Les Jumbo-Visma accélèrent dans le peloton. Egan Bernal est distancé tandis que Thibaut Pinot perd quelques longueurs dans la roue de Bardet. C'est dur également pour O'Connor, Skjelmose et Landa qui sont derrière. #TDF2023
"I'm not at my best level, but I'm giving everything" - Egan Bernal keeps chin up and fights on for GC classification
CyclingWednesday, 05 July 2023 at 22:00
Egan Bernal reached the finish line 3:21 behind winner Jai Hindley in the fifth stage of the Tour de France and just over a minute and a half behind the main group of favorites, which included his INEOS Grenadiers teammate Carlos Rodríguez.
The Colombian rider admits that the day was very hard for him and that it was the team that asked him over the radio to keep fighting. "It was a very hard stage from the start, there was not a flat meter, all day up and down. It was very hard, a lot of watts. In the end, what I was saying, I'm not at my best level, but I'm giving everything," he said in a flash interview.
Dropped on the hardest ramps of Marie Blanque, Bernal kept his own pace throughout the rest of the ascent where in 2020 he kept up with Pogacar and Roglic. It was a different performance from the INEOS rider today, however as INEOS featured several riders in the day's breakaway, his loss was not dramatic at the end of the day as he was helped all the way into the finish, after thinking of giving up the GC fight.
"It could have been worse, the team helped me in the last kilometers. At the moment when I gave in I wanted to give in, but from the radio they told me to keep fighting and they did a good job. Carlitos (Carlos Rodriguez, ed.) and Tom [Pidcock] made it to the front and it's good to have them there," he concluded. Bernal sits 20th in the GC into stage 6, four minutes down on Jai Hindley into the race's first summit finish.
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