MEGEVE, France (Reuters) - Denmark’s Magnus Cort Nielsen won the 10th stage of the Tour de France, a 148.5-km Alpine trek from Morzine, amid a climate activists’ interruption on Tuesday.
The race was stopped for about 10 minutes after half a dozen climate activists tried to block the riders 36 kilometers from the finish.
They were pulled off the road by police and a senior race organizer before the race resumed.
Cort Nielsen prevailed in a nail-biting sprint finish from the day’s breakaway to claim his second career stage win on the Tour after 2018.
Australian Nick Schultz took second and Spain’s Luis Leon Sanchez was third.
Slovenia’s twice defending champion Tadej Pogacar, who has lost two team mates after they left the race following positive COVID-19 tests since the start in Denmark, retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey.
A 25-man breakaway took shape after an extremely fast start, featuring former stage winners Cort Nielsen, Sanchez, Ion Izaguirre, Edvald Boasson Hagen, Philippe Gilbert, Simon Clark, Pierre Rolland and Lennard Kaemna.