After damaging our image at the Tour of Istanbul last month, Émilien Jeannière obviously wanted to do a double take at the Tour of Kyushu in Japan. A habit that he will have to stop during the next Cycling season.
A start to the Tour to forget for Émilien Jeannière
You may not know it, but the Tour of Kyushu is a cycling event held in Japan. In any case, we hope that this anonymity will remain strict, because given the performance of the TotalEnergies troops and its sprinter Émilien Jeannière, it is better not to make too much noise. From the first stage, the Vendée runner raises his arms to the sky. To report a puncture? Absolutely not, but quite simply because he crosses the finish line first.
But the hardest part is yet to come. Indeed, this misstep is not enough for him, he still has to play the role of repeat offender, starting the next day. The Frenchman wins the first two stages of the Tour of Kyushu, it is to finish us off.
On the Tour of Kyushu, we don’t leave empty-handed
You will have guessed it, we are not very calm at the arrival of the third and final stage. But against all odds, the Russian runner Ivan Smirnov allows himself to be rude to Émilien Jeannière, and prevents him from achieving the hat-trick. But not to win the Tour of Kyushu, as well as bring home crucial UCI points for his team.
And the worst thing is that he dares not to be full. From the type of those who are not satisfied with second place, the future of cycling is very bleak.
“I’m super happy to have won the general classification. We really did a lot of teamwork. Unfortunately, I finished 2nd in the stage, but the main thing was the general” Émilien Jeannière
In addition to the trophy won for this race, the Vendéen had the happy surprise of leaving with… a giant sea bream. You know how to receive or you don’t know how to receive.
