Tour de France, Biniam Girmay drops the hat trick
Tour de France, Biniam Girmay drops the hat trick
Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) won the twelfth stage of the Tour de France from Aurillac-Villeuneuve sur Lot of 203.6 kilometers. Slovenian Tadej Pogacar è always yellow jersey.
For the Eritrean è it is the third stage win in the Tour.
A crash with 12 kilometers to go affected the performance of the other Slovenian Primoz Roglic, who arrived at the finish line more than 2 minutes late, dropping from fourth to sixth place in the overall standings.
Girmay beat Belgian Wout Van Aert (Team Visma Lease a Bike) and German Pascal Ackermann (Israel-Premier Tech) in a sprint, fourth the’other Belgian Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceunink).
Frenchman Arnaud Demare (Arkea-B&B Hotels) and Britain’s Mark Cavendish (Astana), who had placed third and fifth, were relegated to the last positions of the main group for squeezing Van Aert against the barriers.
