It’s not every day you get to win a stage in a three-week grand cycling tour, especially in tour de france, and proof of this is what an experienced cyclist wants Victor Campenaerts (32 years old) He did not achieve it until this Thursday, during the last four days of the Tour and the last day in theory where the three big favorites would let the rest of the platoon move easily.
That’s why the cyclist Hobokendouble European time trial champion and hour record holder in 2019, the moment he crossed the finish line at Barcelona She broke down in tears, and she did so while connecting on a video call with her husband and her newborn baby.
His son was born in Granada while he was concentrating
Later, already in the mixed zone, Campenaerts admitted that “after the Classics, I went through a very difficult period. I had a verbal agreement with the team to extend my contract and they ignored me for a long time (in fact it was not renewed and his contract with him Lotto Dstny expires this year). My boyfriend, who supports me all the time, is a pillar in my career, he gave birth to my son when we were in the camp at high altitude” (in fact his son Gustaaf was born at the foot of Sierra Nevada), added later that I suffered “many years to achieve this victory in the Tour, I sacrificed a lot in the high concentration of altitude, but everything was paid by seeing the blue eyes of my son.”
Campenaerts now added his second victory in a great cycling tour after the Giro, but nothing like winning the mother of all cycling races: “It’s something huge. The Tour is one of the most important sporting events in the world, to be able to Being here is a reward that finishing it is a goal and if you win a stage, it’s an incredible moment.”
And, a moment later, the sports manager Arjen Livyns praised the success of Campenaerts by pointing out from his X account “moving to Spain during the winter, cold baths every morning, skates, his girlfriend who sold her business to be with him, pregnant and went to a camp of nine weeks, first child, strong mentally and physically.
Source: La Verdad
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