Following two agonising near misses, Swiss Marc Hirschi ultimately promised his inaugural Tour de France triumph, and his first as a specialist, after he finished a yearlong break to choose the 12th point on Thursday. Having finished second at the next phase in third and Nice in the ninth period in Laruns following a very long solo breakaway from the Pyrenees, the prior Under-23 world champion held a bunch of chasers to predominate after a bumpy 218-km conclusion that ended at previous French president Jacques Chirac’s hometown. France’s Pierre Rolland has been moment and Hirschi’s Sunweb team leader Soren Kragh Andersen of Denmark took third position since Slovenian Primoz Roglic kept the overall leader’s yellow jersey.
