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Issued on: 03/07/2022 – 18: 13
Team BikeExchange-Jayco’s Dylan Groenewegen celebrates as he crosses the cease line to safe the third stage of the 109th edition of the Tour de France in Sonderborg, Denmark on July 3, 2022. © Marco Bertorello, AFP
Dylan Groenewegen of Team BikeExchange–Jayco clinched the third stage of the Tour de France in a photograph cease on Sunday as Wout van Aert took 2nd region to care for the final leader’s yellow jersey.
Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen snatched victory within the third stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, edging Wout van Aert on the road even supposing the Belgian retained the final dawdle leader’s yellow jersey. Bike Switch rider Groenewegen ensured Jumbo’s van Aert carried out 2nd for the third time after the 182km stage, the closing in Denmark forward of the dawdle returns to France, with big crowds lining the route within the Jutland region.
Van Aert leads Yves Lampaert atop the final standings by seven seconds with Tadej Pogacar in third at 14sec. The yellow jersey holder could possibly possibly be high of the plug aspects rankings for the golf green jersey. “I’m having a search forwards to the subsequent week in France,” talked about Van Aert, who could possibly possibly also discontinuance up in yellow for a whereas. “The crew bear let me plug for this, Primoz (Roglic) has his ambitions too and he’s having a search big.” “I continuously dreamed of carrying the yellow, but I wasn’t waiting for these Danish phases to swimsuit me,” he added.
Groenewgen changed into once banned for nine months after causing the fracture that shut to killed Saturday’s winner Fabio Jakobsen, who spoke emotionally about his long wrestle wait on to fitness after his rookie Tour de France safe. “I’m very at ease for Fabio after everything that came about,” talked about a contrite Groenewegen about the fracture on the 2020 Tour of Poland. “He won the day earlier than on the contemporary time but on the contemporary time changed into once my day,” he talked about.
Jakobsen talked about Sunday morning he changed into once unexcited observing for congratulations from his Like a flash-Step teammate Heed Cavendish, after the 25-yr-dilapidated changed into once selected earlier than the Manxman.
Pogacar sore handDefending champion Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates retained the white jersey as easiest underneath-26-yr-dilapidated, a day after being interested in a mass fracture where he come what could managed to care for on his bike. “The discontinuance changed into once a difficult cease, I’m happy with my spin. My hand is a exiguous bit painful after hitting the boundaries, but there is now not any stress,” talked about the Slovenian who admitted that he had no idea about the facts of his crew switch wait on to France.
Magnus Cort Nielsen performed the native hero when the 29-yr-dilapidated from the island of Bornholm made an early solo destroy and rode 130km out front with a permanent smile as he lapped up a wave of fascinating applause, with enthusiastic youngsters operating alongside him.
“It changed into once euphoric, an exceptional day,” talked about the EF rider after pulling on the polka dot jersey again having won on all six hills so a long way. “The crowds helped me alongside, I gave it everything, I surpassed myself and so did they.”
After a wall of sound reverberated round Copenhagen on Saturday’s time-trial, gigantic crowds accompanied the Tour on its following two phases around the remainder of the nation of 5.8 million, who took biking’s showpiece to their hearts and turned out in droves. Stage four is a 171km flat speed from Dunkirk to Calais within the north of France forward of the dawdle heads via the Alps and Pyrenees and heads wait on to Paris for its Champs-Elysees finale July 24.
(AFP)