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2:30 pm:
Hello everyone, put on your slippers, take refuge under a blanket, we start this live straight away with the anticipated summary of the stage to make the most of your nap without missing a thing!
Anger roars within the peloton. After repeated falls in the Nice region last September, we are now coming out of three consecutive days marked by falls. And when it is not a spectator who gets in the way of the runners, the organization has the good idea to put narrow roads while the trains of sprinters seek to form. It is too much, this time the strike is respected. At a fictitious starting pace, the peloton stays together until kilometer 50. Then stops for a few minutes.
Christian Prudhomme is pissed off but stays in his red car. We give the first pedal strokes. Without much conviction, since there are already less than 100 milestones to go, a bunch of runners led by Pierre Roland escapes. It is a question of honoring the B&B jersey one last time before leaving Brittany. The peloton is led by the Jumbo. There is no question that Roglic is again delayed by a fall, the yellow and black train rolls at an infernal pace. The breakaway swallowed 20 kilometers from the finish, the sprinters get underway. Sagan, still quite shaken from the day before, is too far away to exist. Everyone is marking themselves and trying to avoid the fall, so only a nutcase can get out of the drawer. Nacer Bouhani wins in a chair, ahead of Cavendish.Cocorico for the Caliméro of French cycling.
Are we finally going to have the right to a little calm at the start of the Tour de France? After the great emotions given by Alaphilippe then van der Poel, yesterday's stage was marked by three crashes in the final and a big rant from Marc Madiot. Tim Merlier had taken advantage of all this mess and a train taken by the yellow jersey himself to win. But the peloton is scarred and angry, especially because of these last 10 winding kilometers. A strike is planned, with a break after 50km. No escape in sight then? On this course, it is difficult to imagine anything other than a new massive sprint in any case. In the general classification, van der Poel is still leader with 8 seconds ahead of Julian and 31 over Carapaz. Caught in a fall, Roglic is already behind schedule.
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