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Lidl-Trek\u2019s Jonathan Milan won Wednesday\u2019s stage 17 bunch sprint after a crash about 800m from the finish line unseated or held up most of his rivals and reduced the group racing for the win to about 10 riders. With the 50 points he took from the victory and another 11 he collected at an intermediate sprint, he now looks the likely winner of the Tour de France\u2019s green jersey competition.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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He has amassed 312 points in the competition and leads the only rider with a mathematical chance to overtake him, race leader Tadej Poga\u010dar (UAE Team Emirates\u2013XRG), by 72 points. To win the \u0160koda Green rsey, the Slovenian would have to win the two mountain stages (stages 18 and 19) and three of the four intermediate sprints left in the race, and hope that Milan fails to collect any points.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s hard to imagine that Poga\u010dar would risk crashing in the high-speed intermediate sprints to win a prize he doesn\u2019t appear to want. However, Milan still has to survive the approximately 10,000m of climbing in Thursday\u2019s and Friday\u2019s stages in the Alps to claim the green jersey on Sunday in Paris.<\/p>\n

“For sure, it was a tough Tour de France up until now, I have to say, but [for] the green jersey we achieved today 61 points, so I’m really happy for that,” Milan said afterwards. “It was one of our goals in the beginning of today. I think it’s never easy to have a real specific plan and then to achieve it, so I’m really happy for that. In the next days we will try to give our best to take as many points as we can in the intermediate sprints, and then we will see.”<\/p>\n

Asked about competing with Poga\u010dar, Milan said, “With Tadej, he’s a cycling rockstar, so we will see also with the points that he will achieve. From my side, I will just try to give my best to bring this jersey as far as we can.”<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old Italian was fortunate that he was near the front of the peloton when more than a dozen riders hit the deck as the bunch accelerated down the rain-drenched finishing straight. Some of Milan\u2019s sprint rivals, such as Biniam Girmay (Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty), who is third in the green jersey standings with 179 points, were taken down in the crash. Most of the others \u2013 including the only other sprinter to have won two stages in this Tour, Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step) \u2013 were held up by the riders sprawled across the road. That left only a handful of riders left to contest the race, with Jordi Meeus (Red Bull\u2013BORA\u2013hansgrohe) coming closest to depriving Milan of the win. Tobias Lund Andresen (Picnic PostNL) finished third.<\/p>\n

Milan\u2019s victory was a relief for his Lidl-Trek team, who had appeared to miss a big opportunity in Tuesday\u2019s stage 16 to snatch 20 points at an intermediate sprint. The team\u2019s sports directors had apparently failed to recognize the chance for him to join a breakaway group of over 35 riders that formed with about 120km left to ride on the 171.5km course from Montpellier to Mont Ventoux. TNT Sports reported after the stage that, according to the team, Milan had been on a comfort break at the side of the road when the group broke away, and he rejoined the peloton too late to be a part of it. The good news was that no sprinter, or Poga\u010dar, joined the breakaway and the 20 points went to riders in the lead group who didn\u2019t want or need them.<\/p>\n

One rider who will not be in the\u0160koda Green Jersey race \u2013 as he kept insisting he wasn\u2019t \u2013 is Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck), who abandoned the race after stage 15, suffering from\u00a0 pneumonia. He certainly left the Tour with his head held high. He won a stage, finished on the podium twice and wore the yellow jersey twice in the race. And he kept everyone guessing about his green jersey intentions after the team\u2019s primary sprinter, Jasper Philipsen, crashed out on stage 3.<\/p>\n

Only two more stages remain in the race in which a rider could earn 50 green jersey points with a victory, Saturday\u2019s stage 20 and the final stage on Sunday in Paris. However, Saturday\u2019s stage includes four categorized climbs, including a steep category 2 ascent (3.5km @ 9%), and the final stage has three ascents of the C\u00f4te de la Butte Montmartre\u00a0(1.1km @ 5.9%, with a max of 9.6%).<\/p>\n

With many teams still lacking a victory in the race, it seems likely that both stages will be contested by multiple breakaway groups and won by the likes of Wout van Aert (Visma\u2013Lease a Bike) or K\u00e9vin Vauquelin (Ark\u00e9a\u2013B&B Hotels). In fact, if I were to bet on the outcome of that final stage, I\u2019d put my money on the plucky young Frenchman. Vauquelin has had an excellent Tour but risks slipping out of the GC top 10 in the Alps and may therefore want to give his many local fans a gift in Paris.<\/p>\n

But this has been the most dramatic and surprising of Tours, in which anything could happen and did. So I will just keep my money and enjoy the rest of this remarkable race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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