This Friday, July 11, the runners of this 112nd Tour de France rubbed with the essential ascent of Mûr-de-Bretagne with its terrible slopes (2 km at 7.1 % average slope). Despite an attempt to Remco Evenepoel (Sudal Quick-Step), he is the Slovenian world champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) which has established itself, ahead of Jonas Vingegaard (Team Visma | Lease A Bike) and the British of the training Picnic, Oscar Onley. First French at the top, Kévin Vauquelin finishes 7th in this stage. The 24 -year -old spoke after the finish line.
VIDEO – Kévin Vauquelin with his family during the 6th stage!
“I made such a hard effort at the foot …”
The Normand of training Arkéa B&B Hotels Declared: “Remco (Evenepoel) wanted me to be there, he was afraid I think, because he really rolled the whole bump to take the package. I don't think it was for the stage, but to make deviations to the general. I made such a hard effort. I am in the first group, I think it's satisfactory. After, if I was not Jhonathan Narváez, maybe it could not have done anything else, And we are in the 7th stage, there are 14!
I have to work even more, I still have a walk for a lot of points, so this start of Tour de France must really serve me for the future. Notoriety in the peloton allows me to place myself a little more at the front, so it allows me to be fault with the best. Last year, I couldn't have been there, just because I didn't know how to place myself, huh. Anyway, in a peloton, we can see that the placement is the most important. And so now, afterwards, I just have to work, and playing the leading roles each time. No, his body, he improves. This is why we see Jonas, Remco or even Tadej improving from year to year. They make efforts in the maximum that can never be done in training. The tip of training allows us to do new performance above “concludes Kévin Vauquelin on arrival.
