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6a tappa Gio 11 Luglio MULHOUSE - LA PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES - tappa di montagna 160.5 Km
Giulio Ciccone nuova maglia gialla del Tour de France!
Per il 25enne del Team Trek Segafredo anche maglia bianca della Grand Boucle !
La sesta tappa con arrivo a La Planche Des Belles Fillesse l’è aggiudicata il più esplosivo belga della Barhain Merida Dylan Teuns, giunto ad una manciata di secondi, 11 davanti a Ciccone, i due attaccanti unici reduci della maxi fuga di giornata formata da 14 uomini!
Nibalié arrivato non male a 2’35” dal vincitore ad una cinquantina di secondi da uno straripante Geraind Thomas che oggi é arrivato terzo raggiungendo nel finale Alaphilippe, il francese che eroicamente ha cercato nel finale sterrato al 24% di pendenza, di difendere la maglia gialla !
Buona, considerando che solo tre mesi fa era stato operato, anche la prestazione di Fabio Aru, giunto 11" dopo Nibaliterzo degli italiani.
Male il beniamino di francia Romain Bardet che ha perso 1’10” dagli immediati pretendenti alla classifica ed é arrivato in netta difficoltà facendo fatica a tagliare in traguardo senza perdere l'equilibrio; Nairo Quintanaha lasciato solo 10” a Thomas, Il colombiano capitano della Movistar, per il quale oltre a Landaha lavorato oggi anche il campione del MondoAlejandro Valverde!
Egan Bernaloggi non ha tenuto il ritmo di Thomasche a questo punto é lui, il britannico vincitore del Tour 2018, il capitano principale del Team INEOS !
Bello vedere l’arrivo del cosiddetto gruppetto con i velocisti nel finale così ripido che è sembrata una scena da arrivo di Gran Fondo, piuttosto che il Tour de France!
Le parole di Giulio Ciccone maglia gialla del Tour de France a La Planche des Belles FIlles:
"Nella mia testa ho sempre puntato alla tappa odierna, non avrei mai pensato di conquistare la maglia gialla. Sono arrivato secondo e ho la maglia gialla, sono molto felice".
"Con questa prima tappa di montagna è inizata oggi anche la caccia alla maglia a pois, ma qui al Tour è molto difficile vincere il primato nelle montagne, con come molti ciclisti che lottano per questa maglia. Vedremo - oggi è stata la prima tappa difficile e ne abbiamo molte altr2 in programma, ma ci proviamo di sicuro. "
"indossare la magloia gialla è incredibile, questa sensazione è pazzesca. Ho 24 anni e sono qui per fare esperienza ed ora ho la maglia gialla. Onestamente, nell'ultima salita stavo pensando solo alla vittoria di tappa, soprattutto quando ho visto il nostro tempo ed avevamo solo due minuti di vantaggio. Gli ultimi 100 metri sono stati difficili. Mi sono molto arrabbiato per essere arrivato secondo, ma ora che ho la maglia gialla, è meglio. "
"La tappa di domani è pianeggiante, e possiamo provare a mantenere la maglia gialla, ma poi lavorerò assieme ai miei compagni del Team Trek-Segafredo per Richie (Porte), il nostro capitano che è fortissimo".
"Quest'anno per me è stato fantastico, il Giro d'Italia con la tappa del Mortirolo e la maglia azzurra vinta, era già un grande risultato ed ora sono qui dopo sei tappe e ho la maglia gialla. È incredibile."
La Planche des Belles Filles (France), July 11th –The biggest win of his career so far for Dylan Teuns and one of the biggest for Team BAHRAIN MERIDA. The Belgian rider wins atop La Planche des Belles Filles, the first summit finish of the race. A win from the breakaway and his debut victory at Le Tour de France. What a better way, also to celebrate the first ‘Grand Boucle’ victory of the team.
