Never have two runners from the same team dared to perform the entire stage in the lead. During the 9th of this 112 edition, he only missed 700 meters at Van der Poel to win in Châteauroux. Second success for Merlier.
Sometimes you should be able to change the regulations. Faced with so much cheek, generosity and grandeur combined, it would be necessary to have the opportunity to take out a box (it’s fashionable!) And to say to the pursuers, sorry gentlemen, you no longer have the right to continue. You had to think about it before … or to advance the arrival at the level of the red flame, or else … we don’t know what to say.
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In the last quarter of an hour of this not ordinary stage (one more), we have, with all our poor strengths, pushed Mathieu van der Poel towards the impossible feat. Leaving since the kilometer … Zero, as soon as the flag is lowered, the grandson of Poupou and his boyfriend Jonas Rickaert (the first to go out) crossed this long end of France, from the edges of Vienne to the Berry in mind and not to laugh.
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Elected combative of the day (for gentlemen jurors, with doubtful inspirations, the double crown should only work with totalnergies …), Rickaert left the triple winner of Paris-Roubaix try to finish alone.
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Despite the latest attempts by Dillier and Versrynge to sabotage the work of the Sprinters teammates, he was resumed after passing the red flame. Main craftsmen of mobilization, the Lidl-Trek rolled up for nothing (well almost, their sprinter scored big points on arrival) since Milan was hit by Tim Merlier who raises his arms for the third time on the Tour, the second this summer.
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Tim Merlier, an old Alpecin.
“It is still a disappointment explains the former world champion, exhausted of course after the line. We would never have thought go to the lead, we had thought of doing this last night so that Jonas could be on the podium of fighting spirit. After, it would have been necessary to come back to us … it’s a shame.”
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Recall that until 2022, Cavendish’s successor to “Cavendish City”, reigning European champion, wore the same colors of Alpecin. Stronged by Philipsen for the selections on the Tour, the cyclo-cross man (another!) Preferred to change the air. After his dunkirk number, he brings, despite Milan who was doubled the bet for a short time, a third bouquet at Wolfpack, Remco Evenepoel having dominated the Caennais chrono.
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Van der Poel and Rickaert allowed this ninth stage to compete at … 50.013 km/h on average, we believed, for a moment, the record of Mario Cipollini (50.355 km/h between Laval and Blois on July 7, 1999) threatened.
