Quotes
Stage 1
11| Pierre GAUTHERAT
Gautherat: “It feels like a victory.”
Pierre Gautherat (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale): “It feels like a victory.”
“It was honestly a wild, chaotic race. With the rain, I’ve never slid around so much in a race. At times, I couldn’t even see the road through my glasses. Riders were crashing everywhere—you really needed some luck out there. I think I rode a perfect race. I always made sure to keep my distance in the sectors when I saw someone who wasn’t too confident on the bike. I tried to ride as clean...
Stage 1
31| Valentin MADOUAS
Madouas: "I’ll be back to win."
Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ): “I’ll be back to win!”
“It was truly a beautiful race—very tough—with lots of punctures and mechanical issues for everyone. It was brutal. I had a flat tire at the worst possible moment, just as the race was splitting apart and the pace was really picking up. I knew it was going to be complicated from there.
I hung on, but I was missing that one last bullet in the final. Of course, I’m a bit...
Stage 1
17| Bastien TRONCHON
Tronchon: "It was a crazy day."
Bastien Tronchon (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale): “It was a crazy day.”
“I immediately felt I had great legs. I was able to recover well after the Ardennes triple-header—it really did me good. I found the punch I had before and had slightly lost. My goal was to anticipate the race a bit and get into a good group early to avoid having to react later. That’s exactly what I managed to do. I was a bit on my own out there, and I had to deal with some bad luck—two front-wheel...
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