Australian cyclists compete in the Tour de France for the first time in five years
Stage 14 is one of the longest stages at Tour de France 2022, with a route of 192.5 km from Saint-Etienne to Mende, France. The crabs have to go through five average mountains, the most difficult is to overcome Cote de la Croix NEUE with an average slope of 10.2% to finish.
When 51km from the destination, Matthews escaped alone, and only Felix Grossschartner, Andreas Kron, Luis Leon Sanchez could chase. But to the last mountain Cote De La La Croix Neu, Australia's acceleration to leave the opponents.
After that, Alberto Bettiol's turn tried to attack the leading position, but quickly gave up. Matthews once again escaped to finish the first ending with a period of 4 hours 30 minutes 53 seconds, leading Bettiol for up to 15 seconds.
Matthews won the fourth tour in his career and was the first victory since he returned to the first and 14th stage of the 2017 tournament. . "I really want to let my daughter know why I am always away from home. Today is the day like that. I want to prove myself not only a crab with the water drawer, but I can also play well at the climbing stage ", I said.
Since leaving Sunweb and returning to Bikexchange-Jayco in early 2021, Matthews has always been appreciated in the tournaments he attended. But this crab rarely won nearly two years ago Tour de France 2022. Victory at Volta A Catalunya in March was the first time he finished the first destination, since Bretagne Classic in August2020.
"I experienced so many ups and downs in my career, like the gladiator, but my wife and daughter still trust me. I was beaten many times, and I stood up every time," Matthews, Matthews, The person who is negotiating to extend with Bikeexchange - Jayco, emphasized.
Yesterday, many crabs did not put the ambition to compete for the top position of the upcoming table that had accelerated from the beginning to the victory. Surprisingly, at the last 10km, when the champions Tadej Pogacar sparked to shorten the gap on the overall board with Jonas Vingegaard - the racer is holding a yellow shirt.
However, these two crabs rolled after Matthews for 12 minutes 34 seconds. But this result does not affect the final ranks. Vingegaard still holds a yellow shirt with a record of 55 hours 31 minutes 1 second, maintaining a distance of 2 minutes 22 seconds with Tadej Pogacar.
The Wout Van Aert of the Jumbo team - Visma still holds a blue shirt with 333 points, far ahead of the person ranked behind Pogacar (164 points). Meanwhile, Simon Geschke - the German racer of the Cofidis team - keeps the red shirt for the climbing king with 46 points.
Today, Tour de France 2022 will continue to race stage 15 with a flat journey of 202.5 km from Rodez to Carcassonne, France.
