- It was a fantastic day.

I can not describe how grateful I am to the stable and Richard.

I will never forget it and it was goosebumps the last few kilometers, says Kwiatkowski according to the BBC.

Shortly before the start of the Tour de France at the end of August, the British stable announced that they had eliminated four-time tour winner Chris Froome and 2018 winner Geraint Thomas.

The stable would put all the gunpowder to drive for last year's winner Egan Bernal, who broke on Sunday's tough mountain stage and broke before Tuesday's stage.

It has aroused criticism, something that has grown in scope since Bernal stepped down.

There was nothing to run for in total for the stable which has dominated in recent years and won every edition since 2015 (the first years as Team Sky) and on Tuesday and Wednesday the Ecuadorian Carapaz made serious attempts to at least bring a stage victory to the stable - without succeeding.

Spectators took their place on the riot rake

The Pole Kwiatkowski pulled on Carapaz who drove up in the lead in the points competition and stole the red polka dot polka dot jersey and in the race the cyclists hugged each other before Kwiatkowski got the honor to win.

For safety's sake, Carapaz pulled his handbrake to release his teammate.

Very strong Wout van Aert won the sprint and finished third.

An excited spectator had taken his place in the riot rake and was close to the close duo before he was met away.

In the large crowd that for a while was nine minutes behind the breakaways, overall leader Primoz Roglic watched his Slovenian compatriot, runner-up Tadje Pogacar, and it was lovingly out on the stage.

Shortly after a party on dusty gravel roads where Roglic showed up, the two cyclists hugged each other.

They kept to each other across the finish line where they were four and five barely two minutes behind the lead.

There were no changes in the total, but Roglic is still 57 seconds ahead of Pogacar.

Today's stage was 175 km long with five large climbs between Meribel and La Roche-sur-Foron in the Alps in southeastern France south of Grenoble.