Landed from the start of the Reine of the Tour de Switzerland, this Thursday, Romain Grégoire lived a very complicated day. Dispossessed of his yellow jersey on arrival by Kevin Vauquelin, the former leader was only in a hurry after spending the line: recovering and recovering from his ordeal.
“I lost foot fairly quickly, from the first round. I had no more energy at all, so I did what I could. »Leader of the Tour de Switzerland since last Sunday, Romain Grégoire expected to live a complicated day, this Thursday during the 5th stage of the Tour de Switzerland and the meeting of this edition. The young 22-year-old French runner from the Groupama-FDJ team was not mistaken. He did not expect to know the same ordeal.
Distancing from the start of this stage, the great tricolor hope experienced a nightmare until the arrival. “I couldn’t do anything, I was completely dead (…) Valentin (Paret-painter, his team member) helped me limit the breakage on the dish, but I was left to myself in the last ascent (…) The percentages like that, that does not lie,” Advant Grégoire
Eurosport After finishing very far from the best and his compatriot Kevin Vauquelin (3rd), who took advantage of the misfortunes of the former leader to delight his yellow jersey.
Grégoire: “I had not made an illusion”
The bisontin, very happy to have stayed in control so long, had not really planned to keep it longer. “I had not made an illusion for the general classification, I knew it was going to be complicated, even if I thought I would limit the breakage a little better than that. My tour of Switzerland is still successful, with a stage victory. »»
Only one thing concerned him nevertheless after this 5th terrible stage for him: recover as quickly as possible and recover from his little hell of the day. “I’m going to think about the continuation fairly quickly but (I want to recover above all, because there, I am destroyed”. Not to the point of losing a smile nevertheless. Nothing allows to guarantee that Grégoire will not come out very quickly from his box again on this Tour of Switzerland.
