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    STAGE 7

    Oct 09, 2020 1 minute

    FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 4

    Millau › Lavaur

    168KM

    The ‘vent d’Autan’, the seasonal wind which occasionally blows north across this part of France, sends a, who started the stage without the green jersey for only the 26th time in the last eight years and the combination caused insanity in the peloton. Sagan’s Bora team set a fearsome pace from the gun to distance green jersey dropping all the sprinters on the first climb and splitting the peloton to pieces. Sagan was then free to pick up intermediate sprint points to retake green from the Irishman. Importantly, the GC favourites all made it to the front, but then came the wind. As the peloton swung right out of Castres with 30km to go, the vent d’Autan struck from the left. and were the biggest casualties - getting dropped and losing 81 seconds, before Wout Van Aert kept a cool head in the finale to take his second stage win of the 2020 Tour

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