Søren Wærenskjold took the captain’s jersey after a crazy day

søren Wærenskjold is definitely an all-weather guy. Whether in the scorching heat or in a raging storm, the young Norwegian always manages to take advantage of the situation. Under the scorching sun, the stage one winner escaped the dangers of racing in a storm on Thursday morning, before reclaiming the overall leader’s jersey in…

søren Wærenskjold is definitely an all-weather guy. Whether in the scorching heat or in a raging storm, the young Norwegian always manages to take advantage of the situation. Under the scorching sun, the winner of the first stage managed to escape the dangers of racing under the storm on Thursday morning, before regaining the lead in the general classification in the afternoon, during the time trial.

“I’ve never seen that at the Tour Poitou-Charentes, however, I commented on it all,” declared Daniel Mangias from the top of the third podium, in La Roche-Posay. The third day of the Picto-Charentaise event has already been marked by a storm and hurricane during the first half of the day. At 94km between Coussay-les-Bois and La Roche-Posay, round three of the TPC saw a four-man lead with New Zealand’s James Foucher (Bolton), Samuel Revy (Iolo Cometta), Davide Gabourou (Bardiani) and Jean-Louis Le Ni (Nice). metropol).

Shortly after the halfway point, all the riders found themselves caught in a storm with rain, hail and wind. James Foucher, faithful to his tactics of the earlier days to defend the jersey of his best climber, has already let himself loose. His three companions, completely disorganized by the weather conditions, continued to try to resist their pursuers. 10km from the finish, a fall split the peloton into three parts. Jean-Louis Le Nay slid at the final corner and had to let Italy’s Samuel Revy take pole position. Wærenskjold also found himself caught falling in the final kilometre, which thankfully wasn’t too serious. Once again, it was the afternoon time trial that would decide between the general classification contenders.

Coat of arms in ambush

In this game, they were not too numerous to compete with the Norwegian discipline champion. The 22-kilometre course offers long straights and many false flats suitable for true specialists in solo effort: “There were many climbs with passes at the top where you had to put in some watts. It was tough,” Bruno Armerel declared, Time trial winner Also note the gusts of wind at the end of the storm strong enough to disable the competitors, which didn’t stop the Groupama FDJ rider from setting the best time with an impressive average speed of 52.6 km/h!

Søren Wærenskjold would fare no better, conceding 9 seconds to the French. But in the general classification, Bruno Armirael saw that the white jersey of the leader escaped him for 6 small seconds: “We did not come to second place, we dropped the vice-champion of France 2023. It will be complicated, but we will do everything for that.” Try to get the shirt back. Friday’s final stage between Monkotan and Poitiers should be an action-packed one.

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