皆にマークされて動けなかったサガン マルティンのこれ以上なく切ないマイヨジョーヌ授与式 | cyclowired
表彰式ではマイヨ・ジョーヌ表彰が最後に回された。「そもそも表彰が無いかもしれない」と思っていたところにポディウムにコールがかかると、ゆっくりと、目を伏せがちに登壇するマルティン。そのけなげな姿に対し、見守るような温かい拍手が沸く。しかし、マルティンの涙目は隠せない。笑顔を作っているが、失意のどん底にあることが表情から読み取れる。こんなにも切ないマイヨジョーヌの授与式は見たことがない。
そのときに優勝したチームメイトのインタビュー。”When I caught up with him at the award ceremony, he only congratulated me and told me to enjoy the moment but he didn’t say how much he was injured.”
マルティンもマイヨ・ジョーヌを着るものがどう振る舞うのかを教えてくれた。
Zdenek Stybar: A great feeling, but mixed feelings… – News stage 6 – Tour de France 2015
I have mixed feelings after winning this stage because Tony Martin crashed. When I caught up with him at the award ceremony, he only congratulated me and told me to enjoy the moment but he didn’t say how much he was injured. It’s an amazing feeling to win a stage at the Tour de France, probably on the same level as my first victory at the cyclo-cross world championship in Tabor. I’ve had a hard time changing from cyclo-cross to road cycling. I got some results with winning the Strade bianche and the Eneco Tour overall. Last year I’ve had some bad luck too with two crashes at the Eneco Tour and in cyclo-cross, so I’m extremely happy to have had the green light from my team to try and win today as I don’t get this kind of opportunity often in a year. The last ten kilometers were kind of crazy. I received great info from the team car but to make it real wasn’t easy. Together as a team, we did well in the last downhill. I was thinking of taking Mark Cavendish to the front but he was in difficulty. I was in the wheels of Kristoff, Sagan and Van Avermaet, but they were in trouble too. So I just tried all or nothing. I went for it and the outcome was really great.