The team time trial in Perereux on day 3 of the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes was thrilling and delivered with a special format that will also serve as the opener of the Tour de France next month in Barcelona. Netcompany Ineos led at the intermediate checkpoints but Visma Lease a Bike surged to victory after 28.4 kilometres of tactical racing. Matteo Jorgenson claimed the uphill finale for Visma, the American posting a time of 32:52 to take victory by nine seconds over their British rivals. EF Education round out the podium with Alex Baudin defending his yellow and blue leader’s jersey after losing 29 seconds. “Winning as a team is seven times better than winning on your own, because we get the moments right afterwards together which in cycling you don’t often get. It’s a really cool discipline and a really nice day. We lost Wout pretty early, he was not feeling super. Then Ben flatted and almost crashed on the main descent of the day. That was a hairy moment. But I think we ad...
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