Alberto Bettiol wore the yellow jersey of leader of the general classification at the Tour of Switzerland after the third place obtained in the third stage won by the Belgian Thibau Nys. The Tuscan analyzed his performance to Spaziociclismo: “I’m not disappointed because I couldn’t have done better than this, honestly. Thibau made a splendid sprint, I couldn’t overtake him and he deserved to win. When he’s like this you can’t do anything about it, you just have to congratulate him and maybe improve in the future to beat him. Anyway, I take the Yellow Jersey and I’m very happy. We raced hard all day to race hard, so this jersey is a good result for me and especially for the team. I hope I can repay my teammates for this work“.
The Education First standard-bearer then continued: “Tomorrow the Tour of Switzerland changes face, the climbs begin, I hope Richard (Carapaz, ed.) and the other climbers can enjoy the climate we have established. Today Carapaz helped me a lot, he did a great job to put me in position. The Visma rider attacked. I was in perfect position, but my legs failed me. When it’s like this I’m not sad, because I couldn’t have done better. Fortunately I take this shirt, which was a somewhat hidden objective, which I kept there, in a corner of my mind. I knew I had done a good time trial and yesterday I tried to see how it could go, my way. Today again at the front and it went well“.
