2nd of the Walloon arrow2nd of Switzerland Tour3rd of French Championships, Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B & B Hotels) is experiencing an extraordinary season. With all these good results, the Norman approaches the Tour de France With full confidence and the desire to do as well as last year, where he won on the second stage. With the new status that is his, the French will carry most of his team's ambitions on his shoulders.
VIDEO – The press conference of Kévin Vauquelin and his team
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Asked about competition on Tour de France, Kévin Vauquelin was quite realistic:“We are on the Tour de France, all the runners who are at the start are in their maximum form of the year so there will be a very homogeneous and very hard level. We will see how the first stages will take place, that's how we feel it and we see how it happens. The year spent, that's how we saw it and it worked, we will see if my status really changed in the escaped. All the runners, there are many very good, records, there are for each runner as long as my arm so if you have to mark all the runners of the peloton, we haven't finished … “
But nevertheless, he still has personal ambitions, however subject to the goodwill of the peloton, and a certain Kévin Vauquelin : “There are very beautiful steps where there is a way to shine but it is a bicycle race, we can not know what can happen on days before, in the morning, during the stage … It is sure that there are goals but there is a peloton, it is he who also decides what the escapes do, what the escaped. The 4th step is a step that I checked, after we will see how to go as and when the first days “.
