Cycling: Wout Poels won the 15th stage of the Tour de France. The Dutchman defeated his namesake Wout van Aert as a breakaway and thus celebrated a stage win in a Grand Tour for the first time in his career. There was no time gap between Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.
Wout Poels leaves Wout van Aert
Out of a large leading group Wout poels (Bahrain – Victorious) took his first stage win in a Grand Tour. The 35-year-old Dutchman was able to break away from the peloton with 37 other riders at the beginning of the stage. At the Col de la Croix Fry and the Col des Aravis he then sat down together wout van aert (Jumbo – Visma) and Krists Neilands (Israel – Premier Tech) from. The Latvian fell back after a fall. And the Belgian couldn't hold Poels' rear wheel as it went up the Côte des Amerands. With this, Wout Poels celebrates another great success in the late autumn of his career. Among other things, he won the 2016 Liège - Bastogne - Liège and 2022 the Ruta del Sol.
38 outliers, including Politt & Haller
No fewer than 38 men dared to join the breakaway group on the 179-kilometer stage from Les Gets les Portes du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc. Among others, there were wout van aert (Jumbo – Visma), Marc Soler (UAE), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama – FDJ), Mikel Landa (Bahrain-Victorious), Julius Ciccone (Lidl-Trek), Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin – Deceuninck), William Martin (Cofidis), Warren Barguil (Arkéa – Samsic), as well as the German Nils Politt and the Austrian Mark Haller from the Bora-hansgrohe team.
Hindley and Gall lose valuable time
Between Tadej pogacar (UAE) and jonas vingegaard (Jumbo – Visma) there should be no lag today. The man in white and the man in yellow crossed the finish line together. Pogacar has attempted an attack twice before. But Vingegaard was again undeterred. This means that the Slovenian and the Dane are still only ten seconds apart. Things weren't going so well for Jay Hindley (Bora – hansgrohe) and Felix Gall (AG2R - Citroën). The Australian lost valuable time fighting for third place because he couldn't keep up with the best on the final climb. The Austrian was unlucky with a defect.
12 years after his first Grand Tour stage win, 35-year-old Wout Poels gets the biggest victory of his career at the Tour de France #TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/NKFc5CL8Md
- Eurosport (@eurosport) July 16, 2023