Ce jeudi débutait le Tour de Norvège avec une première étape très vallonnée. Journée courte cependant avec 142 kilomètres entre Voss et Voss Resort. Arrivée en montée avec 3,9 kilomètres à 5,8% et un dernier kilomètre très dur. Une étape pour des puncheurs rapides à l'image de Wout Van Aert (Visma | Lease a Bike), qui fait son grand retour, de Thibau Nys (Lidl-Trek) en grande forme ou encore d'Axel Laurance (Alpecin-Deceuninck). Malgré quelques difficultés, l'étape s'est jouée dans la dernière bosse et à 700 mètres de l'arrivée Thibau Nys s'est esseulé pour s'imposer devant Adne Holter (Uno-X Mobility) et Axel Laurance.
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00:00 One team that is not basketball.
00:07 Looking forward to this race for a long time already.
00:20 The weather looks promising and the past few weeks have been great.
00:23 The course is nice today, so it could be a nice day.
00:27 Last year you got your first pro victory on a punchy finish in Stavanger.
00:31 How do you feel about today's stage?
00:33 Actually, this should suit me even better than normally.
00:36 If I find the legs today, then it looks quite promising.
00:41 But it will all depend on how I feel today.
00:45 It's something I don't have in hand.
00:48 It will just have to be there and we'll see where we can end.
00:52 This season you also showed great performance on longer climbs.
00:55 Do you feel this is something you are getting progress at?
00:58 And you can look at two more stages as a potential performance?
01:02 Maybe, if I really have the good feeling of the last few weeks.
01:05 It could be quite a good stage for me.
01:08 As I said, I just see where we are for the moment.
01:12 I didn't have the perfect week at home.
01:15 Let's try to turn it around and try to go for the win today.
01:19 [Sounds of a strong wind]
01:27 [Sounds of a strong wind]
01:45 [Sounds of a strong wind]
02:07 [Sounds of a strong wind]
02:14 [Sounds of a strong wind]
02:33 How was this for you guys?
02:35 It's unbelievable. This guy did so much work for me in the past few weeks.
02:39 I was always able to finish it off.
02:42 Today we were close to the 1-2.
02:45 I would have loved to be 1-2 and to see him win after all the work he did for me.
02:50 We have still a lot of time to come and he will get it back for sure.
02:57 It's Riffus.
02:57 (upbeat music)