Bardet expects Sunday's Jura marathon to decide the Tour de France

On Friday morning, before the start of stage 7, Romain Bardet (AG2R-La Mondiale) talked with the media at the team bus to preview the tough weekend in the Jura mountains that was coming up. The runner-up of the 2016 Tour de France predicted a major battle, especially during the Tour's Queen stage on Sunday. Ahead of the weekend, Bardet finds himself in seventh position in the general classification, at 47 seconds from Christopher Froome (Sky).

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