Forcément, au lendemain de la journée noire vécue par Remco Evenepoel, qui a chuté deux fois entre Atripalda et Salerno, il y avait beaucoup de monde en cette fin de matinée autour du bus de la Soudal Quick-Step ! Tous les médias présents sur place attendaient de voir si le premier maillot rose de cette édition 2023 allait prendre le départ ou non, à Naples, de la 6e étape... et c'est dans sa tenue de champion du monde que le Belge est apparu en public, actant ainsi le fait qu'il allait bien continuer le Tour d'Italie. "J'ai une douleur au dos et des ecchymoses", a confié, quelques minutes avant de monter sur le vélo, le coureur de 23 ans au départ de la 6e étape, ce jeudi.
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00:00 1, 2, 3, go!
00:02 Oh, Napoli, make some noise!
00:06 Napoli, up, up, up, up, up, up!
00:08 How are you?
00:10 All good, we had a bit of stress in the evening because I was really...
00:14 I mean, I had a lot of pain in my back.
00:17 Bit the same places as the pain of Lombardia a few years ago, so...
00:22 But I think all good, the first pedal strokes on the bikes felt okay, so I think should be fine for today.
00:28 You reckon the stages of the South of Italy, what do you know of today's climb, today's stage in general?
00:34 Well, the climbs are not the hardest, so that's pretty okay.
00:37 But I think it's a tricky stage with the downhill and with the Amalfi Coast, it's always left and right.
00:42 And if I look over the mountain, it looks a bit cloudy and dark, so it might rain over the mountain.
00:49 But I think it's already good that in the final we will have dry conditions.
00:52 1, 2, 3, go!
00:55 Lined up on the front, that's Jonathan Milan in the Maglia Ciclamino and still with a one-point lead over Caden Groves.
01:01 That's going to be an interesting tussle.
01:03 Thibaut Pinot has got an opportunity to add to his tally in the King of the Mountains.
01:06 And Andreas Legnarsson is rolling off for a second day in pink.
01:11 And for a second day in a row as well, Timon Aaronsman of Ineos Grenadiers is deputizing in the white jersey.
01:19 He actually sits in fourth place in that competition.
01:21 And the last rider over the line has number one on his back and the rainbow bands across his chest.
01:31 [Cheering]
01:32 (whooshing)
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