Tour de France 2023, Izagirre wins in Belleville-en-Beaujolais. Vingegaard always in the yellow jersey – Corriere.it

Non-trivial escape from afar, second Spanish (and Basque) victory, second success in a few days for the Cofidis, one of the group’s Cinderellas and the pride of French cycling for twenty-five years. Small but courageous in cycling he can also be beautiful and above all a winner, as he demonstrated on Thursday Ion Izagirre winning the Roanne – Belleville-en-Beaujolaistwelfth and complicated stage of Tour 109.

Slipping almost stealthily into a breakaway that took almost 50 kilometers of ferocious sprints and counter-sprints before being able to take off, returning after a small crisis, the Basque (who had won a stage in the Tour seven years ago and even eleven in the Giro) , he detached his fellow breakaway arriving all alone at the finish line with a one minute lead. Behind him little glory for Thibaut Pinot who returned to the top ten in the general classification, recovering over three minutes on the yellow jersey Vingegaard. For all a big effort on the eve of the stage Grand Colombierthe first of the formidable alpine triptych that will probably decide the ranking.