{"id":723605,"date":"2026-06-08T19:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723605\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T19:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:16:09","slug":"yellow-jersey-baudin-realistic-about-team-time-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/723605\/","title":{"rendered":"Yellow jersey Baudin realistic about team time trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex Baudin<\/a> safely kept hold of the yellow jersey<\/a> in the second stage of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes. EF Education-EasyPost<\/a> kept the breakaway within five minutes, so the team\u2019s mission was accomplished. Tuesday\u2019s team time trial<\/a>, however, is set to be a much tougher test.\u201cI\u2019m happy to have another day in yellow. It is a great honour to wear and defend this jersey,\u201d Baudin said afterwards in his interview with Cycling Pro Net.<\/a> The responsibility for not letting the break get too far away rested entirely on EF Education\u2019s shoulders. The other teams were already thinking about the important team time trial and were therefore saving their energy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry for the guys,\u201d Baudin joked about the amount of work his teammates had to do. \u201cBut they did an amazing job,\u201d he continued. \u201cMax and Alastair (Walker and MacKellar, ed.) spent 150 kilometres the two of them riding against ten riders; that was very impressive. In the end, the whole team had to work to keep the jersey. Thanks to them, we managed it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the photo. <\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

Alex Baudin celebrates his stage win after the first stage.<\/p>\n

Baudin hopeful for team time trial: ‘We have trained for it in altitude camp’<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were lucky that the best-placed rider in the break on GC was five minutes down,\u201d Baudin went on. \u201cWe initially gave them that gap, and in the final phase we had to bring it back down further. We then rode a bit harder, and that went fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Baudin will have to try to defend his leader\u2019s jersey in a team time trial of almost 30 kilometres, which also includes a few stingy climbs along the way. The yellow jersey wearer admits it will be difficult. \u201cWe\u2019ll try. It will definitely not be easy. There are many teams that can do better than us. Today we already used up a lot of energy, but we will give it everything. We have already trained for it in altitude camp,\u201d Baudin concluded, defiantly, in the flash interview.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Baudin safely kept hold of the yellow jersey in the second stage of the Tour Auvergne-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes. EF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[350444,64,63,784,111365,85,349056],"class_list":["post-723605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-alex-baudin","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-ef-education-easypost","tag-sports","tag-tour-auvergne-rhone-alpes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}