L'équipe Visma | Lease a Bike, auteur d'un doublé avec Jonas Vingegaard devant Wout Van Aert sur la 5e et dernière étape ce dimanche du Tour de l'Algarve. Avec un temps de 28 minutes et 25 secondes, à plus de 41 km/h de moyenne, le Danois a impressionné et devance de onze secondes son coéquipier belge, décrochant d'un même coup ses deux premiers succès de la saison : l'étape et le classement général final !
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00:00After the other day, maybe I was doubting a bit more, but I think today I showed my
00:18real me, to be honest, and I'm super happy with how it went, and super happy with the
00:23legs I had today, and yeah, today was a different feeling than I had the other day, to be honest,
00:29and yeah, super happy with the victory, obviously, and with the performance I did.
00:34It's a bit of a relief, though, to show that you didn't have a chance.
00:39Well, I don't know if it was a relief, but at least I'm super happy.
00:43I know this is my level, and yeah, I'm super happy and super proud of my performance today.
00:49It was, I think it was a good time trial for me, and I really enjoyed it out there.
00:56You talked about the change of your preparation.
00:58How did you feel it affected you on that race?
01:00The what, sorry?
01:01The change of your preparation, not going into altitude camp.
01:04Yeah, maybe it was a bit on the first day, maybe, that I needed to get a little bit more
01:11in the rhythm than I normally do, and yeah, today I felt super, super good, and yeah,
01:19I'm really happy and looking forward for the upcoming races as well.
01:24Was it difficult to beat João Almeida, the Portuguese rider?
01:27Yeah, I mean, I was not focusing on beating anyone, I was more focusing on my own race.
01:32I was focusing on optimizing everything for today, optimizing my own performance today,
01:39just doing the best I could, and yeah, I did so, and I'm super happy to do the performance that I did.
01:49What was the process of decision of changing or not changing the bike?
01:53Well, I mean, I think, for me at least, I saw that it was a really short time, so,
02:01to change the bike for me, you would have to be able to push a lot more watts on your normal bike,
02:07because you lose quite a bit of time, so, yeah, in that case, we thought it was better for me
02:12to go on a normal bike.
02:14Good start for a great season?
02:17I hope so, yeah, now getting to victory today is super nice,
02:24and yeah, hopefully it will be a great season, I will do everything I can,
02:29and hopefully also in the next races it will go well for me.
02:32If you can, would you return to Portugal next year to follow Algarve again?
02:38Yeah, I mean, I really enjoyed it here and it was a really nice race,
02:43so, I don't want to rule it out, I really enjoyed my time,
02:48so, it depends on what the goals are next year and everything,
02:53but it could be that I will come back for sure.
02:56Who knows, thank you very much.
02:57Jonas, how was it to beat Wout van Aert today in the time trial?
03:04Yeah, I mean, of course, maybe it was not the Wout that I was thinking about mostly,
03:11but I saw on the television before I started that Wout did a very good time,
03:16so, I knew he would be up there, but I wasn't really focusing on him,
03:21I was focusing more on myself, so to speak, and just to do the best,
03:26and yeah, focusing more on the general classification,
03:30and yeah, of course, if you want to win the general classification,
03:33yeah, you have to go full and don't think about anything else than that.
03:42But it's nice to see you both, you and Wout, together on top today,
03:46this stage.
03:48Yeah, for sure, I mean, I think both Wout and me have had a bit of,
03:53until today, an almost week, so to say, and then today we really showed that,
04:00yeah, that we have the level to still be there,
04:05and I'm super happy for Wout as well, and of course,
04:08I would have liked Wout to win the stage as well.
04:17I'm, of course, very, very happy.
04:20It was a very good day for me, for the team.
04:23Of course, I'm very happy to take the overall victory,
04:26and take the revenge from the other day.
04:29So, of course, I'm super happy and super proud.
04:34My daughter said earlier today that I had to win today,
04:38so that gave me extra motivation to win for her.
04:41You still have big wings.
04:43What is your opinion about this Krono?
04:46About what, sorry?
04:47About this Krono, this TT.
04:49Oh, it was a very nice TT.
04:51I really enjoyed it today, of course.
04:54You want the same next year?
04:56Yeah, I mean, it was a nice TT, and yeah, I always like TTs like this,
05:01and of course, it also suits me well, and it depends on whether you have good legs or not.
05:07I mean, if you don't have great legs, then it's also not a nice TT,
05:11then actually the opposite.
05:13So, today I had great legs, and I'm happy to finish it off.
05:18Do you feel confident for the season?
05:20Yeah, I mean, as I said before, I'm feeling good,
05:24and I was very happy to do very, very well today.
05:29I think I did a very, very good time trial,
05:31and yeah, I'm super happy and super proud,
05:34and looking forward to the next part of the season.