Europe 1 with AFP
5:41 p.m., July 22, 2022modified to
9:31 p.m., July 22, 2022
Frenchman Christophe Laporte won the 19th stage of the Tour de France this Friday, thus opening the ball for tricolor victories. The runner won in a sprint on the finish line in Cahors, in the Lot. Meanwhile, his Danish teammate Jonas Vingegaard keeps the yellow jersey two days from the finish.
Christophe Laporte (Jumbo) won the 19th stage of the Tour de France on Friday in Cahors, the first success for a French rider since leaving Copenhagen. His Danish teammate Jonas Vingegaard kept the yellow jersey two days before the finish in Paris.
@LAPORTEChristop wins in Cahors!
@LAPORTEChristop wins in Cahors!#TDF2022pic.twitter.com/HrYWhUvAJ4
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 22, 2022
Christophe Laporte said he had “difficult to achieve yet”. “We had the objective of securing Jonas (note: Vingegaard) for 3 kilometers and after the team said to me ‘Go, it’s for you'”, told the French rider at the microphone of the Tour de France .
️ @LAPORTEChristop : “I find it hard to realize. It’s just incredible!”
Listen to the full interview #TDF2022pic.twitter.com/yHeY6pnfgD
— Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 22, 2022
The cyclist thanked his team. “It’s a great day,” he said happily. “If it makes the public happy, it makes me even happier.”
Until now, Laporte had not been able to do better than second in the Tour when he wore the colors of the Cofidis team, which he left in the offseason to join Jumbo. He had notably come close to victory behind Arnaud Démare in the Pau stage in 2018.
Relief for French cycling
His success in Cahors, 28 years after that of Jacky Durand during the only previous stage finish in the Lot prefecture, saved the French balance sheet. Media pressure had mounted over the days on this subject, to chase away the ghost of the two “fanny” years for the stages, the 1926 and 1999 editions.
In the winding Cahors final, described as “stressful” by Vingegaard, Laporte produced a first effort before the red flame to come back to the trio at the head of the race in the last thirty kilometers (Wright, Gougeard, Stuyven). He took his start to 600 meters, in the rising false flat, to precede the Belgian Jasper Philipsen, the Italian Alberto Dainese and the French champion Florian Sénéchal by one second.
Source: Europe1
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