Rémy Rochas pleased all his family and his dog who came to support him this Thursday on the roads of the Tour de Romandie. The Groupama-FDJ climber accompanied the World Trot’s favorites to the end of a very lively race. “It’s a good feeling when there is a tempo in a bump, and that at some point you turn around and that you are only a dozen”appreciate with Directive The Savoyard who had been embarrassed by allergies, in March, on the Tour of Catalonia, his last race before the Romandie.
He even fed some hot regrets. Victim of a start of cramps, he could not accompany the five runners released about twenty kilometers from the finish. “It was complicated tactically. I didn’t really understand what the UAEs did. Everyone was watching Remco (Evenepoel). For my part, arriving on the flat part, I had to play a little economy to keep energy. It’s regret but I have the shape. I hope I can enjoy it in the coming days”.
“I really hope it comes back for good”
Before thinking about Thyon 2000’s Queen Stage, he looks towards this Friday stage and his final Punchy on the side of Cossonay. “We will really do day by day, and already try to do the best on the arrival of tomorrow. We will see how we play, with Stefan (Küng) or me. It will be a fairly difficult sprint. Then Saturday, it will be the leg that will speak”.
Even if he can hope for a very good general classification – it is currently 11th at a minute from Alex Baudin -, Rémy Rochas already has a little head towards the Tour of Italy. “The Giro begins on Friday… We are here to make results, but we are not going to throw all our cartridges in the battle”. However, he would not be against reassuring himself completely before going to support David Gaudu for three weeks. “I really hope it comes back for good”concludes Rémy Rochas, who had attacked the season on the right foot in Australia (See your Directvelo sheet).
