In 2024, he had ahead of Romain Bardet at the Giro at the Bocca della Selva. This Tuesday, July 22, the 24 -year -old Savoyard offered the Ventoux after the sixteenth stage! It’s a miracle …
You must never forget to see the good side of … falls! On Tirreno at the start of the season, Valentin Paretrere fell without realizing that he had broken the coccyx. The pain on the Volta a few days after led it to new exams and the verdict fell. Disappointment, this setback after a good start (winner in the green mountains on the Tour of Oman and Dauphin of Adam Yates to general) deprived him of the Giro; His goal again this year.
In 2024, he had signed a magnificent stage success between Pompeii and Bocca della Selva, under the colors of Decathlon Ag2r (his brother Aurélien had lifted his arms in Italy a year before!), Previous Romain Bardet. No Giro therefore, he only resumed in the Dauphiné, but, suddenly, he discovered the tour since the departure of Lille and he did not take long to () understand … invited to accompany Remco Evenepoel in the mountain, he found himself “free” last week after the abandonment of the Belgian. At 24, the young climber Haut-Savoyard had his incredible success.
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“I thought Pogacar wanted it”
“I do not realize! A victory on the Tour is extraordinary, but at Mont Ventoux, it is still something different, I have not stopped telling myself that in the final …” he says. “Ben Healy was really very strong in his attacks, but I told myself that it was a victory in the Ventoux. You can’t let go! Even in the last hundred meters to double him, I really had trouble but I said to myself ” You have to do it, you can’t let go.”
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Five years ago, Valentin, whose father directed the Annemasse club signed a promising success at the top of Ax-Trois domains during the Isard round stage. He has not disappointed since, to the point of hitting the eye of Wolfpack leaders. The immense joy of the entire wolf clan at the top of the Ventoux illustrates its integration in this team which nevertheless achieves, anyway, a hell of a turn.
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“I thought Pogacar wanted it and that they were going to padlock … It’s really a team victory, we can raise our heads now.”