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Welsford does it once more after one other good leadout!
Remaining km!
Intermanche take over the entrance for Girmay. He is bumping shoulders to take his teammates’ wheel..
Movistar assaults and Groupama jumps on his wheel.
3km to go. A number of extra twists and turns to come back as Bora takes over the entrance of the sphere.
Bauhaus on Haig’s wheel subsequent to the Bora practice.
5 km to go. Jayco has opted for the proper facet of the street.
Studies that Luke Plapp was additionally concerned within the high-speed crash just a few kilometres in the past.
Ewan is on his teammates’ wheel shut the entrance and Del Toro is following the Australian.
EF Training and Ineos are taking up the entrance with 9km to go.
Massive crash. Astana and Bahrain riders down on the street.
10km to go
Peloton dashing to Campbelltown. Some riders driving within the gravel on the facet of the street to make their option to the entrance.
Groups nonetheless preventing for place. Dsm pushes its option to the entrance, with UAE holding Del Toro secure on the entrance. Bora nonetheless hanging in high 20.
Israel-Premier Tech can also be on the entrance trying to enhance their outcomes after ending second and third yesterday.
Peloton takes the sharp proper flip to plunge down Gorge Highway to Campbelltown!
Del Toro sitting in fourth wheel behind his teammates on the twisty street.
Visma and UAE preventing for management of the proper facet of the peloton.
25km to go
Peloton flying to the end line, groups preventing for place for the upcoming bunch dash.
Welsford and his Bora crew are massed proper behind EF Training on the proper facet of the peloton. Groupama, Astana, UAE are all lined up on the entrance too.
All of the sprinters are being introduced forwards into place with 28km to go, due to the technical twisting, very quick descent of Gorge Highway.
Guillaume Boivin speaking to his director in his Israel-PremierTech crew automotive, and in addition received an ice sock.
Groups organizing on the entrance, the battle for positioning has began.
Right this moment’s end in Campbelltown incorporates a slight rising end with a headwind following a quick descent. In keeping with Robbie McEwen, it’s a troublesome dash to get proper.
Saunders is reeled again after spending greater than 110km within the break. All again collectively inside 31km to go – the calm earlier than the storm, the Gorge descent.
With 46km to go, we’re approaching the 1-minute mark for Saunders. He joined his teammate Burns within the break at first of the stage.
50km to go
Saunders, who races for Group BridgeLane in the course of the season, has a 1:14 lead. BridgeLane, as a UCI Continental Group, can not participate in a WorldTour race.
Saunders took a solo win on the 267-kilometre Powercor Melbourne to Warrnambool final yr.
UAE Group Emirates added one rider to the pacemaking on the entrance of the sphere, becoming a member of BORA and Jayco.
Peloton is single filed, with the hole is at 1:45 with three Jayco riders on the wheel of a Bora rider.
Saunders is now solo with 59km to go. It is the Australian’s first time racing the Tour Down Below.
De Bod and Mariault contest the intermediate dash however the Frenchman was capable of get round him to take the highest factors in bike throw. The duo sat up, shook arms and Saunders went straight on previous them.
4km to go to the second and ultimate intermediate dash in Mount Nice. Saunders, Mariault and De Bod within the break are working nicely collectively, hole at 1:55
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75km to go
Peloton slowly, very slowly, nibbling seconds off the lead of the trio off the entrance.
Jayco-AlUla and BORA-hansgrohe groups every put a rider on the entrance of the sphere to regulate the hole to the break. The trio off the entrance has 2:11 with 79km to go.
“Each dash I strive my finest. I am motivated. All of us count on a bunch dash and, we’ll strive our greatest to make it one higher than the primary time,” runner-up on stage 1 Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious) stated at first of stage 3.
“They’re [BORA-hansgrohe] nonetheless robust, so I count on them to do the perfect lead out. Particularly, I feel this ultimate fits them even higher than the primary one. So, yeah, I count on them to be good. And this time I must be on the wheel of Sam [Welsford] after which hopefully I’ve related legs than the primary day.”
Deja vu yet again. Jayco-AlUla’s Michael Hepburn and BORA-hansgrohe’s Filip Maciejuk are sharing the pacemaking on the entrance of the peloton, as they did in yesterday’s stage. Hole at 2:16 with 90km to go.
Three riders within the break, Saunders, Mariault and De Bod have 2:39 lead with 96km to go.