Stage 6 – 160.5km running from Mulhouse to the famous ski resort in the Department of Haute-Saône and featuring seven categorized climbs – was one of the most awaited. But instead of a showdown of the GC riders, a breakaway could easily formed from the beginning and happilyDylan Teunswas part of it: “Today was a good opportunity for a break so I was looking for a good chance and finally a group of 14 riders formed. It was a nice group and we worked well together.Once we saw the gap was growing, everybody started to believe that we could make it to the finish”.
In fact, Dylan Teuns managed to stay away with the onlyGiulio Cicconeresisting until the final few hundred meters: “I know that Cicconeis a very strong rider, he won a stage at the last Giroand it seemed to me the same situation as last year at the Vuelta, when I lost the victory with Woods and I knew I couldn’t make the same mistake today. So I had to stay calm and just waiting for the right moment. I tried a couple of times in the last five hundred meters and finally the third time I succeeded. I saw that had a little gap and I just kept pushing to the finish line”.
Dylan Teuns - who this season won also a Critérium du Dauphinéstage, wearing the yellow jersey for two days - had never won a Grand Tour stage: “It’s unbelievable and winning here at the Tour de France is a dream come true”.
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Yellow for Ciccone!
Giulio Ciccone misses out on the stage 6 win but overtakes the race lead and best young rider jerseys at the Tour de France.
It was as thrilling as it gets in the first mountain stage at the 2019 Tour de France, with the breakaway contesting the stage win and the GC rivals flexing their muscles in an early climbing test to see who has what it takes.
With Julien Bernardand Giulio Ciccone represented in the day’s large breakaway, and Bauke Mollemagiving Richie Portesupport amongst the GC contenders behind, Trek-Segafredohad all the angles covered, leaving an exhilarating ending up the brutal La Planche des Belles Filles climb.
One by one the breakaway riders fell off the pace on the brutal slopes of La Planche des Belles Filles, until just Cicconeand Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Merida) remained.
Teunsled over the last few hundred meters with Cicconeglued to his wheel looking ready to pounce, but the last ridiculously steep pitch determined the outcome. Teuns held strong as Cicconefell away, the piercing gradient too much for the young Italian.
"Honestly, in the last climb, I was only thinking about the stage especially when I saw the time and we only had two minutes. That last 100 meters was super hard; I was disappointed to finish second, but now that I have the yellow jersey, it is better. I am very happy"
But all was not over for Ciccone– who struggled to stay upright over the final 75 meters and cross the line for second place – the countdown to the yellow jersey had begun.
From the GC rivals group behind, the yellow jersey-clad Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) attacked, knowing it would be close. Alaphilippecrossed the line in sixth place, and when Ciccone’s time bonuses were factored in, the Quick Step rider was six seconds shy of keeping yellow on his shoulders.
Ciccone had done it.
Most of the GC rivals crossed the line within seconds of each other, perhaps a few cracks shown but no big damage to their classification hopes with many more mountains to come.
Richie Portearrived in 11th place, successfully passing the first of many very hard climbing tests.
"To get the yellow is unbelievable, this feeling is crazy. I am 24 and I am here for the experience and now I have the yellow jersey".
Cicconealso leads theBest Young Ridercompetition but will wear the leader’s jersey in stage seven, and it will beEgan Bernal (Team Ineos), in second, who will sport the white jersey. While in the breakaway, Cicconealso grabbed mountain points on offer and now sits in second place in that competition.
Stage seven will see the longest stage of this year’s race and is expected to end in a bunch finish.
"Today with this stage I also started my operation for the mountains jersey, but it’s very hard here as many riders try for this. We will see – today was the first hard stage and we have a lot more coming, but we try for it for sure. Tomorrow is flat, and we can try and keep the yellow jersey, but after, it is all for Richie who is super strong, so we will work for him".
