Second real sprint of this Tour de France and first victory for the powerful Italian sprinter Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), which has ahead of the sprint Wout van Aert (Team Visma | Lease a Bike) et l’Australien Kaden Groves (Alpecin-deceuninck). This Saturday, July 12, the joy of training Lidl-Trek was rather contrasted with the fairly complicated day that the French team lived Groupama-FDJwho could not sprint with his sprinter The countryvictim of a puncture in the last kilometers of the race. The general manager of the French team spoke to our microphone in Cyclism’Actu on this frustrating day for Groupama-FDJbut also on their ambitions for the rest of this Tour de France.
VIDEO – Marc Madiot after the arrival of this 8th step at our microphone
“Anyway, if we don't try, we will have nothing …”
“It didn't work at all, but it's the race”begins the general training manager Groupama-FDJ. “Too bad, there were a lot of punctures in the same place, so we can imagine that there may have been nails thrown on the road. It is not terrible. It fucks a day in the air, what. It is a shame. Paul Penhoët was built, so it was over. It was the ideal sprint for him, in false flat rising like that, that was what we could hope for for a long time. At the exit, we are pointing out anyway.
We're going to try to go back, but there are a lot of people who want to go for the escapes, and there are few escapes. So we'll see. Everyone wants to be in front, and then the big ones let nothing pass. So it's complicated. But it's the race. Anyway, if we don't try, we will have nothing. So you have to try, try to be opportunistic, but it's not easy “concludes Marc Madiot to our microphone Cyclism’Actu.
