For Gérard Bulens, Arnaud De Lie ‘was the strongest of the sprinters’ and ‘deserves a spot on the Video games’

“I do not actually suppose he’ll go to the Tour disillusioned. I frankly suppose that Philipsen is a boy that we do not know properly however who has a giant character, who would not at all times present his character. Who reveals it in a dash then once more, as a result of when you need to barely shut the door, he’s succesful to do. That is necessary for a sprinter and it’s not a fault. I feel there might also be a bit of second of decompression for Philipsen as a result of there was plenty of dialogue round his contract. He was on the finish of his contract. He prolonged together with his staff and I feel that when you’re underneath stress to presumably make different decisions, we all know that the UAE staff was once more, he is aware of that he’s second behind Van der Poel, he can there have a bit of decompression. And admittedly when you have got Mathieu who can dash you, it is an entire totally different story.“