A sad day for Mauro Gianetti, Tadej Pogacar and the whole team UAE Team Emirates-XRG on that Tour de France with the permanent loss of JOAO ALMEIDA On this 9th stage. After having suffered and hooked for two days following his heavy fall on Friday, the Portuguese was finally forced to abandon Sunday in the middle of the stage, which deprives the yellow jersey of His main lieutenant for the mountain which will barely point the nose from Monday. And Monday, the 10th stage arriving at Mont-Dore promises to be hectic on this July 14 and day of French National Day! The Swiss-Italian Manager of the Emirati training necessarily mentioned at the microphone of Cyclism’Actu This beautiful blue-white-red day to come, as well as all the issues and opponents to monitor for this first mountain battle.
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“July 14 … it's going to be a big challenge, things will be a little clearer on Monday”
“July 14 … It's going to be the big national holiday for France, but also a big party for the bicycle! We arrive at Mont-Dore, it's a nice name, it's for champions. It is an iconic climb for the Tour, a bit like the blackberry-of-Brittany. There can be a lot of things there, and I hope it can be a great victory. I see a complicated and very hard step, the first mountain stage, it will be a big challenge. Things will be a little clearer tomorrow (Monday), because we will see those who are good and those who are not. This is an important step, and everyone is looking forward to it. We have already done a good part of the round. Some say that the tour begins tomorrow, and it is true that we are going to start a different tour of France, but the runners have still left for eight days, there is a lot of fatigue in the legs“said Mauro Gianetti Before evoking the runners who scare him for this stage.
“We are afraid of everyone, it's not just Jonas Vingegaard even if …”
“I have already said it, but we are afraid of everyone. It's not just Jonas Vingegaard, there is also Remco Evenepoel, Vauquelin … After yes, if we look a little story, it's from Vinggegaard that we are most afraid, it's normal. It is 1'17 “Behind, it's a good thing for us, but it remains a runner who has won the turn twice, you have to give him a lot of respect“, he explained with humility and a zest of wooden tongue. The time was in any case not for celebrations on arrival with the abandonment of JOAO ALMEIDA. “Today, I especially feel sorry for the abandonment of Joao Almeida. We lost our lieutenant, 4th in the tour last year. He could have played something, having two runners for the general, it helps in a tactical level. Now we have only one tactic: to make TADEJ POGACAR remain in control of the Tour“, He concluded.
