Christophe Laporte extricates himself from the quagmire and wins Paris-Tours

Affini was the only one able to catch Pedersen’s wheel, after the Goguenne hill, but the Italian wheeler did not take over from the Dane. A profitable strategy from the Dutch team, which prepared the ground for Christophe Laporte. The Varois attacked 33 km from the line, on the coast of the Vau valley, where only Vacek was able to follow him, therefore. The duo returned to the other pair Visma – Lidl, but the two against two did not last, with Affini who quickly gave up, on the Côte de la Duchère, and the two freshest riders gradually took the upper hand and no one saw them again . In Tours, at the end of a wet and muddy edition, Jasper Philipsen controlled the peloton’s sprint and took 3rd place.