Tour de France 2019: Greg van Avermaet on the burden of Belgium, dealing with defeat and the yellow jersey
Published on: Monday 01 July 2019
A few months ago, Greg van Avermaet was approaching the Poggio, the decisive final ascent of Milan-San Remo: one of the five Monuments of road cycling, and a race he has never won. The day was going well and van Avermaet, the reigning Olympic champion and one of the world’s pre-eminent one-day racers, felt strong. But as the jostling pack reached the foot of the climb, all of
