Cycling - Tour de France 2024 - Pavel Sivakov : “A hard day that Tadej Pogacar ended with talent”
Le Français Pavel Sivakov de la formation UAE Team Emirates de Tadej Pogacar à l'arrivée de la 19 e étape de ce Tour de France 2024 à Isola 2000.
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00:00Really, really hard days from the start.
00:06From my perspective, I felt crappy in the first climb.
00:10I was really like, I told the boys, yeah, I'm not in a good one today.
00:14And yeah, I think, again, we did an amazing teamwork.
00:18Then I recovered in the valley and I was actually feeling good in Col de la Bonette.
00:22I just could go one pace, but regular.
00:25And yeah, we wanted to go for the stage today.
00:28But yeah, the front group was really strong.
00:31You could see the names in front.
00:32They did a great ride.
00:35But also I think they had to go really deep to keep that gap.
00:39Also in the last valley, I was like thinking, oh, 350, is Dale going to make it?
00:42And I think with the fatigue that Matteo, yeah, he had to dig really deep to go in the
00:48breakaway, also to stay up there.
00:50And yeah, actually, Mark was telling me in Dauphine, he had the same, like he had five
00:54minutes at the bottom of the last climb and then lost the stage.
00:57So yeah, amazing performance from Taddej and from the team again.
01:01So yeah, what else can I say?
01:03One more stage in the Alps tomorrow.
01:05Any chance of you guys taking it easy, backing off a little bit?
01:08If Taddej is hungry, he just takes it.
01:09There's not much left for anybody else.
01:11I mean, I think tomorrow is going to be like just, yeah, full gas again.
01:18Obviously it's going to be about controlling for just for the yellow jersey and then we
01:22see what happens.
01:24Yeah, obviously, yeah, we have to speak with Taddej, you never know.
01:28But no, I think tomorrow is going to be a good chance for a breakaway.
01:32I don't know.
01:32And finally, what's it like for you personally, Pavel, you've come to this team to assist
01:36and we are witnessing greatness.
01:38He's on the cusp of doing the double for the first time since Pantani.
01:41How does that make you feel?
01:42What's it like being a part of this set-up, witnessing history?
01:45Yeah, I mean, at the moment it's hard to realise, but yeah, it's like you say, part of history.
01:50History is being made at the moment and yeah, I'm really proud to be here.
01:53I think, really grateful to the team to trust me and yeah, just proud to be part of such
01:59a good group of riders and yeah, no, it's just amazing.
02:02I think for me, Taddej is, yeah, one of the best we've ever seen.