Greipel's Tour stage victory softens blow of losing injured Van den Broeck
Fifth Tour de Fra🍒nce stage win for German sprinter





















168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Andre Greipel said that his victory in stage 6 of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France today demonstrated 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto-Belisol's fighting spirit after beingꦯ hit with news that their GC rider had abandoned through injury. The Belgian team learned this morning that general classification hope Jurgen Van den Broeck had abandoned because of injuries caused in a pile-up yesterday.
"H𒅌appiness and sadness can be so close together," said Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) after his win.
"I think this shows the character we hav🌄e in this team - and obviously also the horsepower."
It was also case of third time lucky for Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol🍒). After being held up with a mechanical on stage 1 and experiencing problems with his sprint train into Marseille yesterday, the team finally managed to bring the race under control in the closing kilometres of the race.
About 2km from the line, the well-drilled line of Lotto-Belisol riders passed the flagging Argos-Shimano train and left Greipel in the perfect position to battle with the top sprinters at this year's race. Peter Sagan (Cannondale) finished second, Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) third, and Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-QuickStep🀅), forced to chase back on after a crash with 30km to go, was fourth.
Greipel's success - the fifth Tour stage victory of his career - also fires up the contest for 🎐the green jersey. Greipel won the intermediate sprint in Maussane-Les-Alpil🔯les to move him to within 30 points of the current jersey holder Sagan.
"I think like everybody 🍸could see in the intermediate sprint, I went for the points, so I still see a chance to get green and we'll still fight for it,✤" he said.
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Tomorrow's stag🎉e into Albi wi♏ll be the last opportunity for sprinters before the race enters the Pyrenees on Saturday.
Sam started as a trainee reporter on daily newspapers in the UK before moving to South Africa where he contributed to national cycling magazine R♔ide for three years. After moving back to the UK he joined Procycling as a staff writer in November 2010.