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Chris Froome inches closer to fourth title

Updated on: 23 July,2017 01:20 PM IST  |  Marseille (France)
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Chris Froome all but secured a fourth Tour de France title by finishing third in Saturday's 20th stage time-trial in Marseille as Maciej Bodnar took the stage victory

Chris Froome inches  closer to fourth title


Chris Froome all but secured a fourth Tour de France title by finishing third in Saturday's 20th stage time-trial in Marseille as Maciej Bodnar took the stage victory.


Rigoberto Uran moved into second overall at 54 seconds, set to be the tightest winning margin of Froome's four Tour successes, while Romain Bardet held on for third by just one second ahead of Mikel Landa.


"It's incredible, the atmosphere here, it's massive being here in the stadium," said Froome, who will nonetheless finish without a stage win this year. "It's the Tour de France, you can't always win everything," said the Sky team leader. "We had to put in the effort over three weeks and that's what we did."

For Bodnar, it was sweet revenge have come within a few hundred metres of a win on Stage 11, before he was caught by the peloton and Marcel Kittel took the sprint finish. "It's something special for me today. I got more luck than the other stage, I'm really happy about this."

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