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Tour De France 2025. Why Lenny Martinez Lost More than the Polka Dot Jersey in the 18th Stage
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After leading the first pass on Thursday, Lenny Martinez finally lost a good part of the mountain ranking points recovered for a can glued earlier in the climb. A gesture broadcast live and widely criticized, which should prevent him from gleaning this dot jersey that he wanted so much.
In the midst of the alpine climb, the polka dot jersey by proxy helped several times from the car to get back to the leading group. A gesture that was not appreciated.
Almost assured of being Yellow Maillot on Sunday, Tadej Pogacar should also wear the polka dot jersey of best climber, at the finish on the Champs-Elysées. The Slovenian can no longer be caught up by Lenny Martinez, and Jonas Vingegaard has to rely on a feat to hope to hair him at the post.
Lenny Martinez, a 22-year-old French cyclist with the Bahrain Victorious team, was fined 8 points and lost his chances of competing for the polka dots jersey with Vingegaard, being caught resorting to the old "sticky bottle" tactic. This old trick explains for itself: it consists of the runner taking water drums from his team's car, but instead of immediately catching them, he grabs the bottle for a few seconds, hanging from the car and benefiti…
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As one Tour reaches its brutal Alpine crescendo, another is about to roll out tomorrow— join Adwitiya for the final mountain stage of the men’s race and the calm-before-the-storm build-up to the women’s on the Friday live blog
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