BRIDE, France (Reuters) – Thibaut Pinot is heading into the second week of the Tour de France because of the excellent position of the pre-race favorites; however, his Groupama-FDJ team manager is aware that there’s still a protracted manner to move.
“We simply had the aperitif. There’s still the main path and the cheese left,” Marc Madiot told journalists on Sunday.
“It’s quite easy: we’re nine levels into the race, we have now not been through the excessive mountains, and there is one man or woman time trial left, so come see me in 10 days,” he stated while asked if Pinot, a podium finisher in 2014, could win the Tour.
No Frenchman has won the Tour, considering Bernard Hinault claimed the closing of his five titles in 1985, and the house-grown riders struggled to be contenders for the name for the duration of the drug-ravaged technology from the mid-1990s to the past due 2000s.
But now Pinot is 1/3 ordinary, 53 seconds in the back of compatriot Julian Alaphilippe, and ahead of shielding champion Welshman Geraint Thomas and his Ineos group mate Colombian Egan Bernal, after a wonderfully timed assault inside the finale of Saturday’s 8th level saw him gain nearly 1/2 a minute over his predominant competitors.
“What we’ve performed to this point is very good. We are glad we’ve performed even more than we expected, but there are still two weeks of racing left,” said Madiot.
The 29-year-vintage Pinot is one of the excellent climbers globally. He has now won degrees in all three grand excursions and has also claimed the race of his goals, the Giro Di Lombardia’ Monument’ conventional, which is closing in October.
His Groupama-FDJ team has advanced and is now more reputable inside the bunch.
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