Interesting Tour de France Facts
Follow live reaction from the stage 19 of the Tour de France where Matej Mohoric won from the breakaway as Mark Cavendish was made to wait for his chance to break Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour stage victories.
The 207km stage from Mourenx suited a sprint on paper but it would be another day for the escapees as Mohoric won his second stage of the Tour, and third for a Bahrain Victorious team whose hotel was searched by police on Wednesday night as part of an anti-doping investigation.
The Slovenian national champion had been part of a 20-man group who finally managed to distance the peloton decisively inside the final 100km, and he went solo with 26km still to go to take victory by almost a minute from Christophe Laporte.
