Tour de France: Buchmann succeeds a sensation in the Pyrenees – THE WORLD

Emanuel Buchmann looked around one last time, then unleashed the Tour rookie with a smile over the finish line. The only 22-year-old German champion has landed his first coup on the big stage after a furious 108-kilometer flight across the Pyrenees. The fourth youngest rider in the peloton took advantage of the non-aggression pact of favorites and finished the ride over the dreaded Tourmalet and five other mountains the strong third place on the eleventh stage of the 102 Tour de France.

” That’s a great feeling “

the day’s victory secured on Wednesday after 188 kilometers from Pau to Cauterets pole Rafal Majka, who in an original eight riders strong breakaway group had the largest reserves. It was followed by Daniel Martin (Ireland / 1: 00 minutes back) and Buchmann (1:23). “That’s a great feeling to be here today as a third party to roll across the finish line. At the Tourmalet I had hoped to continue to come forward, but on the descent I had cramps. Majka was the strongest,” Buchmann said.

Leader Christopher Froome, however renounced after his show from the day before climbing to more attacks, reaching to the side of his remaining rivals with more than five minutes behind the goal. This is Froome, whose coup was registered in La Pierre-Saint-Martin with a mixture of admiration and suspicion continues 2:52 minutes ahead of his pursuers Tejay Van Garderen (USA). Third place was the Colombian Nairo Quintana (3:09). Last year’s winner Vincenzo Nibali lost more seconds.

Photo: Getty Images Rapid descent: The Frenchman Warren Barguil from Team Giant-Alpecin has his way between free-roaming cows on the street railways

The headlines of the day made this time different – for example Buchmann. At temperatures of more than 35 degrees to the Ravensburger sat out the team Bora-argon at the Tour for the first time in scene, after he had been released from his helpers tasks on Wednesday by the sick leave of Captain Dominik mink (stomach problems). Hillside left The 64-kilogram lightweight, which had sensationally won the national championship a week before the Tour, a magnificent impression. Countryman André Greipel, however had after just one day back the green jersey as the most points to the Slovaks Peter Sagan give.

admiration with a certain undertone

The preliminary decision fell on the 17.1 km long climb to the Tourmalet, when Majka deposed and went in alone ride to his third Tour stage win. Buchmann reached third place just two minutes behind the poles to the top of mountain giants, which was happening for the 80th time in Tour history. In the frenzied departure ensured free on the street running cows for tricky situations. “I’m just ramped up the mountains in my rhythm, that has really worked well – only on the descent of the Tourmalet I had cramps,” Buchmann said later

The Team Sky could live well with the outliers, after Froome gala on Tuesday, the British were content with controlling the favorites group. Earlier, the over teams had to deal with the usual suspicions. Ironically, the be flown as high performance doper Lance Armstrong who sets on Thursday in Muret to a charity trip to tour terrain, enlisted as unqualified critics say. “Froome / Porte / Sky are very strong. Too strong to be clean? Do not ask me. I have no evidence,” Armstrong wrote on Twitter.

In the media admiration mixed with a certain tone. “Strikingly” headlined on Wednesday the Tour-central organ “L’Equipe”. In Spain wrote “El Mundo” of a “massacre”, the Froome, with “Tuttosport” in Italy “the Killer”, has done. The tour continues on Thursday with the third and last Pyrenean stage to Plateau de Beille.

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