Tour de France Femmes 2023 - Lorena Wiebes : "We always believed in it !"
Comme prévu, Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx) s'est imposée ce mardi sur la 3e étape du Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift à l'issue du premier sprint massif de cette 2e édition à Montignac-Lascaux ! Mais on n'est pas passé loin d'une belle surprise, le peloton jouant avec le feu dans les derniers kilomètres en tardant à reprendre l'échappée Julie Van De Velde (Fenix-Deceuninck), auteur d'un superbe numéro en solitaire mais finalement reprise à seulement 150 mètres de la ligne... Un dénouement cruel qui n'a donc pas empêché la championne d'Europe d'assumer son statut de meilleure sprinteuse du monde. Parfaitement emmenée par la maillot jaune Lotte Kopecky en personne, Wiebes a remporté son duel avec Marianne Vos (Team Jumbo-Visma) pour aller décrocher son troisième succès sur la Grande Boucle. Abonnée au podium, Kopecky prend la 3e place et grappille 4 précieuses secondes de bonifications pour conforter sa place de leader du général.
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00:00 Can we say Lauren Avid-Dvivas is the best sprinter in the world?
00:07 Well, I hope so.
00:08 But yeah, every race is a new race, so you never know.
00:12 Can you tell us how impressive it was to be lead out by the yellow jersey?
00:16 Yeah, Lotte did such a good job in the lead out.
00:21 Actually I already suffered in her wheel and she brought me perfectly.
00:25 Can you describe the sprint at the moment you decided to launch?
00:28 It was the perfect move?
00:29 Yeah, the breakaway was of course still gone with one kilometre to go.
00:36 We took the corner good.
00:37 All the time I stayed with Lotte.
00:41 The plan was that she would go and deliver me good and that's exactly how she did.
00:47 I think it was Marianne started the sprint on the right of me and then I was able to
00:54 catch her.
00:56 It was really hard to catch Julie van der Velde.
00:58 Did you fear not sprinting for the win?
01:01 No, we always believed in it.
01:05 We felt it was not really up to us to start the chase because we still had some hard days
01:11 to go and we wanted to not let the other girls go full out.
01:17 Then DSM did that and we helped towards the end when we felt it was really necessary.
01:25 Two-stage win, the yellow jersey, did you ever think having such a great start in the
01:29 Tour de France with SDWorks?
01:31 Yeah, it's a great start.
01:33 We are really happy with this and we hope to continue in this way.
01:37 Thank you Lovana, congrats.
01:38 Thank you.
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