It was a moment that he had been waiting for a long time. This Sunday noon, Dorian Pearl was able to raise his arms by cutting out the finish line of the first stage of the new Tour du Cher (National Elite), after being the fastest during a massive sprint (see classification). “This is the first victory of the season, it really feels good after a disappointing start to the season. It is really nice to win. I had not raised my arms for a long time, I dreamed of it. Doing it in the National Elite is the accomplishment of the work that was carried out for months”.
The performance is all the more beautiful since the 21 -year -old athlete is the only runner of his team aligned on the event. “I had not drawn plans on the comet”. But he was not surprised by the script for the race. “I had looked at the route. In view of the difficulty, we suspected that it would be difficult to make the difference over a hundred kilometers as it was not very hard, even if the wind could have had its importance. I suspected that it was going to happen to the sprint”explains the member of the UC Cholet 49 with Directive. Dorian Pearl was still scary by being “Locked up in the five -kilometer ball”before being able to go up. “I had trouble getting out of it, I found myself quite far. At the kilometer, I managed to find an opening on the left, I was able to replace myself. I fired in the ten or fifteen, I went up and it did. I am happy to win in front of guys like Markus Pajur”.
Place now at the individual time this afternoon. Does he hope to be able to keep his leader jersey? “My weekend is already successful. If I keep the jersey, so much the better, I will give everything, try to make a big time. I don’t want to have regrets. But it will be my first time of the year, I don’t really know where to be”admits the one who imagines that the wind will have great importance. “It’s getting up well, we will have it from the first part of the course. I’m going to go and redo a quick tour by bike or by car”.
