One day after his birthday, on which BORA - hansgrohe sprint star Sam Welsford secured a hat-trick at the Tour Down Under, he was able to rest his legs a little on today's climb to Willunga Hill. Welsford rolled across the finish line in the back of the pack, protected by his teammates Danny van Poppel, Filip Maciejuk and Ryan Mullen.
As expected, the real race took place elsewhere in the peloton today, as a new stage winner was found in Oscar Onley and a new overall leader in Stephen Williams.
Both managed to clearly distance Julian Alaphilippe and Simon Yates in the final meters and crossed the finish line at the same time, just ahead of Jhonnatan Narvaez, who took third place in today's stage.
Nevertheless, Welsford finished well and has another opportunity to collect a few points tomorrow. Welsford is still leading the points classification (sprint) in the blue jersey. Sam Welsford is clearly ahead with 90 points, ahead of Biniam Girmay, who has 77 points and ahead of Max Kanter from the Astana Qazaqstan Team, who has 54 points.
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- exactly, he had an amazing season, but with these overstatements they don‘t do him good.Ketterechts08-11-2026
- More to the point, it isn't his remaining goal.Renz08-11-2026
- lol yeahmij08-11-2026
- I know, their headlines can be so misleading. Pidcock had a great season with 5 wins. and some solid 2nds. no reason to take away from that with a fake headline.mij08-11-2026
- You can clearly see the the posture change from slightly sitting to again out of the saddle while changing of gears in the video of the sprintabstractengineer08-11-2026
- He has already beaten Pogi twice in the TDF. the achievement is over. He cannot beat Pogi now and he only has a few years left at the top. Win Giro and compete in the TDF, maximise palmares.abstractengineer08-11-2026
- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
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🇦🇺 #TourDownUnder Still in blue, @sam_welsford! 👊🏼
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