Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) s'est montré fort et entreprenant ce dimanche sur les routes du Tour de France. Alors qu'il avançait dans l'inconnu, lui qui a rarement roulé sur des chemins de pierre, Evenepoel a réussi à suivre toutes les attaques de Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) et s'est même permis d'attaquer à son tour.
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00:00Honestly, not too much.
00:10I felt really good and I was feeling comfortable on the gravel sectors and yeah, I've enjoyed
00:18actually the whole race.
00:20Always out of trouble.
00:22So yeah, actually pretty good day.
00:25So yeah.
00:26Rest day now, it's also a nice feeling.
00:28Yeah, exactly.
00:29I think the only time that I did not get dropped off perfectly by my teammates was the fourth
00:35last sector.
00:36It was actually a sector that I wanted to try to do something myself, but I think maybe
00:42my teammates were just not aggressive enough to put me in the front.
00:46But in the end, everything worked out well.
00:48I kept fighting to come back.
00:51And then on the last sector, Tadej attacked, I attacked myself and Tadej attacked again,
00:56but I was always there.
00:57So yeah, it was actually a very nice race and I think the race could have been decided
01:02with about 80 kilometres to go already, but unfortunately Jonas decided to not ride with
01:07us, which is understandable, but also not understandable.
01:10So yeah, it's a bit of their tactics.
01:12It's that cycling as well.
01:14We just have to accept it.
01:15But I think it was a good day.
01:17Of course, I think we would have signed for this situation before the race.
01:21So everything that still comes towards us is a bonus.
01:27I think now we just have to focus on defending the spot we have and try to end up as high
01:32as possible and try to stay as close as possible to Tadej, which will be very difficult.
01:36But yeah, we will not give up.
01:38And I think today we also showed that shape is there, confidence is there, bike handling
01:42is there.
01:43So yeah, we just have to keep going on this positive flow and then we will see where the
01:48ship will end.
01:49I think Tadej and I were not happy with this, because I think maybe the podium for the Tour
01:52could have been decided today already.
01:54So yeah, like I said, we have to accept race tactics, race situations.
02:00But sometimes you also need the balls to race.
02:02And unfortunately, maybe Jonas didn't have them today.
02:06Like I said, it was the race tactics.
02:09But yeah, I mean, no problem.
02:12The race is still very long.
02:13And I totally accept the reasons why he didn't pull, why he didn't race.
02:21But of course, Tadej and I both like to attack pretty far away from the finish, so we wanted
02:26to continue.
02:27Jonas is sometimes a bit more defensive, but we have to accept it.
02:30And he will have all the good reasons to have a race like this.
02:33So also completely understand why.