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"Dylan has won nine times for the Tour and this has always been a compelling advance on the competition, but no one expected him to win such a force in the Tour," he said. the leader of the team Nico Verhoeven. "It shows that he has made a big step forward this year."
In 2016, 25-year-old Groenewegen moved from the Roompot-Oranje Peloton room to WorldTour-Lotto-Jumbo training. His new team has developed a plan that would allow the Amsterdam team to be among the best riders in the world in three years and in this scheme, the team seems to have succeeded.
With his Tour-debut in 2016, the best result of Groenewegen was a fourth place. last year, he won his first stage of the Tour de France in the last stage in Paris and this year he belongs without a doubt to the best sprinters.
On Friday, Groenewegen had more than one bike ride to the seventh stage with Fernando Gaviria, while the Dutch convincingly imposed Saturday with winners of several stages Andre Greipel and Gaviria. The Germans and Colombians were then declassified by the jury because they had to stick to each other during the sprint.
"Dylan is currently the fastest sprinter of pure intrinsic, he has shown," says Verhoeven. "Or as he said on Friday morning:" If I have space to sprint, then I win. "
Boost
Friday's victory resulted in a dose considerable additional confidence in Groenewegen. "But not just Dylan, the whole team got a boost," said Verhoeven.
This victory gave the Lotto-Jumbo sprint train more respect in the platoon. "You certainly have noticed it today," says Amund Gröndahl Jansen, who was Groenewegen's last man in the streets of Amiens on Saturday by a fall in Timo Roosen's final [19659002] "Everyone knew before the Tour that Dylan could be the fastest sprinter in the world, but in the first two stages he had bad legs," according to the 24-year-old Noor. "But now Dylan is back and the competition knows it: he is the man we have to follow. "
Party
Lotto-Jumbo deliberately not too big party After Groenewegen's first win "We had a real party in Paris, we had a beer on Friday night and at ten o'clock and half, the light is extinguished in my room, "explains Gröndahl Jansen.
"We also had a lot of confidence in Dylan today, which is why we took the lead all day with Antwan Tolhoek."
Sunday will not be a hat-trick for Groenewegen, because the ninth stage (Arras-Roubaix, 156.5 kilometers) takes the peloton 21.7 kilometers of paved sections
"We also have ambitions for the classification with Steven Kruijswijk and Primoz Roglic ", explains Verhoeven. "So we still have a lot to gain in the next few days."
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