Tour de France Stage 6: Groenewegen at the Line

Mâcon – Dijon 163.5 km

A completely flat dash stage to maintain the sprint-hype up after yesterday’s history-making climax. There’s a slight tease of the probabilities of crosswinds however possible the winds are only a bit too lazy to have an effect. We will nonetheless dream although.

Estimated end time: 17:20-17:40 CEST

Reducing the mustard: Jasper Philipsen

Clearly the Alpecin leadout hasn’t been firing on all cylinders but and perhaps Jasper isn’t fairly both? You get the sense that final yr Van der Poel would have greater than the briefest of bursts in him when it was his flip to launch Philipsen and likewise Jasper would have had that final additional energy to return round Cav on the road. However that was then and that is now. I nonetheless assume they’re shut sufficient that they are going to pull it off earlier than later although.

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