Lenny Martinez outkicked Clément Berthet (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) in a two-man dash to win the Tour du Doubs, taking his second victory in three days following his win at Traditional Grand Besançon Doubs on Friday. The French rider claimed the third win in three days for his Groupama-FDJ squad.
Crossing the road eight seconds, José Manuel Diaz (Burgos-BH) was third.
Diaz ignited the fireworks on the underside of the ultimate steep climb of Larmont with a solo assault. Martinez, Berthet and some extra riders gave chase to lastly join with the Spaniard within three kilometres to go, forming a bunch of round 10 riders together with final yr’s winner Jesus Herrada and his Cofidis teammate Guillaume Martin.
Martinez countered Berthet’s assault and the 2 dropped the opposite two riders with lower than 2km to go. The 2 riders labored collectively on the ultimate sprint to the road till Berthet couldn’t reply’s Martinez acceleration within the last 150 metres.
“We made it three out of three this weekend and I’m so happy with the crew. We actually did an ideal job,” Martinez informed France3. His teammate David Gaudu gained the Tour du Jura on Saturday.
“I believe that with Clément, we have been maybe the 2 strongest. We escaped a number of instances collectively I believe and as soon as it was the fitting one and I informed him that we must always work collectively. After which there you go, Afterwards, within the dash, I did not know what we have been going to do. However at the least we have been going to do one and two and it was necessary to collaborate.”
As soon as once more a significant crash compelled the neutralization of Tour du Doubs, 40km into the race in order that medical personnel might attend to a few injured riders from the Kern Pharma crew. After some 50 minutes, the race was re-started with the climb of Belleherbe faraway from the route.
A breakaway of 12 riders fashioned quickly after and established a most hole of three:50 earlier than the ultimate escapees have been reeled in by a thinned-out area charging up the Larmont.
“Actually, I actually did not really feel good the entire race. The race was neutralized, so there was somewhat break within the race. It is probably not straightforward to get going once more and my legs weren’t responding too effectively, there have been assaults from in all places. It was a little bit of chaos on this race and ultimately, within the final bump, I used to be getting higher and higher, the nearer we received to the road. So there you’ve got it, I am very blissful to get the victory.”
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