Seventh in the Tour de France, Kévin Vauquelin has everything to become the next star of tricolor cycling.
Stage winner last season, Kévin Vauquelin, from the age of 24, has still crossed a milestone this year on
The Tour de France. Eighth on the Champs-Elysées this Sunday, the interested party will have been illustrated until the end to make meritorious and legitimate his beautiful seventh place in the general classification. The success of a team above all according to him.
“” This Tour de France was a summary of my three years spent in the Arkéa-Samsic team then Arkéa-B & B Hotels. It’s not just me because I performed, I build myself with a teamhe judges three weeks of intense efforts. For sponsors, it doesn’t matter whether I am there or not next year, this team is a soul. Even if it is difficult to say for the Norman that I am, it is the Breton team par excellence! “”
In emotion, Kévin Vauquelin thus opened. But no question of saying more. The suspense remaining the following to give to his career. “” I want it to continue, whatever my future, he said about the cohesion of his current training. And next year? We don’t know yet, we discuss … “”
Vauquelin greets “tricolor solidarity”
For Emmanuel Hubert, general manager of the Arkéa-B & B Hotels training, doubt is no longer allowed. “” Today, we are in the beginnings of the advent of a real French champion. His physical qualities, we knew them. The mind has asserted itself day by day. The more it went, the more he wanted to do well and go to the top of the ranking. I think that today, Kévin is ready to go at the top “Exclaims the interested party on the France TV antenna.
Not individualistic for a penny, Kévin Vauquelin, he readily includes all of the tricolor cycling in his success. “” My team supported me as much as possible. At the side of the road, the supporters helped me push me in my entrenchments
“Confides the Norman, before expressing his gratitude towards”
All French runners ». “” There was Clément Berthet who helped me in the last mountain stage. Guillaume Martin returned to me in the peloton. We created links with Julian Alaphilippe last year. It’s just incredible. We really have tricolor solidarity. I was really happy for Valentin (Paretrere) and Jordan (Jeat).
I think that’s how we can get out up. I want to thank them and show the public that we support ourselves inside the peloton. “”