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Saturday, July 22, 2017
East Oregonian
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Tour de France
Ahead of last Tour fight, Boasson Hagen’s homework pays off
By JOHN LEICESTER
Associated Press
S A L O N - D E -
PROVENCE,
France
— Edvald Boasson Hagen
showed that brawn and speed
don’t guarantee victory at the
Tour de France. Winners do
their homework, too.
Going right around a
roundabout while others
took the left and longer
route proved to be the key
that enabled the Norwegian
to finally win a stage at this
Tour on Friday after two
second-place finishes.
Only Boasson Hagen and
Nikias Arndt took the shorter
route. The Norwegian then elim-
inated the German rider with a
burst of acceleration and sped to
the line in Salon-de Provence.
Arndt placed second, five
seconds back.
Third-placed
Jens
Keukeleire was among those
who went left around the
roundabout in the last three
kilometers (under two miles)
and immediately realized
their mistake, as Boasson
Hagen motored away.
“That’s when it struck me:
We should have taken right,”
Keukeleire said. “He’s one
of those riders, give him 10
meters and he’s gone.”
It was Boasson Hagen’s
third career stage win at the
Tour, after his first two in 2011.
He said he’d studied the finish
and identified the short cut.
“I was hunting for
opportunities, and then the
roundabout arrived,” he said.
“I understood that going right
would be quicker.”
Riding at a leisurely pace
far behind them, race leader
Chris Froome and other top
contenders for the yellow
jersey were happy to let
others contest the victory on
the Tour’s longest stage.
Boasson Hagen was
part of a 20-man group that
Froome and Team Sky gave
freedom to escape from the
peloton because none of
them presented a threat to his
AP Photo/Peter Dejong
Norway’s Edvald Boasson Hagen celebrates as he
crosses the finish line to win the nineteenth stage of
the Tour de France cycling race over 222.5 kilometers
(138.3 miles) with start in Embrun and finish in Salon-
de-Provence, France, Friday, July 21, 2017.
overall lead. After two ener-
gy-sapping days of climbs in
the high Alps, Froome and
his rivals had their sights set
instead on the time trial on
Saturday in Marseille that
will determine the podium
order before the race ends in
Paris on Sunday.
Froome’s group was still
riding as Boasson Hagen
celebrated his win. The
peloton eventually rolled in
more than 12 minutes after
Boasson Hagen claimed the
first stage win for the Dimen-
sion Data team at this tour.
The overall standings
remained unchanged at the top,
with Froome leading French
rider Romain Bardet by 23
seconds and Rigoberto Uran of
Colombia by 29 seconds.
With no major difficulties,
the 222.5-kilometer (138-
mile) stage from Embrun in
the Alps offered no real oppor-
tunity for Froome’s rivals to
claw back time. Instead, they
and Froome let the 20 break-
away riders do the hard graft.
“We could just sit on the
wheels and recover a little
bit,” Froome said. “Everyone
was quite happy to sit back.”
The breakaway group split
again with 20 kilometers (12
miles) left. Boasson Hagen was
among nine riders who ditched
the others with a furious burst,
leaving him in the right group
to contest the stage victory.
But among that leading nine,
everyone but Arndt and
Boasson Hagen then went left
around the roundabout, essen-
tially eliminating themselves
from the running.
On Stage 7, Boasson
Hagen lost to Marcel Kittel
by mere millimeters in a
photo finish at Nuits-Saint-
Georges. He was also second
on Stage 16 and third on
Stages 11 and 14.
“I didn’t have to do a photo
finish this time,” he said. “I
finally got my victory.”
The
22.5
kilometer
(14-mile) time-trial course is
the last significant obstacle
between Froome and his
fourth Tour victory. He needs
to hold only Bardet and Uran
at bay. They could be tempted
into taking greater risks to
make up time on the course
with more than two dozen
bends and a short but very
sharp uphill to the Notre-
Dame de la Garde cathedral,
Marseille’s most famous land-
mark. The start and finish are
both at the Stade Velodrome,
home to the Olympique de
Marseille football club.
BRITISH OPEN: Spieth at 6-under going into weekend
Continued from 1B
AP Photo/Peter Morrison
England’s Richard Bland and his caddie shelter un-
der an umbrella on the 8th fairway during the second
round of the British Open Golf Championship, at Royal
Birkdale, Southport, England, Friday July 21, 2017.
turf to about 18 feet away.
“I mishit the shot, which
is probably why it looked so
gross,” Spieth said. “I hit it low
off the heel, which is easy to
do when you’re trying to carve
a cut. And it just ... one hop,
scooted around the group of
bunkers there, and then it was
obviously fortunate to get all
the way to the green.”
The flight of that 3-wood
looked as ugly as the weather.
The outcome was as bright as
his chances of getting his name
on another major champion-
ship trophy.
Spieth was at 6-under 134.
It was the 12th time he has
been atop the leaderboard at
a major, including the fourth
rounds of the Masters and
U.S. Open that he won in
2015. Spieth is the sole leader
at a major for the first time
since the third round of the
Masters last year, when he was
runner-up to Danny Willett.
“Anytime you’re in the last
group on a weekend in a major
... you get nervous. And I’ll be
feeling it this weekend a bit,”
he said. “But I enjoy it. As long
as I approach it positively and
recognize that this is what you
want to feel because you’re in
the position you want to be in,
then the easier it is to hit solid
shots and to create solid rounds.”
Kuchar played in the
morning in steadily strong
wind, but without rain,
and pieced together a solid
round until a few mistakes
at the end for a 71. He was
at 4-under 136, and it would
have been a good bet that he
would be leading with the
nasty weather that arrived.
“I think that’s what people
enjoy about the British Open
is watching the hard wind, the
rain, the guys just trying to
survive out there,” Kuchar said.
“Today is my day. I get to kick
back in the afternoon and watch
the guys just try to survive.”
He wound up watching
another short-game clinic
from Spieth.
The key to his round came
in the middle, starting with a
10-foot par putt on No. 8 after
he drove into a pot bunker. The
biggest break came at No. 10,
when the rain was pounding
Royal Birkdale. Spieth hit
into another pot bunker off the
tee, could only advance it out
sideways, and came up short
of the green in light rough.
“Massive,” he said about
the chip-in par. “Nothing
said ‘4’ about this hole. I feel
a little guilty about taking 4
on the card.”
And he wasn’t through just
yet. Spieth rolled in a 35-foot
birdie putt across the 11th
green, and then after watching
Henrik Stenson’s tee shot
on the par-3 12th land softly,
Spieth realized he could take
on the flag. He hit 7-iron to
2 feet for another birdie, and
followed that with a beautiful
pitch to tap-in range for par on
the 13th.
Even so, his work is far
from over.
The chasing pack features
U.S. Open champion Brooks
Koepka, who failed to make
a birdie but stayed in the hunt
with 16 pars in a 72, and Ian
Poulter with his newfound
confidence, which is growing
even higher with the support
of the English crowd. Poulter
shot 70.
Not to be overlooked was
Rory McIlroy, who recovered
from a horrific start Thursday
to salvage a 71, and then kept
right on rolling. McIlroy,
who was 5 over through the
opening six holes of the tour-
nament, ran off three birdies
with full control of every shot
on the front nine.
And much like Spieth, he
kept his round together with
crucial par saves early on the
back nine when the wind was at
its worse. McIlroy posted a 68
and was at 1-under 139, only
five shots behind with only five
players in front of him.
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