2019 Tour de Suisse Stage 8 Results & Recap
Stage 8 of the 2019 Tour de Suisse is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Yves Lampaert (DQT) powered to stage victory today in Obergoms winning the 19.2 kilometre time trial with at time of 21:58. The Belgian road champion was the only rider to break the 22 minute mark. Lampaert’s teammate, Kasper Asgreen, finished second, five seconds slower.
Søren Kragh was third, at 10 seconds.
“I didn’t expect it, because before the start I thought I didn’t have the best feelings, but I just gave it my all and rode full gas,” Lampaert said. “To beat so many riders, so many specialists of the discipline, including the World Champion, it’s just incredible and feeds my confidence ahead of next week’s Nationals. It’s my first World Tour ITT win and it’s just crazy. I’m surprised, but at the same time, so, so happy.”
The big question of the day was whether race leader Egan Bernal (INS) could hang on to his jersey with world TT champion Rohan Dennis just 41 seconds behind the Colombian. \nBernal held his own, and at the intermediate time check, he was 19 seconds behind Dennis. By the finish line, it was clear he would start the final stage with the yellow jersey and starts tomorrow 22 seconds ahead of Dennis.
“It’s for sure a surprise for me to be here in the yellow jersey,” Bernal said in his team’s release. “This morning I thought that maybe I would lose yellow and now I’m still here. I was in a fight for this jersey with the world time trial champion so I should be happy with the performance.
“In a left-hand corner I almost fell and I was a little bit scared because I took the corner really fast. It was a risk, but I think that I took a couple of seconds in the corner.\n \n“Tomorrow I think we should just try to keep the jersey, not do anything crazy. There’s one day to go. If Bahrain want to win the race they will try something but we just need to keep hold of it.”\n
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