His feeling was the right one. Going to the Belley Grand Prix, Léo Busson was rather confident. “I was ultra motivated, I spoke the day before the race with my loved ones. I don’t know why but I felt it well. It was going pretty well in the week”he reports to Directive after having imposed on the Ain (see classification).
The member of Bourg-en-Bresse Ain Cycling had prepared his business well. “I saw that the year before, it had been won in escape, and I was told that in previous years too. I said to myself “We will have to put everything from the start, even if it hurts, to go out of escape” “. From the third of the sixteen towers, he ended up at the front, with Théo Le Roux (Team Adris-La Crêpe de Brocéliande-Blc), Léon Picard (Team Buffaz Gestion de Patrimoine), Gabriel Salon and Baptiste Trojolis). will never have more than 40 seconds ahead, which forces them to always run under pressure. “I made the bump all the time to try to save time on the peloton and use my opponents.”
“It was impossible to work”
In the last lap, Baptiste Troja is attacking in the difficulty of the circuit. “I followed him. I had no leg pain. So I coupled but he followed me directly. I said to myself “Oulah”, sUrtout that I was starting to really be very lactic. I told myself that it should not be given one ”. Théo le Roux distant, Léo Busson and Baptiste Troja go to play the sprint victory. “He no longer wanted to go into the last straight line. He told me that he was not strong in the sprint, but I did not know if it was true”. The Haut-Savoyard launches the sprint first, at the exit of the roundabout. “There was no wind, I have small sprinter qualities in small group. I gave everything and it did”.
This success arrives after a complicated start to the season. His year begins, on January 3, with a title of champion of France elite team prosecution. But a knee problem then prevents him from driving for three weeks. “It was impossible to pedal, I had to do ten hours of bikes during this period”. His problem solved, he was able to go back for good on his machine, but could not participate in the pre-season internship of his team, nor in the Haut-Var loops. “I was disappointed but I got back well in it, I worked very hard, with my new coach, David Paquet. On the races, I was well placed in the peloton but I felt that it was another world compared to the juniors. It’s much harder”. A fall in the race gave him a hit, but he did not drop anything, until he won this Thursday in Belley.
