In Loudenvielle
Incredulous, he touched his helmet before spreading his arms to face this line which would like a flash to illuminate his first passage on the Tour.
At 26, Nans Peters has shown patience and composure, youthfulness, envy.
He counted with his teammate Benoît Cosnefroy among the escapees of the day.
He knew how to bide his time.
When Cosnefroy got stuck, he launched an attack in the Port of Balès, 40 km from the finish, only Quentin Pacher (B&B Hotels-Vital Concept) and Ilnur Zakarin (CCC Team) managing to follow him.
Two runners that he won, the first quickly in the Port of Balès, the second in the descent.
The Russian has long had the French in his sights, returning for a moment to 9 '' without managing to get his hands on the rider of the AG2R-La Mondiale team.
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"I saw he was going down like a goat"
Nans Peters on Ilnur Zakarin
Peters, winner of a stage of the Tour of Italy last year (in Anterselva-Antholz), after a solitary breakaway of 16 km, which is playing his first Tour de France, played the game perfectly.
With strength and lucidity.
He didn't worry when he saw his lead melt away.
He knew he was a better descender than his rival and was able to force the decision to sign the second French stage victory on this Tour, after Julian Alaphilippe in Nice (2nd stage).
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On arrival, he savored it.
Nature.
At the microphone of France Televisions, he confided: “It's madness.
Last year to win the Tour of Italy.
And there, it's the Tour de France… I told myself why not try to be in a breakaway to try to get the stage victory.
It was a dream, it's crazy… When he came back to 9 ”?
I knew he was stronger than me in the moguls, I didn't give up.
I played with my strengths, I saw that he was going down like a goat, I went ahead, do the descent, don't look back.
At 2 terminals, I told myself that it was done. "
47 seconds ahead of Toms Skujins.
Romain Bardet coming, teeth clenched, complete the great day of the Savoyard team with a 10th place (at 6'38 '').
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