Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 12
Breaking down how yet another brutally fast and chaotic stage was won
Ion Izagirre, the 34-year-old Basque rider on the French Cofidis team, continued this Tour’s theme of experience winning over youthful exuberance from the breakaways when he dropped an elite front group to solo to victory in the stunningly beautiful Beaujolais wine region.
While the final hour of the race might have appeared somewhat formulaic, it failed…
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