The hero of the day is a Viking, his name is Jonas Abrahamsen, the coach of his team is parked in front of the bar The Hercules And the thirty Norwegian supporters who make a hellish boucan took place in front of the L’Héraclès square. Mythology was invited on its own at the Table of the Uno-X Mobility training this Wednesday in the Toulouse streets to celebrate a runner, a team and a country.
UNOO-X won its first success on the Tour, its first on a large tour, too, and it owes it to a pedal crush, a tyrant of bitumen, which was revealed last year in July. And who, a few weeks ago, did not know how he would be on his bike. “I broke the collarbone at the Tour de Belgique a month ago (June 18) and I cried in the hospital because I knew that I may have let my chance be on the Tour de Franceexplains Abrahamsen. I did everything I could to come back. Being at the start is already a great victory. Winning a step is fantastic. »»
“He is a boy who knows how to push suffering very far”
Joona Laukka, Agent de Jonas Abrahamsen
Then advances the boss of the Norwegian team, Thor Hushovd, ten stages of the Tour on the clock and two green jerseys between 2001 and 2010. Everyone falls into their arms, everyone kisses and lets tears point around the eyes. “It was extraordinaryhe says. This success, we went to get it, not just today (Wednesday)but since our beginnings in 2017 and our debut on the Tour three years ago. Jonas deserves this victory. It is that of a whole country. “” We have never won around, I don’t even know how we have to celebrate that “laughs Andreas Leknersund, wearing the pink jersey for five days on the Giro 2023. Abrahamsen is not yet there, but his teammates, the Danish Magnus Cort, the only non-norvian, to the Brothers Johannessen, Anders and Tobias, passing by the young Stian Fredheim, only talk about him.
Abrahamsen, who had only won the classic Brussels last year in his career, entered another dimension on Wednesday. “I saw him yesterday afternoon (mardi)he told me that if he took a breakaway, it would not be for nothing. He was ready. He is a boy who knows how to push suffering very far, a work beast ”slips his agent, Jona Laukka, about a boy whom his team had almost kept four years ago. Like his training, discreet, but one of the most at the forefront of research and innovation in the world of cycling. “Our team goes up by walking, we never jumped three steps at a time. We will continue like thisExplique Hushovd. Maybe one day we will be the best team in the world, but we don’t need to be tomorrow. We advance in small steps, I am very proud of that. »» Abrahamsen is now the best standard.
