Cycling - Tour de France - The 160.5-km Stage 6 from Mulhouse to La Planche des Belles Filles - July 11, 2019 - Team INEOS rider Geraint Thomas of Britain in the peloton. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes
LA PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES, France (Reuters) - Defending champion Geraint Thomas gained time on his rivals in a brutal finish in the sixth stage of the Tour de France as several top guns cracked in the lung-busting ascent to La Planche des Belles Filles on Thursday.
Belgian Dylan Teuns prevailed after a long breakaway at the end of the 160.5-km ride from Mulhouse ahead of Italian Giulio Ciccone, who claimed the overall leader's yellow jersey to follow his first place in the mountains classification at the Giro d'Italia.
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