Pointed by finger by Quinn Simmons for taking advantage of a motorcycle to attack Tim Wellens on Sunday, Tim Wellens did not fail to answer him.
The UAE-Emirates team is leaving for a new controversy. Target many attacks due to the relentless domination of Tadej Pogacar and certain amazing performance of its mountain runners, like the Rouler Nils Politt, the Emirati formation saw Tim Wellens being pointed out after his stage victory on Sunday in Carcassonne.
Present in the breakaway, the American Quinn Simmons reproached him for having used the aspiration of a motorcycle to carry his decisive attack about forty kilometers from the finish. “It was the best, at the right time and with the motorcycle”, he launched, ironic, at the microphone of ITV Sport.
“Have you not seen the retransmission?” It’s like that. We saw it a few times on this Tour de France. Sometimes it is you who takes this advantage, but most of the time, it is someone else, he continued. But in the end, we all know. If we are the first to make the gap, we can no longer be caught. We know it will happen, you just have to choose the right time. You always have to be very strong, but it is really a factor that shows that you have to go early in the race. »»
Tim Wellens’ response
A good attack in which the hero of the day took care to respond to Belgian television. “He could have attack himself first. In addition, I do not think I was very helped by the engines ”, he launched.
Tim Wellens was able to count on the support of his compatriots.
“Wellens was strong, but above all more cunning”entrusted Wout Van Aert, Victor Campenaerts adding:
“Honestly, Tim played the intelligence card. He did not make turns in mind, because he was not allowed there, and in the end, he attacked as he had been told in his headset: ‘Attention, the culmination of the course approach’. He rolled at a phenomenal speed. We immediately felt in the descent that we told him: ‘You will not see him again’. ”
