Le Tour de France à Singapour à l'occasion d'un Critérium organisé ce dimanche. L'épreuve est en effet de retour pour une seconde édition sur un parcours urbain inédit. Le lauréat de la Grande Boucle Jonas Vingegaard ne sera pas de la partie, mais Tadej Pogacar, Jasper Philipsen, Sepp Kuss ou encore Mark Cavendish et Peter Sagan prendront bien le départ. Objectif : promouvoir la petite reine auprès d'un nouveau public, en Asie du Sud-Est. Pour son directeur Christian Prudhomme, l'idée est de "faire rayonner le Tour de France à l'international". Bref, ils s'éclatent bien au Tour de France Prudential Singapore Criterium 2023.
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00:00 I'm looking forward to have some fun, it's my first time in Singapore, my first time
00:16 doing these criteriums after the season.
00:21 I'm looking forward to it, it's going to be fun and good racing and just discovering new
00:28 culture and have a good time.
00:32 Exciting times ahead, ladies and gentlemen, as we move on.
00:39 We adore you all, how does that feel?
00:44 I have the opportunity to wear it another time here in Singapore, so I think it's really
00:58 special and I really want to enjoy this moment.
01:01 First time here in the city and I have to say I'm very surprised by the people and it's
01:07 very beautiful.
01:08 How are you acclimatising?
01:09 How are you getting...
01:10 And I'm happy to be here.
01:11 It's quite special, you see the people come out, they enjoy the place.
01:22 I really enjoy it, I like being in Singapore, it's good to be back.
01:25 It's really an honour, in this race there's so many star riders and to be sitting next
01:33 to them at a pre-race press conference or something like that is already a real privilege.
01:40 I'm a rookie against them, I'm just a new kid to say it like that and they're already
01:47 in the game a really long time.
01:50 Robbie is obviously already retired but had an amazing career and now it's up to me trying
01:56 to do the same.
01:57 So what will happen in one round, it will be a time trial.
02:21 So it's a relay, it's timed.
02:33 Any strategy here Mark at all?
02:36 Focus.
02:37 Mark's ready.
02:38 I was very surprised in the end, the bicycle doesn't break.
03:06 You can win this.
03:19 I took the lightest guy I could find so I hope we can go for it.
03:34 Did you learn anything today from the tactics of Sagan and Cavendish and Froome?
03:40 I was not watching them.
03:51 About the power of Sagan and Cavendish?
03:53 I think so, for us it's difficult but we have Philippe so maybe he can do something better
03:59 for us.
04:00 Good luck.
04:01 Okay guys, you took the victory.
04:19 How do you feel about that?
04:21 It was hard.
04:23 Wait a minute.
04:24 I'm not going to do it.
04:50 Nothing gives them the experience more than actually being able to take part in it themselves.
04:59 You can see them already just sprinting around and having fun.
05:03 That's what bike racing should be like as a kid, just having fun.
05:06 It's super cool, I think if I could do a crit, Froome is waving it up.
05:17 It would be so cool and where we are as well for kids like that to do a crit in this place
05:21 is crazy.
05:22 Drive!
05:22 Drive!