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Tour Colombia (2019) Photos; Stage 5: La Union → La Union, 177 km | ||
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| The Stage 5 rollout from La Union before returning for the finish | share this photo | |
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| Early break with dangerous riders including Richard Carapaz (ECU - Movistar Team) and Daniel Felipe Martinez (COL - EF Education First) | share this photo | |
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| Rigoberto Uran (Columbia / Team EF Education First) and Nairo Quintana (Movistar) let their teammates fight it out up the road | share this photo | |
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| Relentless hills today; Rigoberto Uran (Columbia / Team EF Education First) descending | share this photo | |
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| 10 km to go: Daniel Felipe Martinez (COL - EF Education First) and Ivan Sosa (Columbia / Team Sky) off the front in the break that looked like it was going to stick | share this photo | |
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| 5 km to go | share this photo | |
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| Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana) doing monster pulls in the chase to close the gap. Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Deceuninck-QuickStep) and Richard Carapaz (Ecu/Movistar) following the move. | share this photo | |
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| The next group of GC contenders finished 42s back | share this photo | |
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| Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana) caught the two lead riders inside 1 km to go | share this photo | |
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| Five riders led by Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Deceuninck-QuickStep) in the final turns | share this photo | |
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| Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Deceuninck-QuickStep) easily outsprints the climbers | share this photo | |
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| Julian Alaphilippe (Fra/Deceuninck-QuickStep) wins Stage 5 | share this photo | |
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| The official report from Deceuninck-Quickstep: Before the road went up one more time and the riders faced again the 5% average gradient of the 7.4km-long Alto La Union, Alaphilippe accelerated off the front together with Ivan Sosa (Team Sky) and built a ten-second gap over what was left of the escapees’ group. On the toughest segment of the climb, the Colombian got out of the saddle and gained several bike lengths, while an attack from behind saw Daniel Martinez (EF Education First) join him. Julian didn’t panic and rode his own pace, always dangling around 15 seconds behind the newly-formed duo. Together with Richard Carapaz (Movistar) and Miguel Angel Lopez (Astana), the 26-year-old Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider began to make up ground on the fast descent and came back to the duo inside the last kilometer. Despite leading out the sprint, Alaphilippe remained cool as a cucumber and expertly navigated through the final corners, before kicking out with 200 meters to go, on a short uphill drag. As the confetti rained down, Julian triumphantly punched the air to celebrate another victory which confirmed his good early-season form, that so far has netted three wins and three other podiums in less than two weeks of racing. | share this photo | |
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| 2nd Miguel Angel Lopez (Col/Astana), 3rd Richard Carapaz (Ecu/Movistar), 4th Daniel Martinez (Col/EF Education First), 5th Ivan Sosa (Col/Sky) + 6s | share this photo | |
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| Bob Jungels (Luxemburg / Team Deceuninck - Quick Step) was fine with giving up the race leader's jersey to teammate Julian Alaphilippe (France / Team Deceuninck - Quick Step) | share this photo | |
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| Your Stage 5 winner and new race leader, Julian Alaphilippe (France / Team Deceuninck - Quick Step): “I am very happy! Coming here, my goal was to win a stage and I am delighted I could bring another one for the team after those of Alvaro and Bob. It was a very hard day, but we knew it was going to be like this, so that’s why I jumped in the breakaway, where we rode full gas despite many having tired legs after what has been a tough week of racing here”, Julian said following the thrilling stage 5 finale. Just like last year, his victory at the Tour Colombia took Alaphilippe to the top of the general classification, where teammate Bob Jungels sits in fifth place, but despite having the orange jersey on his shoulders, the Frenchman insisted the overall isn’t a priority: “Today, I won with my head and heart after a great effort and I want to enjoy this beautiful moment. I have a few seconds over the next riders in the standings, but I’m not thinking of this now. We’ll see tomorrow what the race will bring and how things will unfold.” | share this photo | |
Tour Colombia (2019) Photos; Stage 5: La Union → La Union, 177 km | ||
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