“I am pleased to see what Pierrick achieved. He is a rider of pure quality but he isn’t a rider who usually chases glory, he’s just a man who loves riding his bike. At the end of the stage it was a particularly difficult situation but a rider of his experience need not crack under pressure. I was afraid about Commesso because I didn’t think he would work in the final two kilometers. If that was the case, we would have lost and it would have been the worst day of the Tour for us, instead it’s the most beautiful! _ "Commesso is really a cunning rider and he's hard to handle but Pierrick knew exactly what he had to do. It's a win for intelligent tactics versus pure power. _ “The first victory is always the hardest to achieve. This morning I started to have doubts because we were really focused on the transitional stages between the Pyrenees and the Alps but there was no need to be concerned.”
Interview
July 16
th
2006
- 18:33
Jean-Rene Bernaudeau (Bouygues Telecom) - "The first is always the hardest..."
