Ce samedi, le peloton féminin avait rendez-vous en Enfer. Un Enfer que Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma | Lease a Bike) a dompté avec brio, en s’imposant en solitaire sur le mythique Vélodrome de Roubaix ce samedi. Pour sa première participation à Paris-Roubaix, la Française a signé un coup de maître en plaçant son attaque à 25 kilomètres de l’arrivée, sur une portion de route. Intouchable, elle a piégé les SD Worx-Protime et une Lotte Kopecky étonnamment passive dans le final, après avoir pourtant allumé la course à plus de cinquante kilomètres de l’arrivée.
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00:00You're a born winner, can you be happy with the third place?
00:07Now maybe not to be happy, it's not where we came for as a team also, and at the end
00:15I think it will be maybe later I realize it's also special to get a third place here, it's
00:21a super tough race and it's something special, but yeah it's a bit mixed feelings at the
00:27moment.
00:28And what was the plan to me and what was your plan as a team?
00:32For me it was to hang on as long as possible, to survive as long as possible.
00:37Lotte was free to attack, but at one point in the race we also saw that Marianne Vos was
00:43really strong and actually following quite easy route.
00:47And at one point we made a decision that Lotte would pace it as long as possible to the finish
00:53line to try to get Pauline back.
00:56And today it was not enough.
00:59But I think we can be really happy how we rode as a team and we showed our strength also.
01:05And also it didn't help that Ellen van Dijk bent pretty early in the race.
01:08Did Visma kind of play a numerical game on yourself?
01:11Like you guys are masters of that.
01:14Did you find that there was almost too hard to track so many of you?
01:17I think they played it really good.
01:21Sometimes you need to be also a bit, I would not say really lucky, but that nobody is following
01:27you when you attack.
01:29And I think Pauline took also the right moment to attack and no goal he was following.
01:34And then we have to gamble also sometimes a bit that somebody else would follow.
01:38And do you look like now, are you ready?
01:50Are you wanting to come back to Roubaix and take that first podium?
01:54Yes, yes.
01:55It will be a goal again to come back and take a win, especially for the team next year.
02:04And it's also an experience to come so far in this race and to fight for the podium.
02:11Is it hard to compare to many of the races?
02:13Yes, because like at one point when they attack still with I think 3-4k to go, out of nowhere
02:21my legs really cramped also.
02:23So it's something completely different.
02:25Like I had a really good nutrition during the race, but it's so different in other races.
02:31Oh no, excuse me, I'm French, French media.
02:35Pauline van Provo wins the first paroula to France of France.
02:38What do you say, Pauline van Provo?
02:40I think she's a really strong rider and that she had a test in the mountain bike racing
02:46I think maybe also helped her.
02:49Yeah, she's just really strong and actually I'm quite impressed in how she's doing it in these races,
02:56coming back on the road.
02:59Lorena, all the talk pre-race was how the teams were going to be aggressive against your team.
03:03How do you think teams did race against you?
03:05I mean, you didn't win, but how do you rate the other teams as aggressive?
03:09Yeah, I think Pauline took the right moment to attack, so I think they did it good today.
03:15It's also sometimes a gamble for us what to follow and what to not follow and sometimes others follow.
03:21So that's always a bit of gambling.
03:25No, I think it was a good race, but I'm not looking too much on the team.
03:30When you and Lotte broke through, I think we were around about 45k to go, did you think this might stick this?
03:36We might come to line?
03:38Well, we also knew that nobody probably would work with us, so it would be hard.
03:43And I was also, at that moment, I also said I need a little bit of recovery because I was quite on the limit to what we were in the sector.
03:52And final one, final, final one.
03:54When all did come back together and you were kind of a group of 24 for the rest of the race, what was the cohesion like?
04:01Was everyone working together or was it just left to you guys, essentially?
04:06Yeah, they are mostly looking to us at the end.
04:09I can also fully understand.
04:11And that's why they started also attacking in this group.
04:14And I think that's also the smart thing from the other teams, I guess.
04:19Well done on that.
04:21Thank you, Ronald.