Ce jeudi avait lieu la 5e étape du Tour d'Italie U23. Une nouvelle étape plate de 138 kilomètres pour sprinteurs entre Bergame et Cremone. La dernière occasion pour les sprinteurs de briller avant d'attaquer la montagne vendredi. Paul Magnier (Soudal Quick-Step) double vainqueur d'étape n'a pas réussi à faire le triplé. Le Français n'a pas réussi à bien se placer. Le sprint a été dominé par Steffen De Schuyteneer (Lotto Dstny), qui gagne là sa plus belle victoire. Tim Torn Teutenberg (Lidl-Trek) et Lorenzo Confori (VF Groupe-Bardiani CSF-Faizane) complètent le podium.
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00:00Tim Thorne-Tutenberg's little trick, working on the front, trying to lead this one out
00:06as Soudal Quick-Step look round to see where the red jersey of Paul Magnier is.
00:10He's tucked in a little bit further back, but it's Tim Thorne-Tutenberg who's infiltrated
00:14the Soudal Quick-Step train, just waiting patiently.
00:17And on his wheel, Stefan de Schuttenier of Lotto Destiny.
00:21It's the Schuttenier now on the wheel of Tutenberg.
00:23Tutenberg opens up his sprint.
00:25It's Tutenberg alongside Stefan de Schuttenier and the man from Lotto Destiny, pushing him
00:29hard all the way.
00:30Close on the line, Stefan de Schuttenier puts his arms in the air and just, just getting
00:35to the line of stage five ahead of Tim Thorne-Tutenberg, Conforti also in the mix.
00:41Stefan, that was the plan, lead out man yesterday, sprinter today.
00:45How do you feel?
00:46I'm very happy.
00:48In the beginning of the week, I was not so good.
00:50I was a bit sick, but today, every, it's so nice.
00:59The team helped me today really well in the, in the end also, it was very crazy.
01:05Josh and Matisse did the good work to lead me out and in the end, I'm the winner.
01:11In the sprint, did you realize that Paul Meunier was not exactly next to you?
01:16I didn't see him in the end, but you don't, you don't need to be scared in the, in the
01:24sprint.
01:25It's everyone to each other and it's nice.
01:30You were used to win in Belgium or Netherlands.
01:34What's the feeling of winning at the Giro Next Gen in Italy?
01:37Yeah, it's very special.
01:38It's my first Giro Next Gen and it's very nice.
01:43I enjoy it here.
01:46You come from Gramont, Geraardsbergen, the heart of Flanders.
01:49Are you a typical rider for the classics or typical sprinter?
01:53I think both.
01:56How do you see your future?
01:58Hopefully in the classics and maybe some sprints, we will see what the future will bring.
02:04And in the next few days, how much work do you have to do for Yarno Widar to win the
02:08whole thing?
02:09Yeah, now I'm going to work for Widar, for Yarno, really hard every day to keep the jersey.
02:17Proficiat.
02:18Thank you.
02:19Yarno, with 50, 60 kilometers to go, it looked on TV like you were having fun.
02:25Were you having fun, really?
02:26Oh, yeah.
02:27It was a little bit boring in the day because it's just one pace, flat, there's nothing
02:33going to happen.
02:36It's just between my teammates, a little bit of fun.
02:40It was boring because it was not difficult to defend the jersey.
02:43But when did you have in mind to go for the sprint win today?
02:48Oh, already this morning, I said Stéphane would go for the sprint.
02:52We were really confident that Stéphane could make it in the sprint.
02:57Were you confident?
02:58Do you know him very well?
03:00Did you know he could beat Paul Magnier?
03:03Oh, yeah, of course I know Stéphane really well because I raced with him for five years,
03:13so I know he's fast and I knew he could beat Magnier.
03:19Tomorrow, back to your terrain, mountain stage.
03:23Are you looking forward to it?
03:24What do you expect?
03:25I'm looking forward, of course, but it will be very hard to defend it, but I will try
03:31everything that I can and we will see what the result is.
03:36Have you learned how to open the bottle of Prosecco?
03:42No, not perfectly, but I can.
03:46It's coming.
03:47Thank you.
03:48Paul, all the top sprinters say you can't always win.
03:53Why couldn't you win today?
03:56We did everything for the victory today.
03:59We controlled the whole day.
04:00It was, again, a fast day, but at the end, I didn't really arrive to follow my leadout man.
04:10It was very, very nervous and I had to take a lot of wind in the last kilometers, but
04:16it's my fault.
04:17The team did everything well.
04:19A bit disappointed, but that's the game and I will try to again win a stage in the last two days.
04:28Do you like those straight, flat finishes as much as the uphill finishes?
04:34Uphill finishes make the sprint a bit more with the legs and a bit less positioning.
04:40For sure, I prefer a bit when it's a bit uphill, but I also really like when it's flat also
04:45and straight, but today it didn't work, so merci.