In the absence of a French runner at the start, the public and the media of the region present on the Tour de Romandie have been going a lot towards Stefan Küng since Tuesday. The German -speaking Switzerland, the most famous cyclist in the country, is very busy every day, morning and evening. It was again this Friday after opening the road a good part of the day, which allowed him to obtain the price of the fighting spirit located as every day 25 kilometers from the finish. To take off, he placed himself behind the car of the front commissioner in the fictitious departure in order to attack the drop in the flag. “There was a good opportunity on these roads. I know them well. There are a lot of turns and it’s still well damaged”estimates the man with the three stages victories over the Romandie, including one in Morges very close to Cossonay, theater of departure and arrival this Friday.
He was at the front with Huub Artz (Intermarché-Wanty) and Bauke Mollema (Lidl-Trek). “I had two good guys with me, but I would have preferred to have others. Unfortunately, Huub Artz was not far away in general (at 1’16 ”, editor’s note)so it immediately started behind ”he regrets. Unleashed, Stefan Küng got rid of the two Dutch people. “I said to myself that if I let go of Artz, maybe some teams would stop rolling behind. It’s hard to know if it was true but he also told me that he was in a block. So I told myself that I was going to be better alone”.
So he tried everything for everything in the last difficulty, the Mollendruz, whose summit was located 40 terminals from the finish. “I was not only there to do the show. I really thought about it at times”. The peloton finally took over eleven kilometers from the goal. “It was perhaps not ideal to be alone at the end. I had cramps and I could not press as I wanted. It would have been complicated anyway on roads like that with the momentum of the peloton. But who does not try anything”. This Saturday, between Sion and Thyon 2000, despite the difficulty, he will try to “Pass the stretch possible stage”. History to hit hard on the Genève final time.
