Key Takeaways: Tour de France Stage 3
Breaking down how a fast, dangerous and controversial bunch sprint was won
Jasper Philipsen won the 2023 Tour de France’s opening sprint stage with an impressive, and crafty, effort inside the final few hundred meters to block out Wout van Aert and hold off a surging Phil Bauhaus and Caleb Ewan, in the center of the Southern French (or Northern Basque) city of Bayonne.
While the fight for the GC took a well-deserved day off, E…
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