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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00:03 Lotte, congrats, what a perfect lead out.
00:07 Does it taste like your win personally?
00:11 Yes, to be really honest I don't have so much experience in doing lead outs myself.
00:15 But yeah, having Lorena in your wheel, it's...
00:18 I mean, yeah, you can almost do nothing wrong
00:22 because she's so fast, but I also had a feeling, I just
00:25 trusted my instinct and I had the feeling I have to go now and I just
00:29 I was sprinting and I was like "nobody's coming" and then she came like
00:33 like a rocket. But yeah, it's really nice that Lorena can take the win today.
00:39 Even with this lead out, you're still third of the stage.
00:43 How strong are you?
00:45 Yeah, I'm feeling good.
00:48 How long do you think you will have this
00:51 yellow jersey? How many days do you expect?
00:54 Yeah, that's the question you already asked me already three times, but
00:59 again, I have the same answer, I don't know. We'll see tomorrow. Tomorrow will be
01:03 a very hard day, but yeah, also I feel good so we'll see
01:08 how tomorrow goes.
01:10 One question about the breakaway of Julie van der Velde.
01:12 Lorena told me "I had confidence to sprint for the win" but
01:16 did you fear not winning this stage?
01:19 Yeah, Julie is a very good friend of mine, so somewhere it was really
01:23 heartbreaking that I had to, but yeah, on the other hand I have no choice
01:26 because I'm running for Team SD Berks and then
01:30 the nation doesn't count. But yeah, I'm very happy that she's in the
01:33 Polkadoj jersey, that she has the most combative rider and I think
01:37 she also will be very happy with that.
01:39 Thank you, Lorena. Thank you very much.
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