It is a beautiful skewer of Belgian runners who appeared at the microphone of Jérôme Helguers this Thursday on the sidelines of the presentation of the runners of the Tour de France in Lille. In leader, the very smiling Tim Wellensdressed in his brand new Belgian champion jersey conquered brilliantly in Binche last Sunday.
“I am very proud to wear this jersey. The team did a great job to highlight our colors “was delighted the Trudonnairemainly there for “Guide Tadej well in the first week ” And help him in the rest of the Tour. “”He looks very well, he is very relaxed. I think it is ready, “confirmed a proud Wellens to take a Belgian delegation that looks great.” We are not going to have the opportunity to say in the first week because we will be very ccup but after that can be nice “joked the UAE runner.
“It is true that it can be nice to find lots of Belgians in the gruppetto“, also smiles Laurenz Rex. “This shows obvious: we are the strongest nation in cycling collectively“, he assures then that Thibau Nys is very happy to see “So much quality around ” of him
A feeling shared by Oliver naesenmore analytical in his response. “”We are not far from the house and it will be a nice thing to run on our roads on these first steps. TOn the years, we are about twenty Belgians but there, almost 30, it’s huge. And we are not there to do figuration, there are many candidates to win stages. It may be a great cru of Belgium. The fact that we have to rub a lot and place our leaders is perhaps an explanation of the number of Belgians present. It will also be my role around Felix Gall. “
The word of the end will be for Guillaume Martin who comments on the absence of northern runners from this Tour de France which starts from this region. “”In Belgium you attract all the love of cycling, there is no longer enough for the north of France “, he jokes.
