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“I can be really happy with our team performance today. We had a great leadout. Jonas (Rickaert) did the first part and then Mathieu (van der Poel) did a fantastic job and I’m really happy to see that through to the finish line to be able to”, Philipsen was happy regarding the third tour stage victory of his career and added to the leadout by superstar van der Poel:
“It’s great. When he has space, he has the speed that you can be sure that no other leadout can get past him. It was a difficult final with the S-curve at the end. I tried to get the to take the shortest route to the line and I’m really happy to have crossed the line first.”
Bauhaus seemed a little disappointed at first to have just missed out on victory, but was able to reflect positively on the Eurosport microphone:
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“For a few seconds I thought I might win, but Philipsen had the speed and was the strongest. It’s a great result and I’ll be proud of this result in the future”; like the German.
Philipsen cooks off Bauhaus and Ewan – shaking his head at van Aert
Behind Philipsen (Alpecin – Deceuninck), Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) and Ewan (Lotto – Dstny), Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal – Quick-Step) took fourth place.
Wout van Aert (Jumbo – Visma) was on Philipsen’s right with 75 meters to go, but then he ran out of space between his compatriot and the gang, the two touched slightly and van Aert lifted his legs so that he went on Finished fifth.
“Yes, it was tight, but it’s the Tour de France. There are no gifts for anyone. Everyone goes all-in,” commented Philipsen on the scene.
Sixth was Mark Cavendish (Astana Qazaqstan) ahead of Bora-hansgrohe sprinter Jordi Meeus.
The overall standings of the Tour de France
In the standings, Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) remains six seconds ahead of teammate Tadej Pogacar and his brother Simon Yates (Jayco – AlUla).
The previous day’s winner Victor Lafay (Cofidis) maintained the lead in the points classification because he scored with an attack in the intermediate sprint, just ahead of Philipsen, who was now tied with 80 points each. The mountain jersey is retained by Neilson Powless (EF Education – EasyPost) who continued to extend his lead in the day’s breakaway. Pogacar remains in the best young driver’s white jersey.
This is how the 3rd stage of the Tour de France went:
Immediately following the starting gun, Neilson Powless (EF Education – EasyPost), the wearer of the mountain jersey, launched the first attack. He was followed by Laurent Pichon (Arkéa – Samsic) and the duo pulled away to have a lead of 2:35 minutes before the first mountain prize in the 3rd category following 14 kilometers. As expected, Powless secured the next two points for the mountains classification.
At the second mountain prize 20 kilometers later, Powless was the first to cross the line and the field was now 3:20 minutes behind. The pace in the first two hours of the race was relatively low and so you stayed up to 15 minutes behind the slowest marching table estimated by the organizer ASO for a long time.
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Six kilometers before the intermediate sprint, yesterday’s winner Victor Lafay (Cofidis) used this to attack. The Frenchman was obviously aiming for points for his green jersey and because the field didn’t follow suit, he got the 15 points for third place and then fell back once more. At the top, Pichon secured 20 points and 1,500 euros, while Mads Pedersen (Lidl – Trek) sprinted from the main field to fourth place.
Due to the increased speed in the sprint, the peloton then moved back to the front at 1:50 minutes, but then relaxed once more. Powless also took the two points from the third and fourth mountain prizes and dropped back towards the peloton with 82 kilometers to go in San Sebastian, allowing Pichon to continue alone with a lead of 2:10 minutes.
Again tacks caused a lot of tire damage
In San Sebastian, like the day before in a suburb of the big city, there was once more a large number of punctures in the peloton – and thumbtacks were thrown onto the road once more.
Thumbtacks once more! Numerous punctures during the tour
Despite this, Pichon crossed the border into France as a soloist with a lead of around one and a half minutes. But the sprinter teams slowly increased the pace and steadily reduced the gap until the 36-year-old Frenchman was caught 37.5 kilometers from the finish line. The group went over the last uncategorized hill with 20 kilometers to go and from there the preparations for the sprint finish in Bayonne began.
On the last few kilometers into Bayonne, Soudal – Quick-Step seemed to have everything under control for a long time. Yves Lampaert drove a very long lead and brought the field around a long right-hand bend with 2,000 meters to go.
On the final kilometer, however, Alpecin – Deceuninck came forward, Mathieu van der Poel launched the leadout and Philipsen then sprinted towards the finish line from the front – side by side with van Aert until the one on the right between Philipsen and the gang in the curve leading to the right Arriving ran out of space and he lifted his legs.
Bauhaus and Ewan were still strong, but might no longer trump Philipsen.
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