Tour de Pologne 2023 - Matej Mohoric still leader of the Tour of Poland : "I'm confident..."
C'était l'heure de vérité sur ce 80e Tour de Pologne ! En effet, cette 6e étape et son contre-la-montre individuel de 16,6km faisait office de juge de paix sur cette course d'une semaine. Et c'est Mattia Cattaneo qui s'est imposé dans les rues de Katowice. L'Italien de la Soudal Quick-Step a bouclé le parcours en 19'10", soit à 51,96 km/h de moyenne. Il a littéralment écrasé le chrono, puiqu'il a devancé Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) de 13" et Geraint Thomas (INEOS Grenadiers) de 14". Les deux coéquipiers chez UAE Team Emirates, Finn Fisher-Black et Tim Wellens, complètent le top 5 du jour. A noter la très belle prestation de Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa Samsic), qui termine 7e à 18".
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04:07 - Mate, I don't know what to start with.
04:09 Probably I will start with a question,
04:10 do you have some kind of national lottery in Slovenia?
04:13 If you do, you should play definitely today,
04:16 you should play.
04:17 - Yeah, it was on the edge, no?
04:20 Hundreds of seconds count at the end,
04:23 but this is the way the professional sport is, no?
04:27 We are all so close together,
04:29 everybody does, looks in every single detail,
04:33 and it's normal that at the end,
04:36 little margin decides, no?
04:37 Like in Formula One,
04:39 every second or every hundredth of a second counts,
04:42 so tomorrow we will try to,
04:44 no, we will make sure that we keep the jersey.
04:47 - Okay, very impressive power management from you,
04:50 because after the first time check,
04:53 we were almost sure that you're out of the competition,
04:56 but you saved the best for the last kilometers.
04:59 - So yeah, every team has special software, no,
05:03 that we use to get the best pacing strategy,
05:06 because you cannot do same power all time trial,
05:09 you need to give the best power when it's the hardest, no?
05:13 Maybe I hold back too much,
05:16 but I had really, really a lot left for the second part,
05:20 on the uphill section next to the airport,
05:22 I was pushing myself to the limit,
05:25 I was going 43, 44 kilometers an hour on the uphill section,
05:29 so I was like, if I lose today,
05:31 then I couldn't do better,
05:33 and also in the corners,
05:35 I pushed myself to don't touch the brakes,
05:38 and I got it, I think, perfect spot on,
05:41 every corner, I don't think I could do much better,
05:45 maybe one or two seconds, like always,
05:47 but it was really, really perfect time trial,
05:50 of course, Zhao is a little bit better,
05:53 also probably spends more time on a time trial bike than me,
05:55 but yeah, I'm just happy today
05:57 that I managed to hold on to the jersey.
06:00 - So the last question you've mentioned, tomorrow,
06:02 it will not be a friendly stage,
06:04 UIA will do everything not to let the break go,
06:07 a very hectic probably, 67 kilometers,
06:12 67 kilometers until the bonus seconds.
06:15 - I have no fear, we have a super strong team,
06:19 we showed it the whole week,
06:21 I will make sure I stay on Almeida's wheel the whole day,
06:23 and if he goes for bonus seconds,
06:25 then I will do my best to beat him in the sprint,
06:30 but I think it will be very difficult for them,
06:33 because, yeah, even if they want to control the stage
06:36 to go for the bonus seconds,
06:37 I'm probably faster in the sprint,
06:39 and yeah, I'm also willing to take some risks tomorrow,
06:42 we worked hard the whole week,
06:45 Zhao has also other goals in the season,
06:47 he needs to go to Vuelta now,
06:48 and this is the big goal of mine,
06:50 to keep the jersey tomorrow and try to win the overall.
06:53 - See you tomorrow, good luck.
06:55 Thank you.