Grischa Niermann, le directeur sportif de la Visma Lease a Bike de Jonas Vingegaard à l'arrivée de la 10e étape de ce Tour de France 2024.
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00:00Yeah, very, very impressive because he knew he was 35 seconds behind on the bottom of
00:07the climb and he closed in 35 seconds little by little and he really believed in himself
00:12and chapeau.
00:13We've been talking about trash talking and all that in this Tour de France, how much
00:19of a mental advantage would it be for Jonas to get the sprint ahead of Taddeo?
00:24Yeah, I think it will be a very big mental advantage but on the other hand, you said
00:31yourself Pogacar is still 1 minute and 14 ahead, that's a lot of time and there are
00:35also a lot of stages to come but we won a battle today but for sure we didn't win the
00:40Tour de France.
00:41It's been a long way back to get to this point, is it emotional for you guys?
00:47Yeah, of course.
00:48I think it also will be very, very emotional for Jonas himself because he had a very hard
00:52time and he came back and this is the first time you can really show how strong he is
00:58and how strong he did come back.
01:00Do you expect him to get better from here?
01:03Ideally, yes.
01:04Did you expect that from him today?
01:08No, I didn't expect to win the stage today.
01:10We hoped that he would be able to follow Pogacar when he would put in his attack, his expected
01:16attack.
01:17He couldn't follow that but then he came back and crawled back and even won the stage so
01:22I think it's very, very incredible.
01:25Do you think Jonas is better on the uphill than today?
01:32Yeah, but today was better on the steepest, on the hardest climb where he sprinted away
01:36over the top so I think we cannot say anything about the next days, about the next stages
01:43because Jonas won, it's for sure a mental advantage for him today but in the GC we're
01:50still behind Taddei and I didn't see Taddei crack today, I saw a very, very strong Pogacar.
01:55How do you judge Jonas on the descent?
01:57I mean at first it pretty much seemed a little bit faster but then, yeah, was it initially
02:04a bit fear or was it because of the crash history or how do you judge him on that?
02:09I think Jonas is doing really well on the descents but he's a lot lighter than Pogacar
02:14and also again it was not a steep descent, you have to pedal a lot and there Pogacar
02:20gained time, also Jonas knew he had to recover a little bit on the descent because there
02:24was the next climb coming and I think in the end he did exactly the right thing.