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Amidst the aggressive competition between Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates), Poels emerged victorious, outpacing the GC contenders by six minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thirty-strong breakaway group set the stage for Poels&#8217; victorious ride, with him leaving Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) behind 11km from the finish line on the penultimate climb of the C\u00f4tes des Amerands. The Dutchman&#8217;s decisive move came after a strategic breakaway involving Van Aert, Marc Soler, and Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech). Despite Neilands&#8217; unfortunate crash and Soler falling behind ahead on the penultimate climb, Poels kept his determination intact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poels showcased his superiority on the uphill battle, outperforming Van Aert and pushing forward alone. The remarkable effort led to the 35-year-old cyclist clinching his first <a href=\"http:\/\/letour.fr\">Tour de France<\/a> stage win.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\uddb8\u200d\u2642\ufe0f Wout Poels, once called a super domestique, can now add Tour de France Stage winner to his name. Another breakaway that stayed away, and another battle between GC P1 and P2. <\/p>\n<p>We&#39;re ready for the rest day, but for now enjoy the \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 highlights of stage 15<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDF2023?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TDF2023<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Md3JyPI8hb\">pic.twitter.com\/Md3JyPI8hb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tour de France\u2122 (@LeTour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeTour\/status\/1680650798508777472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His joy was palpable as he shared his emotions. \u201cI always dreamed to win a stage at the Tour. Especially with what happened in the team in the last three weeks with Gino, all the emotions came. It\u2019s just incredible. I won a Monument and now a stage in the Tour. I\u2019m super happy,\u201d exclaimed an ecstatic Poels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His belief in his victory didn&#8217;t solidify until the final kilometre. Poels said, \u201cI just had to keep fighting. I had to go full gas. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His journey to this victory wasn&#8217;t without challenges. &#8220;I got sick at altitude camp, had to skip the Dauphin\u00e9. I went to the Tour of Slovenia. Luckily it went really well and the team took me to the Tour and believed in it. My DS Roman Kreuziger was saying that \u2018ah you\u2019re going to be there into the third week\u2019 and here we are&#8217;,\u201d he reminisced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, despite Poels&#8217; breakaway triumph, the battle for the yellow jersey remained unaffected. Vingegaard managed to retain his slight advantage over Poga\u010dar, with Rodr\u00edguez shedding 38 seconds but remaining in third. Adam Yates is now emerging as a substantial threat, gaining 18 seconds at the line and 1:36 on Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) to secure fourth place, now trailing the Spaniard by just 19 seconds.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Stage 15 results<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Wout Poels (Bahrain Victorious) 4:40:45<\/li>\n<li>Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) + 2:08<\/li>\n<li>Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies) + 3:00<\/li>\n<li>Lawson Craddock (Team Jayco-AlUla) + 3:10<\/li>\n<li>Mikel Landa (Bahrain Victorious) + 3:14<\/li>\n<li>Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) + 3:14<\/li>\n<li>Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) + 3:32<\/li>\n<li>Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) + 3:43<\/li>\n<li>Simon Guglielmi (Ark\u00e9a-Samsic) + 3:59<\/li>\n<li>Warren Barguil (Ark\u00e9a-Samsic) + 4:20<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>GC after stage 15<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) 62:34:17<\/li>\n<li>Tadej Pogacar (UAE 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