Jamais Stefan Küng ne s'était imposé sur un Grand Tour en individuel ! C'est maintenant chose faite à l'issue de l'ultime étape du Tour d'Espagne ce dimanche, un chrono tout plat de 24,6 kilomètres dans les rues de Madrid. Le Suisse a largement dominé les débats, puisque son dauphin du jour Primoz Roglic échoue à 31 secondes de lui. C'est aussi sa deuxième victoire cette saison, après son titre national sur la spécialité. Et le rouleur de la Groupama-FDJ apporte par ailleurs un grand bonheur à sa formation française, qui n'avait plus glané de bouquet sur une course de trois semaines depuis le Giro en 2022. Küng en profite également pour engranger de la confiance avant les Mondiaux à domicile.
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00:00Finally, you come a la Vuelta and you are a Grand Tour stage winner.
00:25How was that?
00:26Yeah, it's amazing.
00:27Finally, I've waited, or not waited, but I've been fighting for it for a very long time
00:34and I really wanted that win today and I knew with the parkour you had to go out hard and
00:40just keep it together until the end.
00:42That's what I did.
00:43I suffered a lot today, but I think everyone at the end of this hard Vuelta, and I'm just
00:47so happy that, yeah, I got this win here at the Vuelta, my first Grand Tour stage win
00:53and, yeah, it's been a long time in the making.
00:56Big time gaps.
00:57Is this a masterpiece?
00:58Yeah, I mean, it's always nice if you win with more than half a minute.
01:02It shows that you were absolutely the best.
01:05There was no coincidence today and, yeah, it's really nice and it finally repays all
01:14the work that we do as a team, that we do together with Wilier in developing the new
01:19bike.
01:20Together, also, yeah, we were just working so hard and especially also myself.
01:25I always try to be professional.
01:27I always try to get the maximum out of me and, yeah, it feels good.
01:33It's the money time of Time Trialist, Time Trial today, European Championship, World
01:38Championship at home, Crown of Nations.
01:41Yeah, there is a lot of big individual time trials coming up and when you get the confidence,
01:49you just want to stay on the wave and I also think the Vuelta was for me the best possible
01:54preparation for the home worlds because they're also going to be hard and now it's about
01:59to recover well and the motivation I don't have to look for, it's really, really high
02:06and the confidence is also here so, yeah, I just want to keep it going like this.
02:11And a relief for your team.
02:12It was two and a half years waiting for a Grand Tour stage win.
02:15Yeah, I know things like this are really important also and, yeah, big thanks to the team for
02:19their support through all the years.
02:22They always believed in me and it's nice to pay them back.