Primoz Roglic stored his lead within the Tour de France on Friday with simply two levels remaining as Denmark’s Soren Kragh Andersen soloed to victory on stage 19. Sam Bennett inched additional forward within the wrestle for the inexperienced jersey by beating rival Peter Sagan, who failed in two bids to depart the Irishman behind. Roglic retains a 57sec lead over his Slovenian compatriot Tadej Pogacar whereas Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez is third, 1min 26 sec behind the chief.
After three days ascending Alpine mountains this stage had been described as a straightforward day for the general contenders, and so it proved.
This was not the case for Deceuninck-Fast Step sprinter Bennett nonetheless, who fended off the seven-time inexperienced jersey Sagan of their close-run contest over the remaining dash factors.
Sagan made a bid for glory from 20km out however Bennett was capable of sustain as an escape group fashioned from which Andersen then launched his lightning strike from six kilometres out.
The peloton behind them slowed to a snail’s tempo as lots of the lesser riders realised their contribution to this Tour was basically over because of the nature of the ultimate two levels.
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A person time-trial on Saturday will see Roglic and his rivals for the yellow jersey race solo over 36km.
The Tour de France then culminates in a type of parade into Paris earlier than a dash across the Champs Elysees the place Roglic appears to be like prone to take the 2020 Tour title.
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