2020 Tour de France Stage 10 Results & Recap
Stage 10 of the 2020 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
Bennett wins a blustery stage 10
Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quick Step) won stage 10 of the Tour de France in a bunch sprint on Ré island ahead of Caleb Ewan and Peter Sagan. The Irishman pocketed his first Tour de France victory, as well as the green jersey.
"I'm just in shock," Bennett said. "I want to thank the whole team and particularly Patrick [Lefévère], who gives me this opportunity to be here. It has taken a while, but I always dreamt of winning a Tour de France stage, and I couldn't imagine what it's like. I thought it wouldn't happen. In the sprint, I was waiting to go because there was a headwind. I thought maybe I waited too late. I had too big of a gear for winning, but I won."
Primoz Roglic arrived safely at the finish line to keep the yellow for another day.
"It was a quite nervous and stressful stage, from the start to the finish," Roglic said. "As a team, we managed it really well. My teammates did a great job, and we can be happy we avoided crashes. Staying healthy and in one piece is key on a grand tour. Hence it is important to be well-positioned in the bunch to avoid trouble and contend for the race. The level of Slovenian cycling is crazy right now, especially for us. As if every single one of the 2 million people living in our country were top athletes! Slovenia has always been present in the international peloton, but never got the results Tadej and I are delivering. I'm proud to be writing history for Slovenian cycling."\nAt the start at Île d'Oléron, Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) and Michael Schär (CCC) attacked from the gun and reached a maximum of two minutes at 33km.
"I didn't plan to go in the breakaway today," Kung said. "But Michael Schär sent me a text message this morning inviting me to give it a try together. And, since today it was a nervous stage and we didn't have any GC guy nor chance in the sprint, I told myself, why not? The stage might be more relaxed on the front, and maybe we built a gap big enough to fight for the stage. But it turned out to be a very fast stage, and we got caught pretty early. I know Miki well. We are very good friends, so it was a pleasure to ride along with him at the front of the race. But, you know, we would have loved to stay a bit longer at the head of the race. To be honest, I only attacked on the bridge to make sure I was getting the combativity prize and the red number."
The two Swiss riders were kept on a short leash by the sprinters and GC teams, and were reabsorbed 70km into the stage. Simultaneously, a crash in the middle of the peloton caused Sam Bewley (Mitchelton-Scott) to abandon.
It was a nervous and windy stage that caused more crashes to occur along the way, one of which Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) were caught up in.
During the intermediate sprint, Matteo Trentin (CCC) outsprinted Peter Sagan and Sam Bennett at the line.
The peloton stayed together until the finish, where Jumbo-Visma and Ineos-Grenadier took control with inside 20km to go.
Team Sunweb started a leadout train for Cees Bol, that it seemed like the other sprinters took advantage of. Bennett sprinted to his first win at the Tour de France, Ewan was second, and Sagan took third.
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