Tour de France

Sagan wins, Froome makes the time well

Bang on the overpass stage: Instead of the expected power-saving mode in front of the Mont-Ventoux stage of the driver is to provide on the flat eleventh Tour-part race, an exciting wind edges.

A spirited departure out of the wind shadow, wild movements with the Arm, and a quite respectable acceleration: At the end of this remarkable stage Chris Froome sprinted even a little far-fetched for the stage win. And on an almost plate flat portion. What was going on there?

Chris Froome (Team Sky) took advantage of, quite simply, the favor of the hour. As with its attack last week on the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, the carrier of the Yellow Jersey überrraschte his competition with a departure away from the steep ramps that would otherwise be area. Froome was followed by a flat stage to Montpellier 12 km from the finish of an attack of Slovakian Peter Sagan (Tinkoff). It followed, also, with Poland’s Maciej Bodnar (also Tinkoff) and Geraint Thomas (Sky), two important helper. Together, the Quartet spun and held to the finish with a lead of six seconds.

To be true to Sagan and his team boss?

In the Sprint of the four-man breakaway, Froome opened, surprisingly, was the winner of the tour of the previous year, according to 162,2 kilometers, needless to say, no chance against the powerhouse Sagan was Second ahead of Bodnar. The winner of the Green Jersey won already his second stage, and gained additional valuable counter in the scoring of the point best. The world champion could change his mind and perhaps even its for its vagaries well-known team boss Oleg Tinkov. The eccentric multi-millionaire from Russia wants to dissolve the team at the end of the season. Given Sagan’s strong performances, he hinted at already, perhaps, but with his sponsorship, if Sagan would win.

It began as a quiet day. This eleventh Tour stage but it was still really gripping.

The Sprinter competition from Sagan, Mark Cavendish, Marcel Kittel and André Greipel remained to this day, only the walk-on role. On the wind the edges of situations and attacks marked the eleventh part of the piece, you did not come, despite the work of her helpers in the Aureißer. “It was one hell of a day. We are fast driven on the wind edge. It was a lot of nervousness in the field and at the end it has cost a lot of grains,” said a disappointed Marcel Kittel at the finish. “I don’t know which wheel I lost in the final,” resented the winless Greipel. He had previously triumphed at each of his Tour Start since 2011, at least once.

Two days of truth

Froome is again the real winner of the day, because he took his worst enemy, and two times the Tour-the Second Nairo Quintana 23 seconds. The Briton is now 28 seconds ahead of his second placed compatriot Adam Yates on the may preliminary stages on the Mont Ventoux on Thursday and the time trial on Friday over a 37.5 km from Bourg-Saint-Andéol to La Caverne du Pont-d’Arc. In addition to the seconds and be re-Coup Chris Froome is likely to be a big mental boost for both of these days the truth.