“With this delay, we expect Visma and Vingegaard to attack on Thursday …”
“It is a very nice step for us, a very good performance. Because we expected a little more gap between Tadej and Remco Evenepoel“, Admitted Mauro Gianetti. “But he finally made a very big time, he kept a good pace of departure on arrival. So a nice day for us, we also earn a minute on Vingegaard, it's something important. With this delay, we expect Visma and Vingegaard to attack tomorrow (Thursday). So it's good, but you have to get back on the rest immediately“.
Can this yellow jersey obtained from the 5th day represent a weight and a danger for the future? “”Anyway, we had no choice, because if it was not Tadej, it was another opponent. It is true that it is a little more responsibility, but not beautiful either. Because anyway, when you are on the Tour with Tadej Pogacar, the responsibility is already on us, we saw it the first days. He's the outgoing winner, it's like that. And then it's better to be in front of than to be forced to attack. One minute in advance, it's still very interesting for the moment. We will not necessarily keep the yellow jersey to the end. The most important thing is to keep this advance on Evenepoel and Vingegaard. Afterwards, we don't have to keep yellow every day. We are a team among 22 others, we are going to do our tactic, but the other 22 have other plans, so we have to expect everything“, He put it into perspective.
“Vingegaard? It's surprising, but it doesn't change much”
More than the big time of Pogacarit is above all the underperformance of Awesome Who is on everyone's lips this evening, the Danish being very far from his standards and having confirmed that he had had a bad day. “”It's no secret, normally Vingegaard walks much stronger than that in time. Today, he did not have a very good day. It's surprising yes, but it doesn't change much, it's just one day, not around. We have already seen Jonas do great things in other stages, so we have to stay focused“said Gianettialways very pragmatic.
Another teaching of the day on the French side, the magnificent performance of Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B & B Hotels) in front of his Norman audience which allows him to get on the provisional podium of the Tour de France. But enough to impress the Swiss according to him. “”No, not at all, because I expected it to be at this level for a long time, so I am not surprised. We have already seen him do very good things, even if he was not constant, with ups and downs. Now he is more regular, he knows himself better. What is doing is really great. Bravo to him. If he can be a danger to Tadej? Why not, even if it may still be a little heavy for the high mountain. But you have to be wary of everyone!“, He concluded.
