PURE SPRINT CHAOS! 😲 | Men’s Tour de France Stage 3 Race Highlights | TNT Sports Cycling

Men’s Tour de France Stage 3 Race Highlights.

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This tour to France has been absolutely brutal. There’s no race quite like the tour and there’s no start quite like the one that we have had. It’s been merciless in terms of its intensity. Bumps and bruises. There have been lots of fingerpointing as well. Nobody can quite figure out how to deal with the day or indeed deal with your rivals. Time to bury the hatchet. There was a lot of tension, a lot of focus in the paddock today. Of course, it is another opportunity for the sprinters. Interesting to hear from Jonathan Milan and Binam Grimmay. They’ve put the contrasts, the argument, the tension behind them of yesterday. They’ve shaken hands. They’re now moving on. But what it does show is the intense spotlight, the pressure to win a sprint stage today. And we could see for the first time in this year’s tour to France, De Mo Jean aka Matthew Vanderpool leading out his teammate Yasper Filiton. That is going to be absolutely fantastic. Can they make it three from three? A change in the wind direction. No change in the weather. Still blowing a hulie just from a different direction. Well, it’s been blowing in from the southwest. The wind swinging round to a northerly meaning crosswinds early on, but then punishingly headwinds all the way up to Dunkirk, our destination of 178 kilometers in total. Not the 209 of the day prior. A lot of fatigue and bruises carried into this day. How would they cope? Well, an intermediate sprint along the way. Just one mountain point up for grabs at Monasel. A revisit there back up to the northern coast and it was grim at the beginning today at the roll out. Well, nobody really fancied getting themselves into much of a position and even when the flag waved, still nobody wanted it. Time for a catch up then. Time for some sympathy perhaps to be spread around the pelatin. There was a few little moves to increase the pace but not by much. We were cruising along around 35 kilometers per hour. a soft dice less than that and so breeze being shot here. Tim Miller just catching up with our overall leader Matthew Van Depool went into yellow in Bologna and then the sun came but it didn’t brighten proceedings I’m afraid this was to turn out to be something of a dark day for many riders who suffered yet again as the pace picked up once we just passed the 100 kilometers to go marker suddenly it was getting even more intense when the intermediate sprint started to loom large there’s plenty of points up for grabs at the finish line in the opening few days here, 50 on each of the days. But the intermediate counts for an awful lot. And if you’re very well placed, then in the green jersey competition, that reflected in points for your team, and that’s vital, too. This was the wrestle. Now, watch Milan. He jinx Kokar up here. He bounces into Rex and then all of a sudden this ow that Jasper Phillips on the ground for Alpacas to Kernik a nightmare for him winner on day one. The man in green but our thoughts were further of course behind. It was such a hard hit I’m afraid that Yasper Fillison is out of the race. absolute nightmare. Well, all riders who were up front had every right to be there. It was just a racing incident. Up ahead was one mountain point up for grabs and clever work by UE Team Emirates. Tim Wellins went up to collect that point and in so doing, courtesy of the finishing places in different categorizations. Same points as Ted Bugattacha but into the polka dot jersey. meaning pressure off today when it comes to the post-race interviews. Wellins will be in polka dots tomorrow. Everybody else cruising over the KM. Nothing to be gained, but of course the finale was starting to loom large in everyone’s minds. After a relatively benign day, it left a lot of power in the legs of the fast. All the teams were already in color order and by the time we’re on our final approach, the road was extremely busy. The big problem was it might have been a Boulevard finale, but a very tight boulevard as well. There wasn’t going to be much room up front. Everyone wanted to be in a decent position. And of course, inevitably, the crashes continued to come. Well, it would be almost all the way to the line that the attrition rate was going up on the day. Thankfully, for some, the 5 km rule meant that they wouldn’t lose too much time, but they lost skin, that’s for sure. So, who had skin still in the game? Not a Napole yet again caught out. Offered up tea and sympathy. Well, sympathy anyway. What about that finale? It was dramatic. Posel find themselves in the right position. Little have messed it up a little though. They’ve no men left to lead out. It’s picnic trying to do it. Stewart is the man who’s going to sprint on the right hand side. Akaman’s there though as well for Israel. Premier tech. Another big crash behind. Another big crash behind. And it’s Milan now on the left hand side. Luna on the right. In fact, it’s PDA. But look at Milan go. Milan sees the lane in front. Milan and Milan and Milan. Med. It is Milan. And Italy’s jolly giant. Here’s the man. No. No. It looks like it might be Med. We think that it’s Med. Wow. And so it proved to be. The European champion got what he was looking for, possibly not in the circumstances he would have wanted to achieve it. Sprinting is a brutal game and he played it absolutely brilliantly with the cards he had. Superb. Our thoughts of course to those who took a tumble today. Malia taking ahead of Millian Basen. Bit of your top five. I must say the team did a good job after the last five and then uh the real car starts but really difficult to find position was better than I think in the last 2 km I fight back from the from behind to come back in position and I was like all the time in the wind and only with 500 to go from again a bit of slow stream and uh I know uh next to Milan always difficult to beat him but I’m happy uh I can take today my second man in the tour another brutal day the general classification well that of course will be decided ultimately in the mountains but Van Nepole is in charge of that at the moment what an amazing race what brutality we’ve had and our thoughts of of course to those who took a very very hard exit from this race. So what if tomorrow? Well, maybe maybe we might just calm down a bit with a breakaway win. Perhaps it sort of begs it on our road to Hu. 174 km in total with the lumpy stuff at the end. Mountains points up for grabs. Possibly a polka dot jersey by the end of it and a breakaway temptation. Let’s see. It’s certainly on the cards. And boy oh boy do we need a little bit of calm amongst the drama. Virtually no flat land to be dealt with. However, the drama is always guaranteed in this race. Have we had too much? Let’s see how we go tomorrow, shall we? Best of luck to everybody.