Battle for the intermediate dash with Mariault who was sitting in third wheel, crossed the road first, adopted by De Bod.
100km to go
Within 2km to go to the primary intermediate dash. Three riders within the break, Mariault, De Bod and Saunders, with a lead of three:04. De Bod and Mariault are the digital leaders on the street.
“It is one other day and we attempt to take pleasure in it right now,” stage 2 winner and present GC chief Del Toro stated earlier than the beginning of stage 3.
“It is a sophisticated stage, however to be trustworthy, I wish to stick with my crew and attempt to do the perfect factor for the ultimate with Alvaro and attempt to keep there secure and in a very good place.”
Job finished for Burns for the day. The Australian sat up, leaving three riders within the break with a 3:17 hole.
Outcomes of second KOM:
1- Luke Burns (Australia), 3 factors
2- Tristan Saunders (Australia), 2 factors
3- Axel Mariault (Cofidis), 1 level
Burns jumps inside 200 meters to go to take high factors of KOM #2 adopted by his teammate Saunders.
Jayco-AlUla and BORA-hansgrohe are controlling the tempo and holding the hole at 2:59. We’re lower than 10km to the second and ultimate KOM of the day. Will Burns and Saunders proceed within the break after the Whispering Wall Climb.
BORA-hansgrohe takes over the pacemaking within the subject with the hole now at 2:48 at 126km to go.
The 2 highest-placed riders within the breakaway are Mariault and De Bod who’re each 11 seconds again from Del Toro. Burns is 4:28 down and Saunders is 5:37 in arrears.
Deep dialog between Burns and Mariault within the break. They now have 2:19 lead on the sphere led by Jayco-AlUla with BORA-hansgrohe behind them – as soon as once more. The crew of the ochre chief’s jersey, UAE Group Emirates is sitting additional again.
133km to go, and the chase group connects with the riders off the entrance. 4 riders within the breakaway: teammate Burns and Saunders, De Bod and Mariault.
Mariault was joined by Stefan de Bod (EF Training-EasyPost) within the chase group, 20 seconds behind, with 136km to go.
139km to go
Burns and Saunders have 1:30 hole. Subject is proud of the composition, and unfold throughout the street.
Mechanical for Casper Pedersen (Soudal Fast-Step) who is looking his crew automotive in the back of the sphere.
A complete of 138 riders signed in for the stage right now as an ailing Oliver Knight (Cofidis) didn’t end the stage yesterday.
Outcomes of first KOM:
1- Luke Burns (Australia), 5 factors
2- Tristan Saunders (Australia), 3 factors
3- Axel Mariault (Cofidis), 2 factors
Burns and Saunders have 45-second hole with Axel Mariault of Cofidis making an attempt to bridge up.
Burns spent a lot of the stage within the break yesterday and took the lead within the KOM classification. A lead he intends to defend, and he has a teammate to assist him right now – 100km out entrance, sit up, go once more – Chasing Tour Down Below KOM factors
Burns is joined by a teammate Tristan Saunders not even a kilometer into the stage.
And Luke Burns (Australia) makes the primary assault. No response from the sphere.
Racing is underway for the longest stage of the Tour Down Below Stage 3 is one for the sprinters with a downhill end. Who would be the quickest right now?
As quickly because the flag drops, the peloton will probably be climbing cat 3 Tea Tree Gully Hill, a 2.1km ascent with 6% common gradient and a ramp of 15.6%.
Stage 3 of the Tour Down Below is about to begin in beneath 10 minutes. The 145.3km route begins in Tea Tree Gully. It tackles the primary climb nearly instantly earlier than travelling into the Barossa’s japanese edge earlier than a speedy end down Gorge Highway and into Campbelltown.
It’s presently 18 C with overcast situations with clouds forecast to clear over the day.
Stage 2 winner Isaac del Toro (UAE Group Emirates) tops the overall classification with a slim 2-second lead on stage 2 runner-up Corbin Sturdy (Israel-Premier Tech). Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty), who completed fourth two days in a row, moved as much as third total, seven seconds in arrears.
20-year-old Del Toro additionally tops the perfect younger rider classification whereas Girmay additionally leads the factors classification.
Welcome to Cyclingnews’ stay protection of stage 3, from Tea Tree Gully to Campbelltown, of the Tour Down Below. The stage begins at 11:10am native time or 12:30am GMT and finishes roughly 4 hours later.
