Gerrans holds off Sagan to win 3rd stage of Tour
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July 2, 2013, Tuesday
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AUSTRALIAN sprinter Simon Gerrans held off a late charge by Peter Sagan to win yesterday's hilly third stage of the Tour de France by less than half a wheel.
Gerrans looked to have the finish line in sight with about 100 meters to go, but Sagan launched a devastating late sprint and almost caught him. But Gerrans dug deep to clinch his second career Tour stage win. Spaniard Jose Joaquin Rojas finished third.
Unheralded Jan Bakelants, the winner of Sunday's second stage, kept the yellow jersey.
Yesterday's 145.5-kilometer trek started from Ajaccio, where French emperor and military mastermind Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769, and finished in Calvi after three moderate climbs and a steeper last climb tested the legs of the peloton. Britain's Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas started the third stage yesterday despite suffering from a fractured pelvis.
The 27-year-old Welshman underwent tests in Bastia on Saturday after falling in a mass crash towards the end of the first stage, and the official Tour medical report after the second stage confirmed that he was receiving treatment for a sore left hip.
French television reports yesterday indicated that new tests revealed the fracture, and Thomas was visibly struggling during the short but tricky third stage yesterday.
Gerrans looked to have the finish line in sight with about 100 meters to go, but Sagan launched a devastating late sprint and almost caught him. But Gerrans dug deep to clinch his second career Tour stage win. Spaniard Jose Joaquin Rojas finished third.
Unheralded Jan Bakelants, the winner of Sunday's second stage, kept the yellow jersey.
Yesterday's 145.5-kilometer trek started from Ajaccio, where French emperor and military mastermind Napoleon Bonaparte was born in 1769, and finished in Calvi after three moderate climbs and a steeper last climb tested the legs of the peloton. Britain's Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas started the third stage yesterday despite suffering from a fractured pelvis.
The 27-year-old Welshman underwent tests in Bastia on Saturday after falling in a mass crash towards the end of the first stage, and the official Tour medical report after the second stage confirmed that he was receiving treatment for a sore left hip.
French television reports yesterday indicated that new tests revealed the fracture, and Thomas was visibly struggling during the short but tricky third stage yesterday.
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