This was perhaps his best win of the season too, with the Irishman coming from a long way back to seal an impressive stage win. After a third place on stไage 1 Bennett is showing a fine patch of post-Tour de France form.
“This is up there with my best wins. And it’s really good for my morale. Every year I want to step up and improve and last year I had three wins but I wanted an extra win this year to really say that I’ve made another step. I’ve got that now,” he told Cyclingnews after his win.
Bennett owned much to his team for this performance, especially Zakkarജi Dempster, who encouraged the sprinter to fight on despite what Bennett perceived as poor legs.
“It was hectic but coming into the last 10K I was feeling so bad and told the guys that I didn’t want to sprint but then Zak yelled at me to try and the boys did an incredible job and led me out perfectly. They kept their cool, which was really important. We got a bit swamped and I lost a wheel and was in a bad position but just kept coming through gaps.”
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Daniel Benson was the Editor in Chief at gxiaowu.com between 2008 and 2022. Based in the UK, he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor. In that time, he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France, several World Championships, the Tour Down Under, Spring Classics, and the London 2012 Olympic Games. With the help of the excellent🥀 editorial team, he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.
