Nouvelle étape de folie sur les routes du Tour de Suisse ! En effet, sur cette 4e étape entre Heiden et Piuro (193,2 km), la bataille s'est déclenchée de très loin, avec une accélération de Joao Almeida à 50 kilomètres de l'arrivée, dans la difficulté majeure du jour. Impressionnant, le Portugais de la formation UAE Team Emirates XRG s'est isolé et est venu s'imposer après un incroyable raid en solitaire. Un temps mis en difficulté, Romain Grégoire (Groupama-FDJ) a réussi à limiter la casse et conserve son maillot jaune. Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B&B Hotels) et Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) ont également réalisé une très belle étape, ce qui les place 2e et 3e au classement général.
Vidéo : Tour de Suisse
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01:22Ciao, congratulations. Thank you. Another win this year. Quite an epic one. This morning when we talk, you seem to didn't really know what to do about that stage.
01:29Maybe you were hiding your strategy like you're used to actually. Not really actually. It was a weird day. Almost two hours for the breakaway to go. So it was super fast. I think we had like 53 average speed or something.
01:4355 in the first hour. Quite impressive.
01:45So yeah, then the breakaway was close to minutes or something. If we had somebody in the front, the idea was maybe to the bridge, you know. But we had nobody so.
01:57So yeah, but we had nothing to lose. So I told them, okay, we can try guys. I feel okay today. And then we did what we had to do and it turned out well. So we can be happy.
02:09What was the moment you decided to, I will go. I told my teammates to go for it.
02:13Yeah, those last 3K was where you can make a difference also. The altitude starts to fill a little bit above 2000 meters.
02:20Unfortunately, it was headwind the whole climb. So it was not an advantage at all. But yeah, we still give it a try. We had nothing to lose again. So it was nice. I'm happy for the stage win. I think we deserve it.
02:31And the balance at the end of the day, you took 40 seconds out of Ben O'Connor and one minute out of Romain Grégoire, who seemed that he won't be able to keep it until the end like that, I think.
02:41So what do you think really now? Because you were a bit like, it wasn't looking good two days ago, you told me. Now, how do you feel?
02:47Yeah, it was definitely really good, but I'm still more than two minutes down. I think it's we need to be real and it's not looking easy to win at all.
02:58Even the podium is looking hard, but again, we have nothing to lose. We're just going to try. And yeah, there's nothing else we can do.
03:05Thank you, Joe. Congratulations on the game. Thank you.
