Sagan irritated by Wout van Aert’s sprint: “I’m especially happy to still be in one piece”

The Slovak didn’t hesitate to point the finger at Wout van Aert just after the finish line to express his displeasure. A reaction misunderstood by the Belgian. “I didn’t feel like I was doing anything wrong. He tried to tell me something after the sprint, but I couldn’t understand because of the noise”told WVA.

Jean-Rene Bernaudeau, the boss of TotalEnergies, Sagan’s team, judged the Belgian’s trajectory rather limited. “It’s like that, it’s the sprinters, it’s violent, very, very manly, launched the boss of TotalEnergies. It’s a little locked up, I think Van Aert made a small mistake by tightening it up nicely. When you are champions like them, there is a lot of virility that happens to be at the limit of regularity.“