The 11th stage ended on the Toulouse side on the victory of Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen, while Tadej Pogacar was the victim of a fall.
A month after having broken the collarbone on June 18 at the Tour de Belgique, Jonas Abrahamsen won the 11th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday in Toulouse after a crazy day during which Tadej Pogacar fell into the final, at first glance without gravity. The Norwegian runner of UNO-X wins, at 29, the greatest victory of his career. He was ahead of his escaped companion, the Swiss Mauro Schmid, during a sprint marked by the intrusion of a spectator on the course, placed as a rugby player by a member of the organization.
The two men narrowly resisted the return of Mathieu van der Poel, who had extracted himself in the last coast (Pech David) from a group of royal counter-attackers also including Wout Van Aert, Arnaud de Lie, Quinn Simmons and Axel Laurance. “When I broke the collarbone on the Tour of Belgium, I was crying in the hospital because I thought it was damn for the Tour de France. But the next day, I was on the home trainer. I did everything to come back ”said Abrahamsen, who had been very visible last year already by spending ten stages with the polka dot jersey. He brings to the UNO-X team, invited, his first victory in the Tour.
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The yellow jersey remains on the shoulders of the Irishman Ben Healy with 29 seconds ahead of Tadej Pogacar on the eve of the first mountain stage in the Pyrenees. The final was also marked by the fall of the Slovenian about six kilometers from the finish. Touching the rear wheel of Tobias Johannesen, the world champion went to the ground before typing the rim of the sidewalk.
The Slovenian handed over his channel before leaving, with a scratched left elbow but apparently without any other damage, while the favorite peloton has shown fair play to slow down and wait for his return. “Everything is fine, everything is fine, respect for the peloton, respect to everyone, thank you all”he said in the headset by communicating with his UAE team. “I’m doing well, thanks”he added on the line to his teammate Nils Politt who came to the news.
Everything is fine, everything is fine, respect for the peloton, respect to everyone, thank you all.
Tadej Pogacar
Previously, the stage had already been very lively with the fascinating chase at the front between two groups of five runners which stretched over almost a hundred kilometers. In the peloton of the favorites also there was a fight, especially when he accelerated at the time of a break from Tadej Pogacar to satisfy a natural need. The Slovenian had to briefly work to return. He was still harassed by the Visma team in the final with a small attack at the top of the Pech Wall David de Jonas Vingegaard, followed by another Matteo Jorgenson band, there too without effect. Thursday, the road will rise very seriously with the first large mountain stage for an arrival at the top in Hautacam.
