"The guys worked for 100% today, it’s especially pleasant to acknowledge that we also had young riders from the development team who had a proper race, and who competed at the same level with other more experienced riders," Lutsenko continues, having joined an attack with
Pavel Sivakov and
George Bennett, although the other two to fight for the stage as he rolled over the line in third as overall winner. "With 50 kilometres before the finish I joined the attacking riders in order to also control the situation and protect our leader’s jersey. We achieved our goal, everyone is happy.”
“When Lutsenko is racing, it is always great, he is a protagonist, a team leader. Here we had also our young talents who were highly motivated to support the captain of the team. Today in the morning we were talking about the importance of our teamwork and I can say that the team performed good… not even good, but perfect!" assesses a delighted sports director, Giuseppe Martinelli. "I enjoyed it. It is a beautiful victory, especially before our next races: Liege-Bastogne-Liege and Tour de Romandie.”
