After the terrible ascent of Mont Ventoux the day before, it is the capital of Drôme, Valence, which welcomed this Wednesday, July 23, in pouring rain, the runners of this 112nd edition with the second victory on this Tour of the training runner Lidl-TrekItalian Jonathan Milanwho won before Jordi Meeus (Red bull bora-haansgrohe) et Tobias Lund Andresen (PICNIC POSTNL). L'players Groupama-FDJ is one of those who animated this 17th stage of Tour de France Between Bollène and Valence, with Quentin pacherwhich inherited the price of combativeness at the end of this stage. The general manager of French training, Marc Madiotspoke to our microphone Cyclism’Actu On this stage marked by a massive fall in the final …
“These are the runners who race, and there is a risk taking …”
“Regarding the fall of Cyril (Barthe) and Lewis (Askey), we are going to take stock earlier. We are waiting for the doctor who was on the finish line. We will see in the evening how it arises. It slipped, but it was predictable. A massive sprint with turns, roundabouts and rain. Especially rain. We know that there is a lot of white lines. It can not be there for the price of combativeness, we are there to try to win a step. either ready to accept all the conditions, even the most extreme, one way or the other.
Falls are normal that it happens. The course was clean, it was secure. There is no dispute to do at the course of the course. It is a sprint type course. I found it rather well appointed. No, there is nothing to say. Afterwards, it is the runners who race, and there is a risk taking. And when there is risk taking, there is a risk that it falls.
A breakaway, there is always a risk that it will make it. And the risk that it comes in is more important than going to the end. But we know that on this style of step, after two and a half weeks of racing, there is always an opportunity that can arise. It has already happened quite recently. So you always have to try to be at the front, and then, when you are at the front, it's always good for morale, you take advantage of it, and then here it is. If we don't try, and if we are not at the front, and the breakaway goes to the end, if we are not there, we have no chance. We're going to fight, we're going to try to go into the breakaway. The race is not over. There will be options that will arise. After, in the last part of the tower, the mind plays a decisive, important role. So you have to be mobilized and not let yourself go to nonchalance. We are not on Sunday. We're going to go step by step. We are going to do tomorrow, and we will take stock tomorrow evening “concludes Marc Madiotto our microphone Cyclism’Actu.
