Van Aert's bis in Lavaur, Boasson Hagen and Coquard burned

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04 September 2020He is the fittest man and it shows.

Wout van Aert concedes an encore, and after winning the fifth stage of the Tour de France in Privas he also puts the seventh in the game bag, with a forceful sprint at the finish line in Lavaur.

The Belgian rider, who won the Strade Bianche and the Milan-Sanremo, lined up the Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen and the French Bryan Coquard;

fourth place for the other transalpine Christophe Laporte, fifth the Belgian Jasper Stuyven.

The winner of the 2019 Tour closes eighth, the Colombian Egan Bernal, the yellow jersey ninth, Adam Yates.

In this very eventful stage the Briton remains the leader with 3 ”over the Slovenian Primož Roglič, but the other Slovenian Matej Pogačar, who reached the finish line with a 1m10” delay together with other important riders, gets off the wheels.

Third in the general classification becomes the French Guillaume Martin at 9 ”;

fourth Bernal at 13 ”together with the other Colombians Nairo Quintana, Miguel Angel Lopez and Rigoberto Uran, the Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, and the French Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot.

Seventh stage of the

approaching the Pyrenees.

It runs from Millau to Lavaur for 168 kilometers.

Fraction with two third category and one fourth category Grand Prix, with the last 44 km slightly undulating.

In advance go the French Cosnefroy (very active in this first week, always looking for points for the climbers classification) and the Swiss Schär.

Once again, the Frenchman still wins the points of the GPM of the Côte de Luzençon.

The platoon breaks up and many sprinters, including Kristoff and Ewan, winners of the first and third stages respectively, remain behind.

The first individual attack is that of Thomas de Gendt, who passes first on the Col de Peyronnenc;

the Belgian takes a 45 ”lead, but is reabsorbed when there are 35 km to the finish.

The group is further fragmented, the yellow jersey remains in the group of the first, but Pogačar, Mollema, Porte, Landa, Chaves, Carapaz, Caruso, van Avermaet, Aru, Trentin, Colbrelli, Oss, Formolo lose contact.

Among the curiosities of the stage, in a downhill stretch the German Emanuel Buchmann set the new speed record for the Tour, reaching 96.3 km / h.

Now the Pyrenees.

Eighth stage from Cazères-sur-Garonne to Loudenvielle for 141 km, with two first category climbs (Menté and Peyresourde) and one "hors catégorie", the 1,755 meters of Port de Balès, 11.7 km of ascent with a medium gradient 7.7%.

However, there is no uphill finish, on the contrary, after the Peyresourde there are 11.5 km of descent.