The frustration with which Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) hammered the bars as he crossed the finish line in Pau gave a clear indication just how badly his latest Tour de France defeat by Marcel Kittel (Quick Step) had hurt.
The frustration with which Edvald Boasson Hagen (Dimension Data) hammered the bars as he crossed the finish line in Pau gave a clear indication just how badly his latest Tour de France defeat by Marcel Kittel (Quick Step) had hurt.
However, the Norwegian is enjoying a purple patch of sprint success in the 2017 Tour de France that he has not seen on an international level since he won a stage of the 2016 Criterium du Dauphine by out-powering no less a sprinter than Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis) at Belley.
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Eleventh in the chaotic sprint in Vittel, which saw his Dimension Data teammate Mark Cavendish poleaxed by Peter Sagan and crashed out of the race, Boasson Hagen claimed an agonisingly close second behind Kittel in Nuits-Saint-Georg.
After a 10th place in Bergerac, he was back on the stage podium again in Pau, taking third having followed Kittel's back wheel almost into the final metres. Then the German veered towards the centre, Boasson Hagen continued straight on, only to glance right in frustration as both Kittel and Dylan Groenewegen (LottoNl-Jumbo) roared past.
"I would like to have been closer, and I have been as well," he joked, "but I had a perfect lead-out from the team and they did a really good job."
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