2020 Tour de France Stage 14 Results & Recap
Stage 14 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
Kragh Andersen takes first TDF win
Soren Kragh Andersen gave Team Sunweb its second win of the Tour de France today after a gutsy attack with 3km in a thrilling stage 12 finale. Luka Mezgec (Mitchelton Scott) finished second and Simone Consonni (Cofidis) was third in the bunch sprint, 15 seconds behind.
"I have no words. I feel a lot of emotions," he said after the stage. "I dreamt about this, but it was hard to say if I was good enough for winning a Tour de France stage before I had done it. I'm amazed. I had really good legs all day, but you never know how the others are. It took me some time to get the confidence to win at the Tour. Marc Hirschi gave the whole group a lot of motivation. Seeing this young guy doing unbelievable things was inspiring. We didn't expect to go so well. We have the youngest team in the Tour I think. We came here for the future, and we perform already."
Primoz Roglic stayed out of trouble today, but predicts another challenging day in the mountains come tomorrow.
"I thought the stage was going to be easier today, but it was full gas racing the whole day. At least my team stayed with me the whole day and we didn’t have to pull. I was in perfect position in the last kilometres. Going through the city there are too many obstacles and places where bad things can happen. So it was key to be well placed on the group. [Tomorrow’s mountaintop finish at] Grand Colombier will be a nice challenge, and I’m sure it will be fun to watch. My eyes are on everyone, but mostly on myself. It’s my effort the one I can actually manage - not the rest."
At the start in stage 14 in Clermont Ferrand, Cees Bol (Sunweb) and Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo) were the first to form the breakaway at kilometre two. Stefan KĂĽng (Groupama-FDJ) quickly joined them a few moments later.
In some confusion, Casper Pedersen (Sunweb) bridged across and Bol waited for his teammate, but they both drifted back into the peloton after linking up.
Back in the peloton, Bora Hansgrohe was on a mission to crack Sam Bennett today, and they succeeded on the first climb of the day. The climb to Aulteribe located at km 32, and just six kilometres before the intermediate sprint.
Meanwhile, Edward Theuns (Trek-Segafredo) dropped away from KĂĽng leaving the multi-time TT champion at the front alone.
"I rather expected a big breakaway group today, but nobody wanted to try even though only one team was there to control. I don't understand why everyone gave up. In my ideal scenario, there would have been many more riders at the front. When the two Sunweb riders sat up, I told myself it wasn't worth going on, but I still forged on with the preparation of the time trial world championship in mind."
Bora kept the pace high after dropping Bennett on the first climb, and soon the CCC Team came up to assist, their hopes riding with Matteo Trentin.
KĂĽng was caught with 80km to go, and soon after, Deceuninck-Quick Step relented in their pursuit of the peloton.
The peloton relaxed after Bennett called off the chase, and it was all together until Tiesj Benoot (Sunweb) flew off the front with 11km to go. That started a flurry of attacks by Sunweb, determined to disrupt a smooth run into the finish.
Soren Kragh Andersen (Sunweb) was the one who made his move stick with 3km to go.
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