2019 Tour de France Stage 7 Results & Recap
Stage 7 of the 2019 Tour de France is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Groenewegen victorious in bunch sprint\nBy Clara Beard
Dylan Groenewegen overcame an opening day crash to sprint to victory today at the Tour de France. At 230km, stage 7 was the longest of the three-week tour and ended in a mass sprint with all contenders jockeying for a result. Caleb Ewan (Soudal Lotto) took a close second and the green jersey of Peter Sagan was third.
"It's always very close with Caleb as he's a very good sprinter,” Groenewegen said. “I like to sprint against him. But this time I won. I had a difficult start to the Tour but yesterday I felt good again. Today the team really charged for me. And it was great. We took the lead very early but it was good. I started my sprint with 350 metres to go. I saw that Ewan had gone but fortunately, it was enough. The first day was not at all what I expected and we worked very hard to get to this moment. I'm really happy with the team. After the last sprint stage, they said they believed in me and they worked really hard for me."
Giulio CIccone finished safely in the pack and kept his yellow jersey for yet another day. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) is second at six seconds, and yesterday's winner, Dylan Teuns (Bahrain Merida) is third at 32 seconds.
"The finale was crazy and I was a little tired with my legs after yesterday,” said Ciccone, who also leads the white jersey competition. “But I'm again in the yellow jersey. Tomorrow will be a very hard stage again. For sure I need to try to keep the jersey but I only have six seconds so it will be hard. It's very difficult. Six seconds is nothing. For me, it is important to recover well and tomorrow we will see. With the yellow jersey, it will be impossible to be in the breakaway."
At the start of the stage, Stephane Rossetto and Yoann Offredo shot off the front to make up the breakaway, no one else from the peloton interested in spending so long off the front. The duo was off the front for 218 km before being reeled in by the peloton.
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