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Tour de France, Groenewegen wins the fourth stage. Van Aert still in the yellow jersey

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Tour de France, Groenewegen wins the fourth stage.  Van Aert still in the yellow jersey

In Sonderborg, in the third Danish stage, a sprint victory for the Dutchman who had caused the terrible fall of his compatriot at the 2020 Tour of Poland: thus ends the story that had involved them. Uran and Caruso lose 39 ”. Van Aert keeps the yellow jersey

Denmark will go to sleep tonight with the regret that the Tour de France will not be there tomorrow. Only the yellow flags, the installations and the choreographies that have been built will remain. From the 15 thousand people who flocked to Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens on Wednesday for the presentation of the teams, to the millions of fans who accompanied the three Danish stages. Perhaps it was only with the Great Start in Yorkshire 2014 in Great Britain that the Tour had seen so many people on the roadside. There are no words to describe the affection, truly something unique: the Danes have surpassed themselves with cheering, with fairness on the side of the road. A sensation that the 2012 Giro d’Italia had also experienced, which started from Herning.

yellow jersey

The Tour leaves Denmark in the name of Wout Van Aert, the phenomenal Flemish of Jumbo-Visma who today wore his second yellow jersey (with 7 “on Lampaert and 14” on Pogacar) and who in three stages conquers three second places. Beaten in the time trial by Lampaert, and in the two sprints by Jakobsen and Groenewegen. Yes, in Sonderborg today the music of Dylan is playing… Groenewegen, a 29-year-old Dutchman, who runs in the Bike Exchange-Jayco. The emotion of Dylan, who at the photo finish beats Van Aert, Philipsen and Sagan, is that of the rider who triggered Jakobsen’s terrible crash at the 2020 Tour of Poland: it was 5 August 2020, the day Jakobsen risked dying after the impact at over 80 per hour against the barriers and the road. Groenewegen was disqualified from the UCI, the world federcycle, for nine months due to his impropriety. And certainly this weighed in his head and in the consideration that the group had for him. “It was not easy to come back here to the Tour after everything that happened”, he repeats him several times after the victory. In the end, the Tour, in two days, closes this page of history between the two Dutchmen: even if nothing, however, can be the same as before.

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the fall

It should be noted that Caruso and Uran were involved in a fall 10 km from the finish, paying 39 ”late. Damiano Caruso explains: “It all seemed quiet, but there was a bottleneck on the cobblestones, there was a” hole “and we had to chase to limit the damage. Today we paid. They weren’t good days for me, I lost too much in the time trial, even if I don’t have to win the Tour “. In the end these three stages could have been much more critical, if there had been rain or wind, and instead we return to France with the intact group of its 176 starters. Late in the evening, the caravan leaves Sonderborg for Lille.

Tuesday fourth stage

Monday the first of the three days of rest, and Tuesday the fourth stage, Dunkerque-Calais, km 172. Attention, it is another critical day, which among other things anticipates the dreaded stage of the cobblestones. We are in the north of France, once again not far from the sea. We go towards West Flanders with a series of climbs and tears (six GPM, but the whole road has no breath) that will transform this stage into a classic one. And then the wind: eyes wide open. The 2001 Tour had started from Dunkerque, with a prologue won by the Frenchman Moreau.

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