A day after his victory in Chartres Dylan Groenewegen wins on the 8. Stage of the Tour de France, the masses of print in Amiens. Tony Martin injured in a fall so hard that he has to give up.
Professional cyclist Dylan Groenewegen has the eighth stage of the 105. Tour de France won. The Dutchman was able to prevail on the Saturday after 181 kilometers from Dreux to Amiens in the mass sprint ahead of André Greipel, Peter Sagan and Fernando Gaviria. Greipel had bad luck: As he wanted to jump to the rear of the front Sagan, disabled him, Gaviria, and pushed the Germans even with his helmet against the shoulder. To prevent a fall at a hellish pace, drove Greipel a swerve, lost momentum and was intercepted by Groenewegen. Again, no success for the Germans. All the happier was Groenewegen: “The first days were the way I imagined it. But now it’s up and running. On the two days I’m pretty proud of,” said the 25-Year-old, the day before the 7. Stage to Chartres had won.
Over long distances the 8. Stage on the French national holiday had been shaped by a Frenchman in the picture: Fabien Grellier (Direct energy) was pulled out after 22 miles together, Laurens Ten Dam (Sunweb) and Marco Minnaard (Wanty). Ten Dam dropped after the first Intermediate sprint soon into the field, and the other two continued their flight to the second. In the meantime, your advantage fraud on the Peloton nearly six minutes.
Vertebral fracture in the case of Tony Martin
Then the Sprinter Teams put in front of the main field, and let the distance constantly shrinking. A few kilometers before the finish was put Grellier as the last outliers. Previously, a fall of about 17 kilometres before the finish had to split the field into several parts. Was also affected Tom Skujins, of the wearer of the mountain Jersey. In addition to other riders Marcel Kittel and Tony Martin were involved in the crash. Martin was injured so severely that for him, the Tour is coming to an end. As the speaker of the Katusha-Alpecin team, Falk Nier told, suffered the German a vertebral fracture. He can’t continue the tour on Sunday and now has to drive for four weeks, “absolute Radpause”. The four-time time trial world champion is the first of eleven German
Tour participants, who had to prematurely give up.
The target print and the Team of Arnaud Démare opened. But in the end it was not enough for him, too, to the hoped for victory of the French national holiday. Similarly, for the coat was better on the road than on the previous day, but in the final battle could not intervene.
Trouble for Marcel Kittel
Kittel came from behind Greipel, the powerful John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) on place five and the surprisingly rapid Nikias Arndt (Sunweb) only as the fourth-best of the Germans. Kittel smashed his bike against the team bus and disappeared with a loud Cursing on the Inside.
The day had begun for Kittel already very unpleasant. To read In the French newspaper “L’equipe”, which holds the Giro d’italia, sports Director Dimitri Konischew of its Topstar. The Russian described Kittel as “selfish” and criticized him bluntly: “We pay him a lot, but he is only interested in himself,” said the 52-year-old former Sprinter: “in Front of the team time he has played during the team meeting with his cell phone driving around in Cholet. This has given me, that I am interested in him.”
Van Avermaet continues in Yellow
In General classification nothing changed: The Belgian Greg Van Avermaet was able to defend the Yellow Jersey of race leader again successful, and is thus on the Sunday in the leader’s Jersey on the spectacular ninth stage from Arras Citadelle to Roubaix. The section runs over 156,5 kilometers, of which around 22 km over the dreaded cobblestones in Northern France.
asz/jst (dpa, sid)