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Tour de France stage 3: Tim Merlier delivers win in Dunkerque on messy flat stage scattered with crashes

Soudal Quick-Step team's Belgian rider Tim Merlier (C) sprints to the finish line to win ahead of Lidl - Trek team's Italian rider Jonathan Milan (R) placing second and Bahrain - Victorious team's German rider Phil Bauhaus (L) placing third in the 3rd stage of the 112th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 178.3 km between Valenciennes and Dunkerque (Dunkirk), Northern France, on July 7, 2025. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP) (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)

Soudal-QuickStep’s Tim Merlier sprinted to victory on a crash-affected stage 3 of the Tour de France, just beating Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) in a photo finish as the pair were separated by only centimetres at the finish.

Merlier and Milan were among the survivors of a tense finale, which saw two crashes in the final 3km, after sprint favourite Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) had already crashed out earlier in the stage.

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