Tour Stage 19 Report: The stage finish in Cahors was expected to be a bunch sprint, but first the break and then Christophe Latour had different ideas. As the escape was being reeled in, Laporte jumped past them and carried on for the much wanted French stage win. Nothing changed on the overall, Jonas Vingegaard still in the lead before Saturday’s time trial. The final kilometre of stage 19Christophe Laporte of Jumbo-Visma won the nineteenth stage of the Tour de France. In the stage from Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors, the Frenchman jumped past a leading group of three in the last kilometre to take the victory. This was the first French stage victory in the 2022 Tour.The jerseys at the start, Jonas Vingegaard has the KOM, but Simon Geschke can still wear itTour boss, Christian Prudhomme: “Curiously, after passing through the departments of Gers and Tarn-et-Garonne, the Tours sojourn in the Lot offers a nod back to the races opening days: the castle of Cayx, located close to Cahors, belongs to the Danish royal family. Among their subjects riding in the peloton, there should be no lack of sprinters who are capable of shining in Cahors.”Stage 19 profileThe peloton left the Pyrenees behind in the nineteenth stage. From Castelnau-Magnoac the route led through the hills of southern France and valley of the River Garonne. In the second half of the stage there were two fourth category climbs, the Cte de cit mdivale de Lauzerte and the Cte de Saint-Dauns. From the…
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