He Belgian Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick Step)second in the time trial of Valladolid and third generally, admitted the “deserved” success of Filippo Ganna and his feeling of “pity” for not being on the podium as a winner.
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The world champion of the specialty reviewed the strategy of Jumbo Visma before the imminent arrival of the important mountain stages.
“I think they told Kuss to do his best not to waste a lot of time because they wanted to play three leaders. His work is very good,” he said.
“It’s a very long Tour and there are many more opportunities, so we will try to do things well and continue to develop. Thinking about how it was last weekend and also today, I think I showed 3 days of a good level. , so we have to keep improving and try to get some time in other stages”, he added.
Evenepoel admitted he was hoping to get more time than Roglic.
“I think 20 seconds is a good time considering I don’t have the best legs in the time trial,” he clarified.
The specialty world champion was happy with the result, admitting the superiority of an unflappable Filippo Ganna.
“I had a hard time after 10 minutes of time, so I think that’s why I lost some time in Pippo Gannin. He is a rider who deserves success on the stage. Overall, I think we should be happy with the overall result, but of course it’s a shame he wasn’t on the podium today,” he explained.
He also positively assessed the half of the Vuelta and acknowledged the good performance of leader Sepp Kuss to successfully defend the red shirt.
“Two second times and the stage victory in his pocket is a good balance for the first 10 days of this Tour. We have to be happy with the overall differences I achieved today and with the strategy Sepp Kuss, which really made a great time trial. Many congratulations to him too,” he stressed.
Source: La Verdad
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