Echelons briefly spice up the Tour de France

Echelons briefly spice up the Tour de France

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

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