• Ewan pips Groenewegen in mass sprint to win in Toulouse
• Alaphilippe retains his overall Tour de France lead
Caleb Ewan of Australia, riding for the Lotto-Soudal team, won the 11th stage of the Tour de France from Albi to Toulouse, the first of his career, despite his usual lead-out man Jasper de Buyst tumbling into a ditch only a few kilometres from the finish.
The diminutive 25-year-old follows in the wheel tracks of Mark Cavendish, absent from this year’s race following his non-selection by the Dimension Data team, who was the last winner in Toulouse in 2008. Ewan’s acceleration in the Boulevard Lascrosses proved too rapid for his rivals Dylan Groenewegen and Elia Viviani, after a stage-long break was swept up in the closing kilometres.
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Toulouse
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/17/tour-de-france-stage-11 under the title “Caleb Ewan wins Tour de France stage 11 as Julian Alaphilippe stays in yellow”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
