Tour de Suisse: Higuita with yellow into the time trial - Pinot celebrates stage win

Former Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas is about to win the Tour de Suisse for the first time.

Minimal gap for Thomas to Higuita

The Briton from Team Ineos Grenadiers had to take the yellow jersey on the 194.6 kilometre mountain stage from Ambri to Malbun. Tour de Suisse to the Colombian Sergio Higuita of the German Bora-hansgrohe team, but as a strong time trialist he should easily make up the two-second deficit in the final battle against the clock on Sunday.

Pinot takes stage win

Meanwhile, Frenchman Thibaut Pinot won the seventh stage ahead of Spaniard Oscar Rodriguez (Movistar Team) and Kazakh Alexei Lutsenko (Astana Qazaqstan Team).

Higuita finished fourth, eleven seconds behind the ex-Tour-de-France-Meanwhile, the previous overall leader Jakob Fuglsang (Israel - Premier Tech) lost important seconds and the jersey in seventh place. The Dane is now third overall, 19 seconds back. The individual time trial over 25.6 kilometres in Vaduz starts on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the Bora team lost its third rider due to a positive corona test. For the Austrian Marco Haller, the tour was over, after the Russian Aleksandr Vlasov and the German Anton Palzer had already been caught. In total, more than 40 riders have already had to withdraw from the Tour de Suisse due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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