Cycling - La Vuelta 2024 - Eddie Dunbar : "Moments like this don’t come around too often"
Déjà vainqueur il y a 10 jours de ça à Padron, Eddie Dunbar a doublé la mise ce samedi à l'occasion de la 20e étape de La Vuelta. Un grand succès pour l'Irlandais de 28 ans, qui remporte donc cette étape "reine"... et depuis le groupe des favoris. Ayant profité du marquage entre les principaux leaders de la course, Dunbar s'est imposé en solitaire après avoir attaqué à un peu moins de 5 bornes du sommet du célèbre Picon Blanco !
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00:00Congrats guys.
00:10Again mate.
00:13Holy f**k.
00:16F**k.
00:19Yeah, um.
00:29This one definitely feels a bit more sweeter.
00:32I said to a few people after the stage win last week that it was never a way I expected to win a Grand Tour stage.
00:40I always imagined winning on top of a climb, whether it was from a breakaway or GC group.
00:46Yeah, I just felt good that second part today.
00:52I just backed myself in that climb and paced myself really well.
00:57I knew this climb from a few years ago. We did it in Burgos in 2020.
01:02I knew there was parts where it was steep and it leveled out.
01:05It was a bit different to what it showed on the profile.
01:08I just paced it. I rode the steep parts pretty hard and I rode the flat bits really conservative just to make sure I had enough left in the tank.
01:16Tactically, how did you deal with the GC contenders?
01:20Well, at first when Sivakov went on the climb, no one reacted.
01:25Then I tried to follow and I noticed Borat kind of chased him.
01:30So then I just thought, right, there's no point in wasting bullets on a climb like this when you've Picon Blanco to come.
01:36I'm 12 minutes down on GC. I knew I'd get a bit of leeway.
01:40I think they gave me that.
01:43But I'm just super happy that I could hold on today.
01:47The guys did a super job the last few days keeping me out of trouble.
01:51They really backed me.
01:54We only have five guys here finishing the Vuelta, but they all rode superbly.
02:00Is this Vuelta the real beginning of your career?
02:04No, I don't want to say that.
02:07I've had good times and I've had bad times.
02:11This is all part of the process, I think.
02:15There's going to be more ups and there's going to be more downs.
02:18That's just the way life is and I've learned that throughout my career.
02:22But moments like this don't come around too often.
02:25I've had two of them now in the last two weeks.
02:28I'm just looking forward to sharing these moments and celebrating them with friends and family.
02:35Congratulations.