2023-07-20 18:18:17
It’s a mini event on the roads of the Tour de France. On a flat stage, as conducive to a good nap as to a sprint finish, the breakaway triumphed Thursday over the teams determined to finish this 18th stage together between Moûtiers and Bourg-en-Bresse. And it was one of those who had taken the tangent from the start, the Dane Kasper Asgreen (Soudal – Quick Step), who won a few meters in front of a peloton who had returned too late;
A victory acquired at the end of a long calm stage, the day after the almost inhuman slopes of the Col de la Loze, the scene of the last stage in the Alps. The riders needed to breathe on leaving Moûtiers, even if Simon Geschke (Cofidis) did not manage to go to the end of the day, but the formations of sprinters have long never let the breakaway slip away too much: a group of three made up of Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X), the winner of the Tour of Flanders 2021 Kasper Asgreen, orphan of his sprinter Fabio Jakobsen, and Victor Campenaerts (Lotto-Dst ny).
A peloton too fair in the last kilometers
A trio transformed into a quartet 63 km from the finish when Pascal Eenkhoorn, yet under pressure from his compatriot and green jersey Jasper Philipsen, went up front to help his teammate, Victor Campenaerts. A welcome reinforcement for the leading group, which managed to double its lead in stride to exceed the minute. And despite the efforts of the Alpecin-Deceuninck of Philipsen, to take Asgreen to victory.
On Friday, the Tour de France will be on the roads of the Jura for a 175 km stage between Moirans-en-Montagne and Poligny. If the Côte d’Ivory, classified in the third category at thirty kilometers from the finish, seems favorable to adventurers to try a shot, the very long straight line of eight kilometers which leads to the finish will play in favor of the formations of sprinters. But Thursday’s stage will perhaps give ideas to the daring.
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