the Belgian Wout van Aertteammate of the new world champion, Remco Evenepoel, ensured after the race that, although he was “fourth at the finish line”, when he crossed the last banner “I don’t know if it was fourth, tenth or fifteenth”because the peloton is chasing all the escapees who stayed in the last meters.
“I crossed the finish line fourth, but I didn’t know if I was tenth or fifteenth. I only saw Christophe (Laporte), who was second, he didn’t know either,” he revealed after the chaotic end of the race.
Van Aert regretted not being third to get on the podium with Evenepoel, teammate, and Laporte, teammate in Jumbo Visma. “It’s a shame, because I would have liked to be with Remco and Christophe on the podium”he said, in any case happy for the “amazing race” produced by Belgium.
“We had an amazing race.. If you prepare the tactic in advance and it works as planned, it’s great”, said Van Aert, sure that his team, with him and Evenepoel, can continue to do “good things in the coming year”.
“I had many riders at my wheel and that gave Remco more space” in the breakaway, so “his chances of winning are higher”, explains the green jersey of the last Tour de France, and silver in this test in Imola (Italy) in 2020.
Source: La Verdad
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