legs; In the classification he would have closed the Irishmen just five points apart and, decisively, had a confidence-boosting victory over him.
But then the race jury reviewed the footage and found Sagan unfit. The 30 points he thought he would win (10 more than Bennett in the third start) evaporated, as well as the 13 points he would have won earlier in the intermediate sprint (UCI rules stipulate that the player lost 25 percent of the maximum points. To win the stage – Which was 12.5 points out of 50, up to 13).
Bennett started the day with a 21-point lead, and added 17 more in the final sprint, as well as 30 more in the final. Sagan is stuck at 175 points while Bennett is ahead at 243.
Before the start of the tour, you’ll struggle to find anyone who would be betting against winning teak green in Paris for the eighth time this year. This is the pride of a three-time former world champion who was once considered a ‘sprinters jersey’, you often get the impression that other riders are not doing so much to challenge him, it has become such a situation. The inevitability that he will win.
Caleb Evan, who finished the teak runner in green last year, explained before this year’s tour that “the way the points work is not a good competition for pure runners. We haven’t won pure runners for years.”
Bennett started the tour in the same way on his chances of going green, this year his priority is to be the winner in the first round. But in the fifth round, he stole the jersey from the three-time former world champion to win the intermediate sprint and finish ahead of Sagan in the final. Teak clearly had no choice but to leave him without a fight, taking him back to Stage 7 in a frenzy two days later, throwing Bennett on the mountain and on the stage towards Laver in the wind punishing.
But when Bora did the decisive job of giving Bennett the distance they wanted as soon as possible, Sagan couldn’t make much money on it after his chances for the Stegan win were broken by the mechanics, where the bounty of points was on offer. Bennett should have been put to the sword – instead, he was able to take back the greenery when he won the 10th stage.
Phase 11 of the 2020 tour was only the 30th day out of 163 tour phases in the last nine years, that Teak did not wear a green jersey.
However, the teak of the year 2020 is not what we have been used to seeing for years. He last won the race on stage 5 of last year’s Tour 5 (although the COVID-19 epidemic has played a clear role in it). But still, it was just one of four wins in 2019 – 50 percent lower than the previous year. The impression he has made in recent years is that he is a person who feels indifference to the circus that follows him.
Tug has won the greenery in every edition through the midpoint point (after stage 10), it has a significant tal height of 175 points compared to 175 this year. In 2012, when he won the green for the first time, he scored 232 points, 269 in 2013, 287 in 2014, 222 in 2015 (once he finished second at this stage of the race – then three points down) Grippel), 2016 242, which is 319 in 2018 and 229 last year.
In fact, Sagan now has no run behind the second morning from a distance as big as Bennett’s ar 68 points.
Despite today’s final sprint, Bennett is clearly the fastest of the two. Sagan is not and never has been a sprinter in the same mold as Bennett, Evan, Marcel Kittel or Grippelle. The advantage of teak in winning green is its ability to always climb, and the fact that it can get off the road on hilly or mountainous days, and run intermediate sprints that do not follow its competitors.
But just as the 2020 teak is not necessarily the same as before, so is the 2020 tour. For the remaining stages of the race, sprint prizes arrive much earlier in the day, and are much lower on the hill than in previous years. Intermediate sprints after less than 60km of racing have been featured in six of the next eight stages, compared to just one in the comparable stage last year.
Four of those phases also feature graded chil- dren on profiles before sprint (phases 12, 15, 17 and 18) – although they are completely flat and without graded mountains that can challenge sprinklers. But before Intermediate Sprint this year only 13 Phases showed any ripples over Class 3 – while in 2019 Phases did so in the second half of the tour. There is no such thing as an ambush.
Bennett has proven many times that he generally favors the sign-to-head teak, meaning he is now a desunink-quick step rider who chooses to take the greenery in Paris. Peter Sag did not win the green at the end of the tour at the same time he was disqualified from the race in 2017. It seemed that the green would always be there until the teak started the tour. Bennett now has as many good shots as he had before, and perhaps by replacing him. Only 10 stages stand in its way.
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