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Jonathan Milan sprints to first stage win

Jonathan Milan sprints to first stage win

Qatar Tribunea day ago
Jonathan Milan claimed his first career Tour de France stage win as he beat Wout van Aert and Kaden Groves in an uphill sprint in Laval. Milan, 24, had lost his lead-out men on the technical finish to the 171.4km stage from Saint-Meen-le-Grand but surfed the wheels before holding off the late charge of Van Aert. The Italian won in the green jersey he was wearing on behalf of overall leader Tadej Pogacar, but the victory means he will wear it on Sunday by rights as he moved to the top of the points classification. Pogacar enjoyed a relatively easy day in yellow, content to sit further down in the peloton, as the sprinters had only their third opportunity of the Tour and first since Monday - albeit on a slight uphill drag to the line that made it one for the more powerful among them.
'I don't still understand what we did,' said Milan, remarkably the first Italian stage winner since Vincenzo Nibali in 2019. 'To come with some expectations, some dreams, but then to bring them home is two different things, but I was confident with the team. We were really close in the last (sprint), not the first stage, but on the third one we were pretty close, we know we just went too early, but today we were really focused. I really believed in my guys, they did an amazing job.'(PA Media/DPA)
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