Küng takes first WorldTour win in front of home crowds
Swiss rider solos 30km for Romandie stage win
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BMC Racing's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stefan Küng couldn't have timed his first WorldTour win much better, taking 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:stage 4 of the Tour de Romandie in h🐠is own home 😼country and that of BMC, the team's title sponsor.
The 21-year-old reigning individual pursuit world champion attacked out of a f🍬our-man bre🔯akaway with 30km to go, soloing across the finish more than half a minute ahead of fellow escapees Jan Bakelants (Ag2r La Mondiale) and third-placed Bert-Jan Lindeman (LottoNL-Jumbo).
“To win my first WorldTour race in Switzerland, with⛦ such a great crowd and with such a great team, is great,” Küng said. “I had a look at this stage before, a week ago. I knew it could be something for me. I like this kind of awful weather – rain and a little bit cold. I gave it a shot and in the end it turned out well. I had very good legs. It was amazing to take this win.”
Küng made his winning move on a descent off the penultimate climb of the day, leaving♌ behind Bakelants, Lindeman and Team Katusha's Pavel Kochetkov as the quartet had a two-minute lead over the Sky-led peloton. Before the stage, Küng had mechanics fit his bike with a 54-tooth front chainring to take advantage of the downhill run to the finish.
“It is always very hard to know if you are going to win, but when I reached the top of the last (climb), I knew 🐻that it was looking quite likely,” Küng said.
The win on Friday was Küng's second this year after soloing 🐼to a win at the Volta Limburg last month.
“This is a big day for him and a big day for the team,” said BജMC sport director Yvon Ledanois. “Stefan is a big talen♐t, but he also listens well to the sport directors and to [performance manager] David Bailey. So it is a nice package. This is not a surprise for us. He is already a champion.”
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T💖eam director Max Sciandri said t🌱he weather played into the team's hands as rain poured down throughout the stage.
&lꦗdquo;I told the guys that 50 per cent of the peloton did not want to race and there were four-and-a-half hours of hard work ahead,” Sciandri said. “I said, 'Guys you have trained and prepared for this and you believe in it.' And Stefan was one of the guys on the early break duty. The first break went and then all the rest you saw on TV.”
Küng also✤ earned the day's “most combative rider” honours for the effort.
