Like the day before, the 9th stage of the big loop should make the sprinters happy on Sunday in a final in Châteauroux.
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The days follow each other and … look alike. In the aftermath of the first victory at the Italian sprint Jonathan Milan, the Peloton du Tour de France again faced, on Sunday July 13, at a plain stage on a 174.1 km course rallying Chinon in Châteauroux. It is here that the ex-British ex-scrotor Mark Cavendish won three of his 35 victories on the big loop (the record). And it is therefore not for nothing that the mayor of the prefecture of Indre temporarily renamed his commune “Cavendish City”.
Everything therefore indicates that a arrow will once again have the last word at the end of this day run under thirty degrees. The Belgian Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease A Bike), the Eritrean Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), the Australian Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck), or Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) will remain solid suitors for victory. While the first explanation in the mountains is looming on Monday, during the 10th stage, Tadej Pogacar should look at the spectacle at a distance, and quietly preserve its yellow tunic.
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