La polémique prend de plus en plus d'ampleur. Jonas Vingegaard aurait-il dû rouler pour Wout Van Aert dans les derniers kilomètres de cette 2e étape du Tour de France ? Après quelques heures de silence radio, l'un des deux principaux concernés s'est enfin exprimé. Il s'agit de Jonas Vingegaard, qui s'est expliqué au micro de nos confrères d'AD. "Je pense que j'ai déjà fait quelque chose pour Wout. J'aurais pu penser à moi et rouler avec Pogacar. Donc en quelque sorte, j'ai aidé en ne relayant pas Pogacar", affirme le Danois. "De mon côté, je dois juste me concentrer sur le classement général. Bien sûr, on a différents objectifs et on est tous déçu, moi aussi je le suis, on voulait vraiment que Wout gagne aujourd'hui."
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00:00 But yeah, maybe in some kind of way I lost less seconds than we could have been thinking
00:12 with the bonus seconds.
00:14 So in that case it was good, but of course we came for the win today.
00:19 You gave Taddei Runford's money at the top of the high-ski belt, but you got second there
00:23 and then also Taddei got the third place bonus at the finish line, so it's still better than
00:30 you'd hoped for.
00:31 Yeah, I mean, the worst case scenario would be that he takes 18 seconds and I take nothing.
00:39 Now he took, I don't know, 12 and I took 5, so that's way better of course.
00:46 What about Lefebvre?
00:47 It was really, really impressive.
00:50 He deserved to win.
00:51 It was a good attack and we could not catch him.
00:54 Jonas, what's the conclusion of your own condition after these last two hilly stages?
01:01 The first two hilly stages.
01:04 I'm really happy with how my condition is.
01:07 I am where I want to be.
01:09 What went wrong in this final?
01:10 People are talking that you should have done more for Wout van Aert.
01:14 I think I already did something for Wout.
01:19 I could have been selfish and pulled him with the Pugacar.
01:23 So in that case, I was also kind of helping that I did not pull with Pugacar.
01:34 And yeah, I mean, for me, I only have to focus on the GC and of course we have different
01:42 goals.
01:44 I think we're all super disappointed, me as well, and we really wanted Wout to win today.
01:50 When Tadat Pugacar attacks, how does your legs feel?
01:53 Do you still have something in there or is it on the limit?
01:56 Yeah, I mean, I'm feeling good.
01:58 I'm feeling in good shape and it will be funny to see how it unfolds in the next three weeks.
02:04 Jonas, in Belgian media there is some talks about you not giving all for Wout.
02:09 I think it isn't fair, but what do you think about that?
02:12 Yeah, I think it's also not fair.
02:18 I think I'm already helping in the fact that I'm not pulling with Pugacar.
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