Froome very close to victory at the end of the 20th stage of the Tour de France

Photo: Claude Paris, Associated Press
The British Chris Froome

Marseille — The British Chris Froome (Sky) confirmed his yellow jersey of the Tour de France, Saturday, in the 20th and penultimate stage on the eve of the arrival in Paris.

The Colombian Rigoberto Uran took over second place in the French Romain Bardet in this step, an against-the-shows of 22.5 kilometers won by the Polish Maciej Bodnar (Bora).
 

Bardet, credited with a chrono very average, has preserved the third place of extreme accuracy. The Spaniard Mikel Landa, lieutenant to Froome in the mountains, closer to 1 second of the French.
 

Before the last long stage of 103 kilometres, between Metz and the Champs-Elysées, Froome above Uran of 54 seconds and Bardet of 2’ 20” general classification unofficial.

Froome, 32 years old, ranked third (6 seconds behind Bodnar) of this against-the-shows, including the arrival and departure were given in a stade Velodrome less filled than expected. At the entrance to the stage, he practically joined Bardet, who had left two minutes before him.
 

The first two places are returned to the riders Polish, as Bodnar has surpassed Michal Kwiatkowski, the team-mate of Froome very valuable in this Tower.

Bodnar, taken in the straight line final of Pau (stage 11) after a long break, won for the first time in the Tour.
 

32-years-old, the team-mate of world champion Peter Sagan is among the best specialists in the ” chrono “. In the past year, it was ranked 6th of the year at the olympic games in Rio and 4th at the World championships in Doha.
 

The last flat stage is generally considered to be a procession to Paris before the final circuit on the Champs-Élysées.
 

In case of victory, Froome will be signing his fourth success from 2013 and closer to the record of five victories held by four riders (Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault, Indurain).