'Being third in the overall of a Tour is incredible': Egan Bernal

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The Colombian cyclist referred to his current position in the race and analyzed what is coming.

Egan Bernal was "super happy" on Tuesday with his third place in the Tour de France overall after the first 10 stages.

"I was not thinking about a result and now being third in the overall of a Tour de France is incredible, super happy with what I've been doing so far, a lot of Tour is missing, but the truth is that for me it's incredible," explained the runner of the Ineos, preceded in the general by his teammate Geraint Thomas and by the yellow jersey Julian Alaphilippe.

Asked about how Pau faces the 27.2-kilometer time trial on Friday, in the 13th stage, on the eve of the Tourmalet climb, Bernal explained: "We are clear that I am going to lose time with a specialist like Thomas, who I am going to lose time in a time like that, but we will try to do our best ... what else can I do? Go to the top of the clock and then see what happens. "
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"There will be other riders who can also lose time, even more time than me, climbers who maybe in the second part of the race will have to recover that time if they want to get on the podium or win the race," added the 22-year-old winner. of the Paris-Nice this season.

"Right now I'm fine, what happens is that it's been a very long season (...) I won Paris-Nice, third in Catalonia, I started preparing the Giro, then I fell and started preparing the Tour, then I won Tour of Switzerland, has been a season of attrition and psychological pressure ", Bernal analyzed.

Bernal wears for the moment the white jersey that credits him as the best young runner in the general (up to 25 years). "Wearing that jersey is very special," Bernal said.

"But our goal is more important, we want the yellow jersey, we want to win the Tour," said the Ineos runner, previously called Sky. In the same line was his teammate and current winner of the gala round Geraint Thomas: "We have a simple goal, win the Tour, other teams are here to win stages."

"It's been a fantastic ten days, and it would have been better if we were a few seconds behind Alaphilippe instead of being more than a minute away, Thomas is second overall 1 minute and 12 seconds behind the leader, while Bernal is four seconds behind. of your teammate.