It doesn’t seem to be Thomas De Gendt’s Tour, even though he tried again today. “This was my last chance to be in a flight without a win,” he jokes. “Otherwise I couldn’t have done anything for a whole month.”
“I thought it would be nice to survive in that group on the long climb, but they drove so fast. I really refrained from hanging on. In the end I got through it, but that last climb was too steep. . “
When De Gendt is confronted with the 3rd place of Wout van Aert in the daily result, he pauses for a moment. “I saw him pass and then he was still quite fresh. I said that Landa had stopped, but he just drove away from me. It’s a punishment that he survives all those climbs like that.”
Shouldn’t Van Aert retrain as a lap rider after all? “I think he should confirm first and then he can build on that. It may well be that he is super now and that it will never come back. Although I don’t see that happening. But I was also at the top for 3 weeks myself. big round (he made it to the final podium in the 2012 Giro, ed.) and then never again. “
“I don’t think he is in a good team if he wants to develop like this, because there will always be better. Then he better be with another team and give it a try.”
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