“The work pays and the progression continues”
So Kévin, do we savor?
Yeah we savor, there I admit I am a little stone, it makes an adrenaline shot. I think when it will let me go, it will let me go. That is to say that when I'm going to ask myself on the massage table, I will turn completely. It is that happiness, it's almost not too believable, there is so much happening, there is so much support. We see the world agglutinating around me, chanting my name and looking at me with fervor and chills, it gives me even more chills.
The white jersey on the shoulders, does it transcend?
Yeah it transcends and then it is the class in white (laughs). Have a distinctive jersey on the Tour de France It's already incredible, now I'm third as a general, even if it lasts that one day or a week, it's just incredible.
When we find ourselves third as a general, do we not change our objectives? Is that still the stage?
For the moment we want to win a step, we will see how we can do it. It will be on the leg by trapping the leaders or trying to escape, we will see how it will take place. As I said, every day is enough for its pain and we will run day by day. It's a long tour, we don't know how it can happen. Last year it went very well at the beginning and then I fell ill. I take advantage of every day, my legs, because we don't always have the best legs and at times we can have a soft stroke.
I just chatted with Mauro Gianetti, he said to me: “No no Kévin Vauquelin does not epate me, he is where I expected him”
Wouaw, so much the better (laughs). It is good to have people who know the bicycle, even my loved ones, the people with whom I grew up, who are not so surprised as that. It is still reassuring, we tell ourselves that work pays and that progression continues.
“I will thank Christian Prudhomme for doing this to us”
Upon arrival in Caen, Kévin Vauquelin had stars in his eyes, he who was carried during the 33 km of the course by an audience largely acquired to his cause: “I didn't feel my legs. I had a little leg pain but the body, the heart, the lungs were still subject to, it was incredible. These supporters, all the support, it's incredible, I am with angels, thank you all. I did a time that was not bad, I think it was one of my best times and I enjoy the words. once when I looked is not to go too fast at the beginning.
And it is only the beginning for the Norman who will pass on Thursday on his land, and benefits from his Tour de France : “There in the background, with a distinctive jersey, the audience was crazy. I take advantage of every moment, when I say every day is enough for his pain … It is not difficult that I have been for a few days. I heard that Remco had put me 50 seconds, at the beginning I was off to a good start and after here, when we are double Olympic champion, world champion with a list as long as the white jersey. An easy start and he shows that he was present, so well done to him.
