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PARIS, FRANCE (SNN-TV) – Belgian rider Jasper Philipsen won a mass sprint to earn a second straight stage victory at the Tour de France today, while Adam Yates kept the race leader’s yellow jersey heading into the Pyrenees mountains.
Philipsen followed up his win on yesterday’s third stage and was once again expertly helped into position to attack by his teammate and countryman Mathieu van der Poel.
German rider Phil Bauhaus was third to make it the same top three finishers as yesterday. Several riders behind them crashed as they jostled for position on the final straight.
Stage 5 will begin tomorrow morning in the Pyrenees mountains around 10:35am.
