Fifth in the general classification of the Tour de France, Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B & B Hotels) continues to impress this year. A performance that allows its entire team to be pulled up.
For the past two weeks and the departure of the Tour de France from Lille, the Vauquelin Mania has continued to sweep across France. Arrived in full confidence on the French roads after his beautiful second place obtained on the Tour of Switzerland behind the Portuguese Joao Almeida (Uae Team Emirates), Kévin Vauquelin (Arkéa-B & B Hotels) impressed during these first 14th stages.
In the top 6 of the general classification since the 2nd stage, the Frenchman hung on during the three Pyrenean stages in order to keep his place among the cadors of this large 2025 loop. Winner of a stage last year on the Tour but 91st generally on arrival for his first participation, the native of Bayeux (Calvados) took the game to play the general classification this year.
A spotlight on his team
A motivation that allows him but also his whole team to see larger before the last week of the Tour where the Ventoux and the Alps will be on the program before an arrival scheduled for next Sunday on the Champs-Élysées after an unprecedented passage on the large loop on the side of Montmartre: “We really worked a lot. All. We have worked a lot. So work pays. Mentally, we manage to stay in it. It’s just incredible. It pushes everyone up. They push me up. I only think when I tear myself away in the last kilometer, because it is thanks to them that I am there. It is a virtuous circle. We all get fired up ”said the 24 -year -old runner at the Eurosport microphone after the 14th stage on Saturday.
Performances which also make it possible to put a spotlight on the French team, it which is led to disappear at the end of the season due to the withdrawal of its two main sponsors.
