A day spent cycling through historic World War I battlefields will very likely end in a bunch sprint.
Winner: Elia Viviani
Hostilities in World War I greatly damaged Reims. German bombardment and a subsequent fire in 1914 did severe damage to the cathedral. The ruined cathedral became one of the central images of anti-German propaganda produced in France during the war, which presented it, along with the ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres and the University Library in Louvain, as evidence that German aggression targeted cultural landmarks of European civilization.
During World War II the city suffered additional damage. But in Reims, at 2:41 on the morning of 7 May 1945, General Eisenhower and the Allies received the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht. General Alfred Jodl, German Chief-of-Staff, signed the surrender at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) as the representative for German President Karl Dönitz.
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Caleb Ewan
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I just recently heard about the damage to Reims cathedral in comparison to what happened to Notre Dame de Paris and how these beautiful monuments can be restored.
About the race, Caleb Ewan for me too, I think he saved his legs today to focus on this one.
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Elia Viviani
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