Once his victory was secured, Gregoire actually turned lead out man for teammate
Lewis Askey, who finished 6th. “He felt good, and I wanted to give him confidence,” explained the Frenchman. “This morning, I told him: the priority is the yellow jersey, but if everything goes well, we’ll do the sprint for you. To be honest, it was also an advantage for me to be up front and involved in the race in order to avoid splits and crashes. It was a double benefit. I don’t think we did too badly. I dropped him with a bit more than 200 metres to go and he was able to sprint properly.”
"It’s done, and I’m actually quite happy it is over,” Gregoire concludes. “It’s a little relief because you never know what can happen on a circuit like that. In the end, everything worked out fine. I was not in danger on the circuit, and there weren’t a lot of attacks. It was a pretty quiet day, and it was also good like that.”