Egan Bernal winning today's stage 7 at the Tour de Suisse. Nicolas Roche nudged up the standings to 9th overall.
Nicolas
Roche has put in another very solid climbing shift at the Tour de Suisse to
remain in contention overall after the second summit finish of the race.
Team
Ineos leader Egan Bernal held the yellow jersey starting today’s stage 7, some
216.6km from Unterterzen to St Gotthard.
And
just as he had had done yesterday, Bernal attacked the select group with a
couple of kilometres remaining on the final climb and pulled out a gap.
However,
while one of the breakaway men survived out front yesterday to win and relegate
Bernal to 2nd on the stage, today there were no such problems for
the race leader.
The
early breakaway on today’s stage 7 were all caught and Bernal took an excellent
victory at the top of the HC finishing climb.
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In Bernal's wake today Domenico Pozzovivo and Rohan Dennis, both of Bahrain-Merida, proved best of the rest. They finished together some 23 seconds behind Bernal today.
Then came Patrick Konrad (Bora-hansgrohe), Jan Hirt (Astana) and Tiesj Benoot (Lotto-Soudal) in a three-man group 34 seconds down on the winner.
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Nicolas Roche (Team Sunweb) finished in 13th place some 1:06 down on Bernal.
He
was just a few lengths behind his team mate Lennard Kamna, Fabio Aru and Sergio
Henao of UAE Team Emirates and Carlos Betancur (Movistar).
While Roche lost more time to Bernal, he moved up the general classification by one place to 9th.
And the Irish rider is now closing in on a strong overall result if he can maintain it for the remaining two days of racing.
Tomorrow
the riders face a 19.2km flat TT in Goms; a stage that can suit Roche better
than the pure climbers.
The
nine-stage event concludes on Sunday with a brutal 101km stage, again starting
and finishing in Goms.
It
features three HC climbs, the last one followed by 23.5km to the finish, about
half of it downhill.
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