Le Tour: Soudal Quick-Step arrives on the Champs-Élysées

Le Tour: Soudal Quick-Step arrives on the Champs-Élysées

Many things can be said about the most recent edition of the Tour de France, which came to a conclusion Sunday evening in the heart of Paris – a tradition which started almost half a century ago. It was a hard, fast, and insane race, but on top of that, a very emotional one for our Soudal Quick-Step team.

Luck wasn’t on our side during the past three weeks, but the Wolfpack – despite facing adversity – battled on admirably and never gave up, showing determination and a lot of grinta even in the hardest moments. The never-say-die attitude, the fantastic fighting spirit and the morale, which remained a rock-solid one even as the race was drawing closer to a conclusion and a win was missing from our palmares, eventually netted a well-deserved victory in Bourg-en-Bresse.

Kasper Asgreen producing a powerful sprint to take the win on stage 18 after a small breakaway held off an entire peloton epitomised the Wolfpack mentality, the same one that has seen the team come back from even the most difficult situations throughout the years, just as people began writing it off, rip off the script and turn the table when it looked impossible to do so.

Given everything, it’s no wonder that as the Tour de France peloton made its way to Paris – the city which retains a special aura that has always inspired people to believe and dream – the feeling among the Soudal Quick-Step camp was one of satisfaction and pride.

“This Tour de France went really fast. It was like that for the riders, but also for us in the car, as I believe it was one of the fastest editions I ever saw. I could say it was a completely new experience. The team did a good race and can be content with it. After Fabio retired, we remained focused and gave our best every single time. Julian was incredible, not only did he go in a lot of breakaways, but he also kept the spirit high in the squad, Rémi did a good time trial which gave us a lot of confidence at the start of week three, while the other guys continued trying and fighting as well.”

“Of course, the amazing race of Kasper – who won out of a breakaway that went from kilometer zero – stands out as our finest moment, but even after this you could see we remained determined to do something and be prominent until the finish, and even on the Champs-Élysées the boys went on the attack, showing the same spirit. The riders and the staff remained motivated the entire time, from Bilbao to Paris, and I think this is something that could be seen by everybody until Le Tour drew the curtain over this edition”, said sports director Tom Steels.

 

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Race details

1 Jordi Meeus
BORA - hansgrohe
2:56:13
2 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin-Deceuninck
0:00
3 Dylan Groenewegen
Team Jayco AlUla
0:00
4 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
0:00
5 Cees Bol
Astana Qazaqstan Team
0:00
6 Biniam Girmay Hailu
Intermarché - Circus - Wanty
0:00
7 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
0:00
8 Søren Wærenskjold
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
0:00
9 Corbin Strong
Israel - Premier Tech
0:00
10 Luca Mozzato
Team Arkéa Samsic
0:00
12 Yves Lampaert
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
15 Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
48 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
99 Tim Declercq
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
102 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
143 Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
147 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step
0:00
1 Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen
Jumbo-Visma
82:05:42
2 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
7:29
3 Adam Yates
UAE Team Emirates
10:56
4 Simon Yates
Team Jayco AlUla
12:23
5 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
13:17
6 Pello Bilbao López de Armentia
Bahrain - Victorious
13:27
7 Jai Hindley
BORA - hansgrohe
14:44
8 Felix Gall
AG2R Citroën Team
16:09
9 David Gaudu
Groupama - FDJ
23:08
10 Guillaume Martin
Cofidis
26:30
33 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step
2:25:43
87 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
4:15:09
104 Yves Lampaert
Soudal - Quick Step
4:42:36
106 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
4:44:01
118 Tim Declercq
Soudal - Quick Step
5:05:18
119 Dries Devenyns
Soudal - Quick Step
5:06:37
150 Michael Mørkøv Christensen
Soudal - Quick Step
6:07:11
1 Jasper Philipsen
Alpecin-Deceuninck
377 pt
2 Mads Pedersen
Lidl - Trek
258 pt
3 Bryan Coquard
Cofidis
203 pt
4 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
186 pt
5 Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen
Jumbo-Visma
128 pt
6 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
125 pt
7 Jordi Meeus
BORA - hansgrohe
123 pt
8 Matej Mohorič
Bahrain - Victorious
106 pt
9 Pello Bilbao López de Armentia
Bahrain - Victorious
103 pt
10 Simon Yates
Team Jayco AlUla
95 pt
18 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step
79 pt
45 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
45 pt
86 Tim Declercq
Soudal - Quick Step
15 pt
1 Giulio Ciccone
Lidl - Trek
106 pt
2 Felix Gall
AG2R Citroën Team
92 pt
3 Jonas Vingegaard Rasmussen
Jumbo-Visma
89 pt
4 Neilson Powless
EF Education-EasyPost
27 pt
5 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
25 pt
6 Simon Yates
Team Jayco AlUla
31 pt
7 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
24 pt
8 Jai Hindley
BORA - hansgrohe
27 pt
9 Michał Kwiatkowski
INEOS Grenadiers
33 pt
10 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
23 pt
17 Julian Alaphilippe
Soudal - Quick Step
31 pt
62 Kasper Asgreen
Soudal - Quick Step
28 pt
63 Rémi Cavagna
Soudal - Quick Step
28 pt
64 Tim Declercq
Soudal - Quick Step
34 pt
1 Tadej Pogačar
UAE Team Emirates
82:13:11
2 Carlos Rodríguez Cano
INEOS Grenadiers
5:48
3 Felix Gall
AG2R Citroën Team
8:40
4 Thomas Pidcock
INEOS Grenadiers
40:23
5 Mattias Skjelmose Jensen
Lidl - Trek
2:07:58
6 Tobias Halland Johannessen
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
2:08:04
7 Mathieu Burgaudeau
TotalEnergies
2:13:44
8 Clément Champoussin
Team Arkéa Samsic
2:50:38
9 Matthew Dinham
Team dsm - firmenich
3:06:03
10 Maxim Van Gils
Lotto Dstny
3:10:20
1 Jumbo-Visma 247:19:41
2 UAE Team Emirates 13:49
3 INEOS Grenadiers 27:38
4 Bahrain - Victorious 28:37
5 Groupama - FDJ 57:20
6 AG2R Citroën Team 1:51:00
7 BORA - hansgrohe 2:05:08
8 Team Jayco AlUla 3:21:33
9 Israel - Premier Tech 4:33:49
10 Movistar Team 4:38:26

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