Roglic wins Tour mountain stage, Alaphilippe stays in yellow

[ASFN Admin]

ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France (AP) -- Primoz Roglic asserted his Tour de France credentials with a victory in the first mountain stage Tuesday as Julian Alaphilippe kept the race leader's yellow jersey. The 160.5-kilometer (100-mile) trek in the Hautes-Alpes marked the race's first summit finish this year, with a final 7-kilometer climb up to the ski resort where Luis Ocana handed five-time Tour winner Eddy Merckx a resounding defeat back in 1971. Roglic couldn't shake off any of his main rivals on the final ascent but used his power to prevail in the sprint launched by Frenchman Guillaume Martin with 500 meters left.

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