Green jersey watch - it should be almost tied up now for Mads P
Assuming tomorrow's intermediate doesn't come into play - which is the other side of this:
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Sunday's Paris stage is no longer classified as a sprint stage, it's coefficient 2, so it's only 50 points on the finish line:
road stages with slightly rolling terrain (art.22-coeff. 2):
50-30-20-18-16-14-12-10-8-7-6-5- 4-3-2 points to the first 15 riders
Intermediate sprint points:
at each intermediate sprint, 25-20-16-14-12-10-8-7- 6-5-4-3-2-1 points to the first 15 riders;
Girmay is definitely out of it now
Mads leads Philipsen by 57 points
So if - hypothetically - Philipsen took the intermediate sprint on Sunday and Mads P was second, Philipsen could win the stage with Mads out of the top 15 (null point) and Mads would still win green.
Philipsen
must win the stage and score
seven more points in the intermediate than Mads scores in both intermediate and stage
Another way of putting it is that Mads P needs just 18 points on Sunday to be mathematically certain of winning the green, should Philipsent win both the intermediate and stage
