Nikki A Sorensen

Tour de France 2012: stage 15 – as it happened

• (GRS), Thomas Voeckler (EUC), Dries Devenyns (OPQ) and Samuel Dumoulin (COF) have opened a gap of 2min 30sec on the peloton and have well and truly broken the elsatic. On the road between the two groups, Saxo Bank rider Nikki Sorensen is making what looks like a successful attempt to bridge the gap. The gap is now an astounding 6min 18sec with 81 kilometres to go. Curiously, Nikki Sorensen is still trying to bridge the gap, is a Saxobank rider, but his team management presumably think he's not going to be able to do so. They want a sprint finish so that their man Juan Jose Haedo can try to win38pm: Nikki Sorensen has bridged gap to the leaders, which is a heroic effort considering how fast they've been going. As he joins them, a couple of riders look at him as if to say "Where the hell have you come from?" Back in the peloton, his Saxobank team-mates immediately stop leading the pursuit.3.08pm: A couple of riders from German sprinter Andre Greipel's Lotto team join Sky at the front of the peloton to help with pace-making duties, while Nikki Sorensen "wins" the uncontested intermediate sprint further up the road.oeckler's "doomed" (Duncan Watkins) breakaway and the peloton has been extended to 8min 07sec. They won't be caught, so it'll be one of Nikki Sorensen (STB), Pierrick Fedrigo (FDJ), Christian Vande Velde (GRS), Thomas Voeckler (EUC), Dries Devenyns (OPQ) and Samuel Dumoulin (COF) who win this stage.the stage. Voeckler is the winningmost rider in the group and will probably try to make a break for it at some point, while Pierrick Fedrigo and Samuel Dumoulin are the two best sprinters. In the betting, Nikki Sorensen (9-1), Dries Devenyns (13-1) and Christian Vande Velde (13-1) are the outsiders.4.18pm: With the peloton 10 kilometres behind them on the road, the six-man breakaway group is about to pass under the 10-kilomtre kite when Nikki Sorensen makes his move. It's a speculative effort at chancing his arm and he's quickly reeled in by the other five.
• Date: Jul 16, 2012
• Category: Sports
• Source: Google