Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes: No Doubt

 

Just days after being dropped in the team time trial and suffering a freak crash before the race even started, Wout van Aert was no doubt the victor on stage 5.

What’s next?

Three summit finishes across the French Alps will decide France’s second-biggest stage race, but who carries momentum into the Tour de France.

“It was painful after the crash I had just before the race. I just had to try after the team chased the breakaway all day. This is such a hard race with a lot of altitude meters so every day it was a question to control the bunch because there are not a lot of sprinter teams and 15 teams want to go into the break. I don’t know if my condidition is much better than at the start of the race. I am happy with this and I have to keep working now.”

-Wout van Aert