Together with his win yesterday, Girmay has strengthened his place additional on the prime of the factors classification (inexperienced jersey). With Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) abandoning forward of yesterday’s stage, Girmay has an enormous lead of almost 90 factors again yo Philipsen.
As we speak’s stage needs to be thrilling with a 199km route that begins and finishes in Troyes. It takes the riders on a virtually 200-kilometre trek by way of the mud of the gravel roads close to Troyes. There can be 14 sections of so-called white roads — together with six within the stage finale — which have grow to be a trademark of Italy’s Strade Bianche. We may very well be in for a shake-up within the race for the yellow jersey. Going into at this time’s stage, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Workforce Emirates) holds a 33-second benefit of Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Fast Step), who gained the person time trial on Friday. Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike) is in third, 75 seconds off Pogacar.
Strap yourselves in for a bumpy street, actually!
