Tour de France 2023 - Ben O'Connor : "It's great day for Felix Gall and our Team GA2R Citroën"
L'Australien de la formation AG2R Citroën, Ben O'Connor, à l'arrivée de la 17e étape de ce Tour de France ce mercredi à Courchevel.
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00:00 (chorus singing)
00:02 (chatter)
00:06 - Tristan can send it to us.
00:09 - Oh, just the best.
00:11 So nice to feel good again.
00:12 - Congratulations, Ben.
00:14 - Thank you.
00:15 (chatter)
00:17 - No, I really don't want to do one of the French boys,
00:21 sorry.
00:21 - Ben, what a huge stage for you.
00:24 - Yeah, I mean, I think it was the perfect team race today.
00:28 I think we were amazing.
00:29 I mean, the aim was to be in the break
00:34 and Felix was keen from the start
00:36 to see if he could jump in
00:39 and see if we could actually move up in the GC.
00:42 I don't think we all believed
00:43 that the stage would go to the breakaway,
00:45 but I guess from Notre Dame-de-Pré
00:50 to Meribel, we rode super, super well.
00:53 We had Nantes, we did the descent super fast
00:55 and then, yeah, it was nice to play a part
00:58 in Felix's win today.
01:00 - Can you talk about the work you did in the break?
01:02 It looked like it was massive turns.
01:04 - Yeah, I mean, that was my job.
01:06 He's clearly the guy that's flying the most.
01:08 He had the GC objective too, to gain places
01:11 and put the herd on the other guys.
01:13 And yeah, I just honestly couldn't be more proud
01:16 to play a part in that
01:19 because it's actually a role that I haven't done before
01:22 and I took so much pleasure
01:23 out of reversing roles
01:26 and I really, really loved it today.
01:28 - And you enjoyed that reversing role?
01:30 - Yeah, I mean...
01:31 - Did you prefer it with your reverse?
01:33 - Well, obviously, you always want to win yourself,
01:35 but at the moment, I'm not good enough
01:37 and he's absolutely flying.
01:39 To win like that, you know, chapeau.
01:42 I think we just played as a team perfectly
01:45 and I loved every moment again.
01:48 - I heard you almost cried.
01:50 - Yeah, I mean, it's emotional.
01:52 It's the tour.
01:53 It's been a hard two weeks for me so far.
01:56 So, to finally come good on the hardest stage of the tour
01:59 and then for us to actually win as well,
02:01 I mean, it doesn't really get any better
02:05 and the only other better thing would be me winning.
02:08 But that's not possible,
02:10 so I'm so, so, so happy that Felix has won today.
02:14 Thank you.
02:15 (upbeat music)