Ewan is the fastest in the tight end of Poitiers

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The temptation to say or write that "nothing has happened" is usually intense after seeing a stage in which there are one or more escapees that the platoon ends up hunting so that everything is resolved in a massive 'sprint'.

But even the most anodyne cycling days hide little stories that deserve to be told.

Sometimes, of course, they are bad, as happened this Wednesday.

He will not say that Ion Izagirre has not passed, that he had no choice but to go home after breaking his collarbone in a fall in which the blood spread over his face and torso.

Nor

, who held on to the race as much as he could, but ended up abandoning, apparently suffering from an illness.

There are also small stories of vindication, individual or collective.

The Groupama-FDJ, always combative, received a tremendous blow on Saturday with the forced resignation of

to fight for the general classification, still sore from his fall on the first day.

The immediate reaction was for the entire team to accompany him to the finish line, as a sign of respect and loyalty.

Since then, he and the entire team have been looking for a presence in the getaways to seek partial victories, or at least visibility for their sponsors on television, in the remainder of the Tour, still half.

On Tuesday it was the Swiss

who, together with his CCC compatriot

,

sought

an adventure ahead of a peloton that did not give them much ball.

This Wednesday, the turn was for

, with carte blanche to make his way through a stage in which, as planned, the favorites gave themselves a truce, the only one they will have in the next eight days.

Of course he did not last until Poitiers, the city in whose university

was trained

, but he sucked the camera, which is what this type of stage is all about.

Disqualification of Sagan

43 kilometers from the finish line, Ladagnous's adventure ended, since then he took refuge in a platoon in which the Deceuninck assumed the leadership that corresponds to Jumbo as the goal approached.

team did not expect

a Bora,

, to break the script, launching an attack six kilometers from the finish line.

and

decided to go after him and then other teams had to appear to avoid giving the triumph to the trio of adventurers.

There were two kilometers left when the waters returned to their course and the launch of a beautiful 'sprint' was rebuilt, the most exciting of what we have on Tour.

Ewan, Sagan, Bennett and

, who, in that order, entered the finish line within a few centimeters.

And with the anger of the Belgian, to whom

showed his elbow something more than recommended, being later disqualified.

The success, in short, was for the Australian, who adds his second victory on this Tour.

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