American Neilson Powless nearly rides into Tour de France lead
American Neilson Powless nearly cycled into the Tour de France lead in the fifth stage.
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American Neilson Powless nearly cycled into the Tour de France lead in the fifth stage.
Tadej Pogacar, the defending Tour de France champion, threw down the gauntlet in a chaotic fifth stage of the race, the UAE Emirates rider leaving his major rivals in the distance in the heat and dust of the cobbled roads of northern France.
Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) extended his lead at the Tour de France with a ferocious attack on the final categorised climb to win Tuesday’s hilly stage, with Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) jokingly stating he was happy to see the Belgian also drop his own team. Van Aert, who finished second in the opening three stages of this year’s Tour de France, made his move with 10km to go, launching a big attack to escape from his rivals, as well as his Jumbo-Visma team. Ad/> Defending champion Pogacar also couldn’t go with the move, but neither could his main rival Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) as the pair crossed the line amongst the peloton, eight seconds behind Van Aert.
CALAIS, France: Belgian rider Wout van Aert won the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France and extended his overall lead after attacking strongly on the day’s final climb on Tuesday.
No one has dominated the recent history of the Tour de France in the same brutal fashion as Wout van Aert. In a way like you have never seen before, and in the yellow jersey no less, the Belgian ended a streak of three successive second places on Tuesday – a streak, lest you forget, that came off the back of consecutive victories in the final two stages of last year’s Tour.
Wout Van Aert used a late attack to solo to victory on stage four of the Tour de France in Calais and extend his lead in the yellow jersey.
The 2022 Tour de France began in Copenhagen and finishes in Paris on Sunday 24 July, where Slovenian superstar Tadej Pogacar hopes to be wearing yellow and be crowned champion for the third year in a row.
SONDERBORG, Denmark — Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen overtook Wout van Aert and Peter Sagan at the line to win the third stage of the Tour de France in a photo finish while Van Aert extended his overall lead on Sunday.