“It was not the final as I expected it to be”, reacted Wout van Aert after his 3rd place in the 6th stage.
“I felt good and wanted to try to win the stage. But in the final there were still few teams that had men to do the work.”
“There was also a communication error with Christophe Laporte (who counterattacked 2.5km from the finish). He was supposed to keep me in a good position.”
“When we had to shift gears and use Christophe to chase, things went a bit wrong. I was badly positioned in the last 3 kilometers, so I had to waste energy.”
In the sprint for second place, Pedersen was again clearly faster than Van Aert today. How does Van Aert deal with this himself?
“It is clear that my sprint is slightly less than it has already been”, Van Aert is honest.
“I am at the end of a very long and heavy training block. I notice that I lack some freshness in the sprints. That quick start will come back by taking it easy. That will be the case after Paris-Nice.”
