Tour de France 2023, Izagirre win in Belleville-en-Beaujolais. Vingegaard always has a yellow jersey

A non-trivial escape from afar, a second Spanish (and Basque) victory, a second success in a few days for covidis, one of the Cinderellas of the group and the pride of French cycling for twenty-five years. Small but brave in cycling he can also be beautiful and above all a winner, as he showed on Thursday Ion Izagiri win in Roanne – Belleville en Beaujolaisthe twelfth and complex stage of the 109th round.

Sliding almost stealthily into a breakaway that took nearly 50km of sprinting and counter-sprinting before he could take off, and back after a small crunch, the Basques (who won a stage in the Tour seven years ago and even eleven in the Giro), He separated his breakaway teammate, who single-handedly reached the finish line with a one-minute lead. Behind him is a little glory Thibaut Pinot who returned to the top ten in the general classification, recovering more than three minutes on the yellow jersey fingerguard. Per great effort on the eve of the stage Grand Colombierand is the first of a formidable Alpine trio that will likely decide the rankings.