Neuvième du chrono, David Gaudu pointe à la septième place du général avant la dernière étape, ce dimanche. 📷 @GettySport
Tough day for Groupama - FDJ as they loose race lead and miss out on the win in the Algarve
CyclingSaturday, 19 February 2022 at 21:00
David Gaudu emerged winner on stage two at the Alto da Fóia and although he defended himself quite well, at today's time-trial he dropped to 7th in the overall classification and is out of range to go for the overall win. The day's hopes for Groupama - FDJ though were put on Stefan Küng as he was one of the favourites to take the win the time-trial but his time was demolished by Remco Evenepoel who took down the ambitions of both riders.
"Yeah it was the first TT of the season so you never know where you are. In the beginning I struggled a little bit to find the rhythm but then I think I did a good TT I hope it's enough to take the win," Küng said after his effort. Has luck would have it his time was then not enough as Evenepoel stormed by and removed 58 seconds to the Swiss' time.
"You had one long headwind uphill part, and then it was basically all downhill pretty tricky, with some wind aswell," he answered on an interview with CyclingPro, regarding how the course was like.
With Küng in 5th and Gaudu in 7th place at the start of the final stage of the Volta ao Algarve, the team's ambitions should be to repeat the victory on stage two as Gaudu will find favourable terrain.
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