{"id":261894,"date":"2025-07-13T15:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261894\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:28:14","slug":"it-ruins-a-day-you-know-madiot-explains-groupama-fdj-misfortune-on-stage-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/261894\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt ruins a day, you know\u201d \u2013 Madiot explains Groupama \u2013 FDJ misfortune on stage 8"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u201cIt didn’t work at all, but that’s racing,\u201d Madiot told
\nCyclism\u2019Actu.<\/a> \u201cIt’s a shame, there were a lot of punctures in the same place,
\nso we can imagine that there might have been nails thrown on the road. It’s not
\ngreat. It ruins a day, you know. It’s a shame. Paul Penho\u00ebt had a puncture, so
\nit was over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was the ideal sprint for him, on a false flat uphill
\nlike that, it was the best we could have hoped for. I’d been thinking about it
\nfor a long time. We knew he was pretty good, so we really relied on him today.\u201d<\/p>\n

That plan came apart in seconds. \u201cAt the end, we had zero
\npoints. Anyway, the Tour continues. Tomorrow, there will probably be another
\nopportunity, but it’s a sprint that suits us less, I think. If I remember the
\nfinish correctly. After that, we’ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sounds incredible to say, but Groupama have now not won a
\nstage at the Tour de France since Thibaut Pinot\u2019s incredible stage win on the
\nTourmalet in 2019\u2026six years ago now.<\/p>\n

Madiot didn\u2019t hide how much the day had meant to the team.
\n\u201cBut no, I’m very disappointed. Very, very disappointed. Frustrated and
\ndisappointed, both, because it’s a lost opportunity, you know. There was a good
\ncard to play today, Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the GC riders keeping the pace high and fewer
\nbreakaways sticking, opportunities are slim. Still, Madiot insists they\u2019ll keep
\npushing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re going to try to get to the restart, but there are a
\nlot of people who want to go for the breakaways, and there are few breakaways
\nwho go. So we’ll see. Everyone wants to be in front, and then the big guys
\ndon’t let anything pass. So it’s complicated. But that’s racing. Anyway, if we
\ndon’t try, we won’t get anything. So we have to try, try to be opportunistic,
\nbut it’s not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIt didn’t work at all, but that’s racing,\u201d Madiot told Cyclism\u2019Actu. \u201cIt’s a shame, there were a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114846636664019019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}