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Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen wins stage 15 after very rough day for sprinters
CyclingSunday, 17 July 2022 at 17:53
Jasper Philipsen has taken his first win in the Tour de France after a brutal day in southern France. The Alpecin-Deceuninck rider has survived the day's attacks and splits, and in the end had the top speed in the final sprint.
The extreme heat and rolling terrain had a lot of tension early in the day, as many riders looked to get in the day's breakaway. A big battled ensured, but a trio went up the road with Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) present, joined by Nils Politt (Jumbo-Visma) and Mikkel Honoré (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team). As the peloton managed to restrict everyone else from riding up the road and chased hard, the green jersey waited for the peloton leaving two in front.
The duo never had much of a time gap, however they forced the peloton to ride hard all day long. In the final categorized climb of the day the duo were caught as Trek - Segafredo pushed the pace hard, seeing some sprinters dropped - definitely in the case of Fabio Jakobsen and Caleb Ewan.
Jumbo-Visma suffered some crashes, with Steven Kruijswijk forced to abandon and Jonas Vingegaard put under serious pressure at a certain point. Over the top of the climb there were some moves, with Benjamin Thomas and Alexis Gougeard getting a gap despite the hard pace, coming from Trek, Alpecin and BORA.
Risk of echelons as also present with INEOS trying twice to cause splits, however without success. The chase was furious, and necessary as Benjamin Thomas rode into the final 500 meters still at the head of the race, only to suffer a heartbreak in sight of the line.
Trek - Segafredo led the sprint out with Mads Pedersen in prime position, however in the technical final sprint it was Jasper Philipsen who carried the most speed, beating Wout van Aert and Pedersen to the line.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024