L'entrée dans les Pyrénées à l'occasion de cette 5e étape du Tour de France était très attendue, et elle n'a pas déçu ! Réussisant à se glisser dans l'échappée fleuve qui est allée au bout, Jai Hindley (BORA-hangsrohe) s'est logiquement montré le plus fort à l'avant - venant notamment à bout de Giulio Cicconne (Lidl-Trek) et Felix Gall (AG2R Citroën TEam), respectivement 2e et 3e sur la ligne - pour s'offrir à la fois une magnifique victoire en solitaire agrémentée du maillot Jaune à Laruns ! Mais l'énorme coup réalisé par le vainqueur du Giro 2022 a été légèrement éclipsé par la démonstration de Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) dans le Col de Marie Blanque. Le tenant du titre danois s'est envolé à 20 bornes de l'arrivée, laissant sur place un Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) clairement inférieur et qui débourse 1'04" sur la ligne... Un premier grand tournant sur cette 110e Grande Boucle !
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00:02 - No, not really.
00:06 Yeah, I was sort of just like improvising out there
00:08 and enjoying some bike racing
00:09 and I just managed to find myself in that group
00:13 and yeah, I enjoyed it out there today.
00:17 - Yeah, you just won a stage of the Tour de France.
00:19 Can you believe it?
00:20 And you get to wear the yellow jersey.
00:22 - Yeah, it's really incredible, really.
00:25 And yeah, I have no words, really have no words.
00:30 - You had time to enjoy it alone in the lead.
00:34 Did you get some news in your earpiece
00:36 that you were gonna get the yellow jersey?
00:38 - Yeah, I mean, the guys in the radio
00:42 were just screaming about, yeah,
00:45 just ride it to the line and I don't know,
00:48 I couldn't really hear so much what was happening,
00:51 but yeah, I just wanted to gain as much time as possible
00:54 and also the stage win and yeah,
00:59 found myself in the yellow jersey,
01:00 so that's pretty cool too.
01:02 - You've already won the Giro,
01:03 you've already had a taste of pink,
01:06 now it's gonna be yellow.
01:07 When you showed up on the Tour de France,
01:09 did you really have the ambition to try to win it
01:11 and is it still your ambition?
01:13 - Yeah, I mean, I didn't really know what to expect.
01:18 It's my first Tour and I think it's,
01:22 yeah, it's hard to come here
01:23 with such massive ambitions already,
01:26 but yeah, for sure I wanted to come here
01:28 and be competitive and have some form of success
01:33 and yeah, just won a stage at the Tour de France, mate,
01:36 so it's pretty incredible.
01:39 - What does the family think about this, do you think?
01:43 - Yeah, I mean, I don't know, this one's for them.
01:49 My girlfriend as well, all the support,
01:52 everyone, all the fans back home,
01:54 everyone that supports me,
01:57 everyone that supported me my whole career,
01:59 yeah, I'm really thankful for everyone.
02:03 Yeah, it's incredible, you know, I mean,
02:06 everyone, every rider dreams of wearing the Maillot Jaune
02:11 and it's a massive, massive privilege and honor
02:15 and yeah, it's a dream come true, really.
02:19 - Is it something that you had in mind
02:20 when you were a little boy in Australia?
02:23 - Yeah, yeah, I mean, I always watched the Tour
02:26 since I was six years old, you know,
02:28 and I always just dreamed of riding the Tour,
02:32 so to be here and wearing the leader's jersey
02:35 and winning a stage, it's,
02:37 it's ridiculous, I can't believe it, really.
02:42 - Take us through your day, it wasn't,
02:44 I mean, I suppose you were not,
02:46 probably not planning to be in the breakaway,
02:47 but it happened.
02:49 - Yeah, I mean, it really wasn't,
02:51 I wasn't expecting to be in the break
02:53 and I thought it was gonna be a big fight
02:55 and yeah, it was and then, you know,
02:58 I just found myself in there
02:59 and I just made the most of the opportunity
03:02 and initially I just wanted to get time
03:05 on the other GC guys and then,
03:07 yeah, and then the opportunity for the stage
03:10 presented itself and I was all in on this last climb
03:14 and yeah, just happened to take the yellow jersey as well,
03:19 which isn't too shabby, so I can't complain, mate.
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