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No Need to Sprint! TdF25-138
Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) had plenty of time to celebrate on his way to winning his first Tour de France stage. He has won several stages in both of the other grand tours, but not here in France. Groves was brought as an insurance policy should what happened to their main sprinter Jasper Philipsen happened. Then the stage winning shifted to his other famous teammateMathieu Van Der Poel, who had to leave the Tour with pneumonia. I'm sure the team thought that was it for stage wins... until today! Groves is seen as a sprinter, but he decided to not leave it to a risky sprint in the rain. So off he went on his own, and that is how he won the third stage for his team, and he was the third one on the team to win a stage as well.