Energizing the peloton, Mattéo Vercher (Team TotalEnergies) et Mathieu Burgaudeau (Totalnergies team) were rewarded for the price of combativeness on this 8th stage, won by the powerful Italian runner of the formation Lidl-Trek, Jonathan Milanwho was ahead of the sprint Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) and the Australian training Alpecin-DECEUNINCK, Kaden Groves. The general manager of the training Total energyFrench Jean-René Bernaudeauspoke to our microphone Cyclism’Actu on this stage, and in particular on the performance of its two runners Mattéo Vercher et Mathieu Burgaudeau.
VIDEO – Jean -René Bernaudeau at the microphone of Cyclism'Actu!
“The efforts do not kill …”
“He (Burgaudeau) is not very happy, he wants to show that there is that we do not ask him for anything. We know that he was a good runner two years ago, and we told him, for the selection of the tower where he was a little in balance:” Well, you will be the runner two years ago, because I don't see why you would be less strong. ” So this is not its first quality. Viewed by millions of people, but two falls.
When we make a selection, we tell them: “But frankly, you are not at the end of a career.” On the contrary, Mattéo (Vercher) and Burgaudeau, it is still two winks at the back of the game of the Totalnergies team, which is based on the obsession of the collective, since we do not have a big team. We are a team where there is education, there is a little love, and we are going to combat. And we all promised ourselves, we got into our hands in Lille, to say to ourselves: “We're going to have a great party in Paris to succeed, after having done a successful tour.”
So what is important in the Tour and in Sport is not being frustrated or jaded. There are 21 victories and 23 teams. Some will gain a lot. So let's hopes to do everything to get one. And we have five or six which should allow us to be an actor, with the total team as a main player, and now at the highest level. All I can tell you is that the performance pole of the Totalnergies team managed the peak of the form of the eight runners who are at the start. We don't run after the points. So. So afterwards, the question is: why we? I would have liked two, three other teams to participate. That's it, that's how it is. Because you never know, it can trigger. Just because it was “chapter 2” that it existed. It could have been the start of hostilities. Fortunately, nothing is written in advance “explain Jean-René Bernaudeau to our microphone Cyclism’Actu.
