Jumbo-Visma’s Christophe Laporte became the first French stage winner of this year’s Tour de France, while Jonas Vingegaard was untroubled
When Tadej Pogacar dramaticallyin the final time trial of the 2020 Tour de France to snatch the yellow jersey from the Jumbo-Visma team, Jonas Vingegaard was in hospital, celebrating the arrival of his first child.
Right now, the omens are good and his team is flying. In Cahors, his French teammate Christophe Laporte won stage 19 after holding off the pursuing peloton in the shade of the plane trees lining the Boulevard Leon Gambetta. This has been a torrid and tortuous Tour for sprinters, with only three field sprints in 19 days of racing. Mark Cavendish, not picked by his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team, might now be thinking he has had a lucky escape.Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images
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