![]() “They didn’t overreach themselves,” Dennis said of Sky. The breakaway plan, Danielson said, was to try and get Wiggins and Team Sky to stretch in the early going, creating an opening for Dennis, who won Stage 3 up to Mount Diablo, to attack. This is pretty close to a world tour now.” “It’s not the same Tour of California of nine years ago when two teams were racing each other. “I think the our of California has a lot of tailwind and a lot of good guys going on breakaways,” Danielson said. The breakaways are staying alive, Danielson said, because of two reasons, the strength of the tour and the prevalent tailwinds. “We just have to get through the next two days now and just finish the job.” “There is always the danger of a break and this one had strength. “It was an incredible team effort that put me in that spot,” the 2012 Tour de France winner said. Wiggins’ lead is 30 seconds heading into Saturday’s Stage 7, 88.7 miles from Santa Clarita to downtown Pasadena. Wiggins, who finished fifth, increased his lead by two seconds over Rohan Dennis of Garmin-Sharp, who wound up with the peloton time. and Team Garmin-Sharp, who was the instigator of the breakaway in an effort to take the yellow jersey from Bradley Wiggins, finished third, 41 seconds back. I wanted to try to win.”Ĭhaves, who rides for Orica Greenedge, finished 13 seconds ahead of Spain’s De La Cruz of Team Netapp-Endura. “I worked hard at the beginning of the climb. “I knew they were strong riders,” Chaves said of breaking from David De La Cruz and Tom Danielson in the final miles. It is the third consecutive stage in which a breakaway rider or group has held on to win. Esteban Chaves of Colombia sprinted away from a six-bike breakaway in the final three miles to win Stage 6, a 94.4-mile climb from Santa Clarita to the 7,200-foot Mountain High North Resort in Wrightwood, on Friday. WRIGHTWOOD - Breakaways in pro cycling races are supposed to be futile.Īpparently not in the Amgen Tour of California.
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