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Tour: Philipsen wins the 15th stage, Vingegaard remains in yellow

2022-07-17T18:45:46.876Z


The Belgian of the Alpecin precedes the sprint Van Aert and Pedersen (ANSA) Excellent retreats and suffocating heat. These were the characteristics of the 15th stage of the Tour that brought the caravan to Carcassonne, where Jonas Vingegaard kept the yellow jersey at the end of the general sprint. But for the Dane it was not a positive day, because he lost important pieces of his team, the Jumbo Visma, since before the start Primoz Roglic made it known that he was retirin


Excellent retreats and suffocating heat.

These were the characteristics of the 15th stage of the Tour that brought the caravan to Carcassonne, where Jonas Vingegaard kept the yellow jersey at the end of the general sprint.

But for the Dane it was not a positive day, because he lost important pieces of his team, the Jumbo Visma, since before the start Primoz Roglic made it known that he was retiring, due to shoulder and back problems, while in the stage in progress Steven Kruijswijk, 13 / o in the standings to date, was left on the ground after a bad fall and was then taken away in an ambulance.

For him there is talk of a fractured collarbone, but this first diagnosis has not yet received official confirmation.

Vingegaard himself fell, together with another teammate, the Belgian Tiesj Benoot,

but after an understandable moment of bewilderment he got back on the saddle and started pedaling again, returning to the group.

All this in a scenario dominated by the asphyxiating heat, which led the organizers to activate the safety protocol for the runners provided for in such cases.

Thus, the use of tankers was prepared to frequently water the asphalt and, for cyclists, there was the green light to use jackets with ice and 'cooling' socks.

In the end it seemed that home runner Benjamin Thomas, a 4 world title pistard and Olympic bronze medalist in Tokyo, who occasionally tries his hand on the road, seemed to have made it, to the delight of the French, but was caught only a few hundreds of meters from the finish, from the group that came from behind to launch the sprint of the sprinters.

Among them, the Belgian Jasper Philipsen, the Alpecin rider who at the end of the fourth stage, arriving in Calais, had rejoiced for a long time convinced that he had won, taking his first victory in the Tour.

Shortly after the prank, when he was warned that, earlier, Wout Van Aert had crossed the finish line before him.

And today Philipsen took his revenge, because he beat Van Aert in the sprint, in the green jersey, while third and in contention until the last was the former world champion Mads Pedersen.

Behind which the revived Peter Sagan was revived, for whom fourth place could be the signal of a recovery.

Among the top ten also two Italian names, with Luca Mozzato eighth ahead of Andrea Pasqualon.

Crumbs,

but in this moment the Italic pedal has to be satisfied with what it finds along the way.

It's not much, but on the Tour, even today struggling with Covid (two stage winners, Cort Nielsen and Clarke have withdrawn due to the virus), the great protagonists are others.

Source: ansa

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