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Magnus Cort raises himself out of his saddle. The Cote de Genner Strad is 1.7km in length and he'll soon by securing another KOM point to make it three out of three.
Summary
Stage 3: 182 km, Vejle to Sonderborg
Flat stage set to end in sprint finish
Final day in Denmark
Van Aert in leader's yellow jersey
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get involved Get Involvedpublished at 62km to go
Great question posed by the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team. What do we reckon folks?
The two opening stages in Yorkshire in 2014 were superb as well but the three stages in Denmark really have been something else.
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Sign me up for the Tour's next trip to Denmark.
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End of twitter postCan you believe he is in his last days in his 30s? The Belgian veteran, who is the oldest rider in the race, turns 40 on Tuesday.
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Geraint Thomas now slips to the back of the main bunch. Was that for a mechanical like Peter Sagan? Or a call of nature? Either way he looks comfortable enough.
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Peter Sagan, sporting new specs that look like they could be from the Mission Impossible series of movies, drops back to his team car and waves away a colleague.
Alexis Vuillermoz looks determined to stick with his TotalEnergies team-mate and they now rejoin the back of the peloton.
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The feed bags are out as the team domestiques drop back to the team cars.
I always find taking a load of stuff out of a bag and passing it on to team-mates slightly nervy when you're travelling around 40km/h.
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Magnus Cort's advantage was shredded by that intermediate sprint. He's still got a minute with around 20km to the final climb.
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Could you call that a flat-out sprint? I'm not so sure.
Wout van Aert comes over the line at the intermediate sprint next after Magnus Cort to extend his lead in the green jersey competition.
He's followed by Quick-Step's Fabio Jakobsen, team-mate Christophe Laporte, Peter Sagan and Caleb Ewan.
Postpublished at 91km to go
Intermediate sprint time incoming...
Magnus Cort will take the first 20 points. Wonder if we'll see any fireworks behind when Wout van Aert, Fabio Jakobsen, Caleb Ewan, Peter Sagan and company arrive.
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A little glimpse of veteran Philippe Gilbert at the front of the peloton.
The 39-year-old Belgian rider's best finish at a Tour came in 2011, when he came 38th and won his only stage in the race to date.
No sign of the Ineos Grenadiers, they are tucked into the peloton with a posse of riders surrounding Geraint Thomas.
'I consider myself lucky' - Froomepublished at 95km to go
Image source, Getty ImagesFour-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome looked like he was suffering from a bit of road rash at the end of stage two (see 13:48) but unlike last year when an early crash put him in huge difficulty he reckons all is well.
"I'm not in pain after my crash like last year," Froome said at the start of stage three.
"I think it's always to be expected, the first few road stages of the Tour are always going to be stressful. I took a little tumble towards the finale of yesterday, the crash with 2km to go, but that one I came off pretty lucky, all things considered.
"Not the best night, but it could have been much worse. It could have been like last year, where I was in a lot of pain. This time it was just a few grazes, and that was it. So I consider myself lucky."
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Magnus Cort is just sauntering along as he reaches the sign saying he has an 800m climb for his second KOM point of the day.
He gets up out of his saddle and presses on, giving a fist pump to the fans chanting his name as he crests the Hejlsminde Strand.
Bet he's hardly feeling the affects of the Giro d'Italia on his legs yet.
Postpublished at 105km to go
A few energy drinks and gels being taken on by the riders in the peloton at present who are starting to make slight inroads into the gap to Magnus Cort.
The EF Education-EasyPost rider is approaching the Hejlsminde Strand which is the lowest KOM point of this year's Tour at 40m above sea level.
Cort keen to keep polka-dot jersey?published at 110km to go
Image source, Getty ImagesMagnus Cort still has close to four minutes on a very leisurely peloton as everyone soaks up the atmosphere out on the road.
The main bunch know they should be more than capable of reeling in the Dane later on before a likely sprint, while in turn Cort could yet scoop up a couple more KOM points.
If he were to achieve that on the Cote de Hejlsminde Strand and the Cote de Genner Strand he could end up staying in the polka-dot jersey until stage seven and the finale up La Super Planche des Belles Filles.
Cort's hat is a lovely touch isn't it.
A winning combopublished at 13:55 British Summer Time 3 July 2022
It may be time to wave goodbye to Denmark after this stage but there will be plenty of fond memories of the Scandinavian country for all involved in this year's Tour de France.
The support of the fans out lining the roads has been pretty amazing hasn't it?
A winning combination.
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This earlier. Special, special race this.
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There were a few crashes on stage two including a rather large pile-up with around 2.5km to go.
And it looks like a few riders came out of that in rather better shape than others.
Portuguese climber Ruben Guerreiro will probably be feeling a little sort today.
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