Welcome 𝕴to the third day of the Four Days of𒀰 Dunkirk. Will Marcel Kittel be able to make it a hat-trick today?
🀅Day three of four! Actually, third of five! Lots of action to🐲day.
35km remaining from 171km
With 35km to go, we have a six-man break group with just about two minutes on𝓡 the field.
Rem🍒y Cusin (Cofidis), Anders Lund (Leopard Trek), Andy Cappelle (Quick Step), Cyril Bessy (Saur SojaSun), Mathieu Claude (Europcar) and Anthony Colin (Roubaix Lille Metropole) form the escape group.
29km remaining from 171km
Katusha, Vacansoleil and Leopard Trek ♛are leading the cha💧se.
Oops, let's make that 25km to go and 1:05.
Colin has won at least two of the four mountain ranking🍃s today, giving him the overall lead in that category.
Cappelle, Cusin and Claude are now alone in the lead, with a one-minute gap. The other three have been caught by the field.
15km remaining from 171km
1:10 now for the leadiౠng trio, with Skil-Shimano and Topsport Vlaanderen leading the chase.
The three are doi🥀ng their best, but the gap is starting to come down and is now under a minute.
Everyth𓂃ing indicates tha⭕t we will have another mass sprint today. Will Skil-Shimano's Marcel Kittel be able to make it three in a row?
9km remaining from 171km
The three still have about a minute.
Now down to 40 seconds.....
4km remaining from 171km
Katusha turned up the speed and the gap is nowജ only 25 seconds.
3km remaining from 171km
These three guys really want to come ꩵthrough ෴to the end! They still have 20 seconds.
Flamme Rouge!
And the b꧃reak was caught befo🐻re the last km. The sprint is underway!
Kittel! He does it again!
What a race this young German is having!
Yauheni Hutarovich of F♕DJ took second, with Katusha's Denis Galim𒁃zyanov claiming third.
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