Echelons briefly spice up the Tour de France
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Thursday’s run from Mâcon to Dijon was a flat one, perfect for the sprinters to fight again, although another scenario was likely, due to the presence of some strong winds in the second part of the stage. For that reason, there weren’t too many breakaway attempts, the one or two attacks that came early being easily nullified by the peloton.
Around 80 kilometers from the finish, the peloton split as soon as the wind picked up, leaving only 60 riders in the main group. Remco Evenepoel was there, surrounded by Soudal Quick-Step teammates Yves Lampaert and Gianni Moscon, who kept him well-placed on the exposed roads of Burgundy. The gap between the group quickly went up to twenty seconds, but the chasers managed to make it back once the riders made right and the wind changed direction.
The peloton was expecting more crosswinds in the final 40 kilometers, but this threat failed to materialise and they continued as one until Dijon, where the Tour de France returned after 27 years. Unlike 1997 when the breakaway prevailed, this time the victor emerged after another mass gallop, won by Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-AlUla). The Soudal Quick-Step boys all came home together, and Remco made a visit to the podium to take his fifth white jersey, a first for a Belgian rider at a single edition of the Tour de France in the last 31 years.
Photo credit: ©Tim De Waele / Getty Images
Race details
1 |
Dylan Groenewegen Team Jayco AlUla |
3:31:55 |
2 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty |
0:00 |
3 |
Fernando Gaviria Rendon Movistar Team |
0:00 |
4 |
Phil Bauhaus Bahrain - Victorious |
0:00 |
5 |
Arnaud De Lie Lotto Dstny |
0:00 |
6 |
Wout van Aert Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:00 |
7 |
Arnaud Démare |
0:00 |
8 |
Alexander Kristoff Uno-X Mobility |
0:00 |
9 |
Pascal Ackermann Israel - Premier Tech |
0:00 |
10 |
Piet Allegaert Cofidis |
0:00 |
32 |
Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
45 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
47 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
51 |
Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
68 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:00 |
128 |
Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:40 |
172 |
Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step |
3:18 |
1 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates |
26:47:19 |
2 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
0:45 |
3 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
0:50 |
4 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
1:10 |
5 |
Primož Roglič Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe |
1:14 |
6 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
1:16 |
7 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:32 |
8 |
João Almeida UAE Team Emirates |
1:32 |
9 |
Giulio Ciccone Lidl - Trek |
3:20 |
10 |
Egan Bernal Gómez INEOS Grenadiers |
3:21 |
25 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
5:41 |
49 |
Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step |
27:12 |
80 |
Gianni Moscon
Soudal Quick-Step |
50:14 |
99 |
Jan Hirt
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:01:21 |
141 |
Yves Lampaert
Soudal Quick-Step |
1:19:53 |
1 |
Biniam Girmay Hailu Intermarché - Wanty |
149 pt |
2 |
Mads Pedersen Lidl - Trek |
111 pt |
3 |
Jonas Abrahamsen Uno-X Mobility |
87 pt |
4 |
Jasper Philipsen Alpecin - Deceuninck |
85 pt |
5 |
Bryan Coquard Cofidis |
75 pt |
6 |
Fernando Gaviria Rendon Movistar Team |
73 pt |
7 |
Dylan Groenewegen Team Jayco AlUla |
71 pt |
8 |
Arnaud De Lie Lotto Dstny |
64 pt |
9 |
Arnaud Démare |
63 pt |
10 |
Kévin Vauquelin |
60 pt |
16 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
33 pt |
48 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
9 pt |
54 |
Louis Vervaeke
Soudal Quick-Step |
8 pt |
72 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
4 pt |
1 |
Jonas Abrahamsen Uno-X Mobility |
26 pt |
2 |
Tadej Pogačar UAE Team Emirates |
20 pt |
3 |
Valentin Madouas Groupama - FDJ |
16 pt |
4 |
Jonas Vingegaard Hansen Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
15 pt |
5 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
12 pt |
6 |
Stephen Williams Israel - Premier Tech |
10 pt |
7 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
10 pt |
8 |
Frank van den Broek Team dsm-firmenich PostNL |
9 pt |
9 |
Ion Izagirre Insausti Cofidis |
8 pt |
10 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
8 pt |
13 |
Mikel Landa Meana
Soudal Quick-Step |
4 pt |
1 |
Remco Evenepoel
Soudal Quick-Step |
26:48:04 |
2 |
Juan Ayuso Pesquera UAE Team Emirates |
0:25 |
3 |
Carlos Rodríguez Cano INEOS Grenadiers |
0:31 |
4 |
Matteo Jorgenson Team Visma | Lease a Bike |
2:36 |
5 |
Santiago Buitrago Sánchez Bahrain - Victorious |
3:25 |
6 |
Ilan Van Wilder
Soudal Quick-Step |
4:56 |
7 |
Ben Healy EF Education - EasyPost |
7:27 |
8 |
Javier Romo Movistar Team |
9:04 |
9 |
Thomas Pidcock INEOS Grenadiers |
13:36 |
10 |
Oscar Onley Team dsm-firmenich PostNL |
15:59 |
1 | UAE Team Emirates | 80:25:01 |
2 | INEOS Grenadiers | 4:54 |
3 | Soudal Quick-Step | 5:02 |
4 | Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe | 6:34 |
5 | Bahrain - Victorious | 11:27 |
6 | Movistar Team | 13:24 |
7 | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 17:39 |
8 | EF Education - EasyPost | 24:06 |
9 | Lidl - Trek | 28:41 |
10 | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | 34:33 |