Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Frank van den Broek loved his day within the inexperienced jersey of the Tour de France. He advised this after the second stage to CyclingFlash“I additionally obtained a number of compliments from the peloton,” mentioned the 23-year-old rider.
Van den Broek misplaced his inexperienced jersey, however hoped to maintain the white jersey, in order that he might journey in it too. Nonetheless, that didn’t work out. “I did not have the power anymore”, mentioned the rider of dsm-firmenich PostNL, who helped Romain Bardet to the primary yellow jersey on Saturday. However should not the Frenchman have given the yellow jersey in Rimini to his younger teammate? “I do not assume so. This was his solely probability to take the yellow jersey. I believe he simply misplaced it right now, nevertheless it’s nice that he was in a position to journey in yellow for a day.”
Van den Broek is now primarily wanting ahead to Tuesday’s journey, he lastly mentioned. This issues the primary actual mountain stage of the Tour, over the Col du Galibier.
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