Ordine d’arrivo 6a tappa Tour de France
1 Dylan Teuns (Bel) Bahrain-Merida 4:29:03
2 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:00:11
3 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert 0:01:05
4 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Ineos 0:01:44
5 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:46
6 Julian Alaphilippe (Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep
7 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:01:51
8 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe
9 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:53
10 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team
11 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
12 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Ineos
13 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:58
14 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates
15 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 0:02:02
16 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First
17 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma
18 Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:02:17
19 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:19
20 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma
21 Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:02:27
22 Vincenzo Nibali(Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:35
23 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ
24 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Gobert 0:02:44
25 Fabio Aru (Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:02:46
26 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:52
27 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:53
28 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:03:05
29 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team
30 Tim Wellens (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:03:18
31 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Dimension Data 0:03:26
32 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:05:10
33 Natnael Berhane (Eri) Cofidis Solutions Credits 0:05:20
34 Serge Pauwels (Bel) CCC Team 0:05:44
35 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:06:08
36 Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal 0:06:36
37 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:06:44
38 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:07:23
39 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Education First 0:08:00
40 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:08:37
41 Fabien Grellier (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:09:09
42 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Total Direct Energie 0:09:36
43 Andrea Pasqualon(Ita) Wanty-Gobert 0:10:14
44 Elie Gesbert (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:10:33
45 Sergio Henao (Col) UAE Team Emirates 0:10:46
46 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:11:12
47 Simon Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott
48 Dylan van Baarle (Ned) Team Ineos 0:11:42
49 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Ineos 0:12:20
50 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:13:13
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Classifica generale giovani
1 Giulio Ciccone (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 4:29:14
2 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Ineos 0:01:42
3 Enric Mas(Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:02:06
4 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:02:24
5 Fabien Grellier (Fra) Total Direct Energie 0:08:58
Classifica generale dopo la 6a tappa del Tour de France
1 Giulio Ciccone(Ita) Trek-Segafredo 23:14:55
2 Julian Alaphilippe(Fra) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:00:06
3 Dylan Teuns(Bel) Bahrain-Merida 0:00:32
4 George Bennett (NZl) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:00:47
5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Ineos 0:00:49
6 Egan Bernal (Col) Team Ineos 0:00:53
7 Thibaut Pinot (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:00:58
8 Steven Kruijswijk (Ned) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:01:04
9 Michael Woods (Can) EF Education First 0:01:13
10 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education First 0:01:15
11 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team 0:01:19
12 Emanuel Buchmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:01:22
13 Enric Mas (Spa) Deceuninck-QuickStep 0:01:23
14 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton-Scott 0:01:24
15 Xandro Meurisse (Bel) Wanty-Gobert 0:01:39
16 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:01:41
17 Mikel Landa (Spa) Movistar Team 0:01:43
18 Daniel Martin (Irl) UAE Team Emirates 0:01:46
19 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:01:52
20 Vincenzo Nibali(Ita) Bahrain-Merida 0:01:56
21 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo
22 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Trek-Segafredo 0:02:22
23 Patrick Konrad (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:02:23
24 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team 0:02:31
25 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar Team 0:02:55
26 Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:57
27 Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkéa Samsic 0:03:03
28 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Dimension Data 0:03:05
29 Fabio Aru(Ita) UAE Team Emirates 0:03:25
30 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Wanty-Gobert 0:03:27
31 Rudy Molard (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 0:05:25
32 Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ 0:06:26
33 Tejay Van Garderen (USA) EF Education First 0:07:13
34 Mikael Cherel (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08:47
35 Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:08:59
36 Rein Taaramäe (Est) Total Direct Energie 0:10:03
37 Jack Haig (Aus) Mitchelton-Scott 0:11:47
38 Julien Bernard (Fra) Trek-Segafredo 0:12:00
39 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team 0:13:03
40 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma 0:13:20
41 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) CCC Team 0:14:02
42 Luis León Sanchez (Spa) Astana Pro Team 0:14:21
43 Rui Costa (Por) UAE Team Emirates 0:14:39
44 Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 0:14:40
45 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Team Ineos 0:15:11
46 Fabio Felline (Ita) Trek-Segafredo 0:15:19
47 Nils Politt (Ger) Katusha-Alpecin 0:16:11
48 Mathias Frank (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 0:16:23
49 Gregor Mühlberger (Aut) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:16:45
50 Maximilian Schachmann (Ger) Bora-Hansgrohe 0:16:53
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