The rolling 183.4km stage to Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises came down to a reduced sprint on a riding gradient up to the finish line.
Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay took his second stage win of the Tour de France in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises
That counted out the likes of Sir Mark Cavendish and Dylan Groenewegen but proved ideal terrain for Girmay, who earlier this week became the first black African to win a stage of the Tour, to double up, extending his advantage as the leader of the points classification in the process.Bryan Coquard opened up his sprint first – some 200 metres out – but the Frenchman had gone too soon as Girmay sat on his wheel.
The sprint finish meant no change at the top of the general classification ahead of Sunday’s anticipated stage over 14 gravel sections around Troyes, with Pogacar remaining 33 seconds clear of Remco Evenepoel, with defending champion Jonas Vingegaard 75 seconds back. The Norwegian would do that and more as he spent 170km out front alone, but the six-minute advantage he built never looked like being enough to hold off a motivated peloton and he was finally reeled in around 15km from the finish.
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