Groenewegen sprints to Tour stage win as Brailsford cools Bernal hype
12 July 2019 04:27
• Dutchman earns third stage victory for Jumbo-Visma• Ineos manager says Colombian is still on learning curveWhile the dust settled on the gravel climb to La Planche des Belles Filles, the Tour’s longest stage, a 230km haul from Belfort to Chalon-sur-Saône, was also its most soporific to date, illuminated briefly by a first sprint victory in this year’s race for Dylan Groenewegen of the Netherlands.As Groenewegen’s Jumbo-Visma team celebrated their third stage win in the 2019 Tour, there was more speculation over the hierarchy at Team Ineos after Geraint Thomas’s resurgence in the Vosges mountains and Dave Brailsford’s suggestion that those tipping the Welshman’s teammate, Egan Bernal, for final victory in Paris, were “getting carried away”. Related: Tour de France 2019: stage-by-stage guide Continue readingread full article
