Tour de France finished with traditional bunch sprint on Champs Elysees
NUR-SULTAN – PARIS. KAZINFORM - The 2019 Tour de France finished today with the traditional bunch sprint on the Champs Elysees, won by Caleb Ewan. Before the sprint, Omar Fraile was part of a four-man breakaway that was able to stay in front of the pack until the final lap. Astana Pro Team finished the Tour with two-stage podium finishes, one by Pello Bilbao and one of Alexey Lutsenko, the team’s press office informs.
Kazakh championLutsenko also finished nineteenth in the general classification.
«I think we can be proud of the way we keptfighting in this Tour de France, even after our leader Jakob Fuglsang crashedout of the race. Of course, we had hoped for a stage win and a good resultoverall, but that’s cycling. We showed ourselves and we took every opportunityto attack. Alexey Lutsenko finished in the top 20 of the GC, which is a goodperformance of him. We’ll learn from this Grand Tour and from now on we focuson the next races, so we can continue performing like how we started this season.I’m sure there’s still more to come, as we have very talented riders that areready to work hard for a good result,» said sports director Dmitriy Fofonov.