The third week of this year’s Tour de France was a weird one. Questionable team tactics, a hotel raid, and a five-minute lead for the yellow jersey were just a few of the oddities. It all started on stage 16, a 170km stage that included four categorized climbs, one of them being the 13km long Col de la Core – yet, it all came down to a massive breakaway featuring some of the peloton’s strongest rouleurs in Kasper Asgreen (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Toms Skujiņš (Trek-Segafredo), and Christopher Juul-Jensen (Team BikeExchange). Chaos ensued, and at the end of the day, Bora-Hansgrohe’s Patrick Konrad took the solo stage win.
Tadej Pogačar sets up Tour de France 2021 victory as Wout van Aert wins stage 20 time trial
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Power Analysis: Matej Mohorič on stage 7 of the 2021 Tour de France
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Matej Mohoric (Bahrain-Victorious) won stage 7 of the Tour de France, the longest stage of this year s race at over 249km, from a breakaway that also featured Team Qhubeka NextHash s (www.TeamQhubeka.com) Victor Campenaerts.
Stage 7 of the Tour de France was the longest stage of the race, measuring in at just over 249km. The route from Vierzon to Le Creusot also including a significant number of climbing meters, including the first category 2 climb of the race which peaked with 17km to go.
As the nature of the course suited a breakaway, there was a big fight from the gun for teams to try and get their men into the decisive move. Team Qhubeka NextHash were very active and in fact, the first attacker of the day was Victor Campenaerts.
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