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Tour de France 2017 Stage 10

photo credits @ Le Tour

Marcel Kittel (QuickStep Floors) once again proved unstoppable during stage 10 of the Tour de France today, after easily vanquishing his closest rivals John Degenkolb (Trek Segafredo) and Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo) with another long-range acceleration for the finish. 

Having already won Stage 2, Stage 6 and Stage 7, Kittel now the most prolific German rider in Tour history, with 13 career stage wins.

“I can’t really believe it. It’s number four, which is an incredible amount of Tour de France stages in one Tour. I’m so happy”, said a jubilant Kittel after the stage.

“I won now so many stages in the Tour. I never expected it when I was starting my career. “I never really expected to be even in the Tour. I was hoping maybe at one point to become a professional, but that I would be at this level with these wins, it’s hard for me to imagine, Kittel added. 

“I think I had a pretty good spot because it was still relatively far with 500 meters to go at the last left corner. I saw that McLay started to sprint very early to come to the front, and that was my lead-out. From then on, I hit the front at 220 and I think it’s no surprise that I feel really good at the moment in the sprint.”

Meanwhile, there was no change in the overall classification on an otherwise quiet day, with Sky’s Chris Froome keeping his 18 second lead over Fabio Aru (Astana), and 51 seconds over Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale).

Race Highlights

Yoann Offredo (Wanty-Groupe Gobert) was the first rider to make an escape stick as the day kicked off in Périgueux, and for a short while it looked as though we would have a repeat of stage four with a lone Wanty rider out all day.

However, youngest rider in the race Elie Gesbert (Fortuneo-Oscaro) managed to bridge to Offredo to form a French duo.

Compared to the previous day of racing on Sunday, the stage unfolded in a very straightforward manner. The two escapees forged on, gaining a five-plus-minute advantage over the bunch. Then, after the half-way mark, their advantage started to get chipped away as the peloton eyed a bunch sprint finish.

With the duo caught with 7km to go, the break was caught. This signalled the peloton to noticeably increase its pace to prevent any further late attacks and keep things together for the sprinters.

Lotto-Soudal were by far the most organized of the teams heading into the finale, but Greipel – who had earlier ‘won’ the intermediate sprint out of the bunch – somehow found himself on Alexander Kristoff’s (Katusha-Alpecin) wheel and badly positioned.

He sat up and had to settle to spectating as his compatriot Kittel swept to another victory.

Stage 10 result

1. Marcel Kittel (Ger) Quick-Step Floors, 4h01’00”
2. John Degenkolb (Ger) Trek-Segafredo, same time
3. Dylan Groenewegen (Ned) Team LottoNL-Jumbo, same time
4. Rudiger Selig (Ger) Bora-hansgrohe, same time
5. Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha-Alpecin, same time
6. Nacer Bouhanni (Fra) Cofidis, same time
7. Dan McLay (GB) Fortuneo-Oscaro, same time
8. Pieter Vanspeybrouck (Bel) Wanty-Groupe Gobert, same time
9. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-Merida, same time
10. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Team Dimension Data, same time

General classification

1. Chris Froome (GB) Team Sky, 42h27’29”
2. Fabio Aru (Ita) Astana, +18”
3. Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale, +51″
4. Rigoberto Uran (Col) Cannondale-Drapac, +55 “
5. Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana, +1’37”
6. Dan Martin (Irl) Quick-Step Floors, +1’44”
7. Simon Yates (GB) ORICA-SCOTT, +2’02”
8. Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team, +2’13”
9. Mikel Landa (Esp) Team Sky, +3’06”
10. George Bennet (NZ) Team LottoNL-Jumbo, +3’53”

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