After Pidcock’s victory on Alpe d’Huez, we head towards the center of France where the scorching heat could affect the race. Vingegaard saved the yellow jersey from Pogacar’s attacks, but today there is a stage that can reserve ambushes …
Today, after the Alps, there is the thirteenth stage, Le Bourg d’Oisans-Saint Etienne, 193 km. Day dedicated to sprinters and “baroudeurs”, that is to say the attackers. We go to the center of France and the heat here is felt more than anywhere else. The football team of Saint Etienne is nicknamed “les Verts”, the green, from the color of the shirt, and this occasion will be important to accumulate points in this ranking that Sagan has won seven times (record). Saint Etienne is reached for the 27th time, the first in 1950: the Tour avoided these central areas and preferred to touch the borders of France. Here we remember the image of Bernard Hinault in yellow in 1985, bleeding and with a fractured nose after a fall in the sprint for the tenth place … The “Tasso” still won his fifth Grande Boucle that year.
July 15, 2022 (change July 15, 2022 | 11:56 am)
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