The best among #OrangeBlue in the time trial of yesterday, today second on the finish line. Eduard Grosu have a very good start of the season with power and ability in a long sprint. His season starts with a good podium. This week-end the last two stages of the French competition and also the Trofeo Laigueglia in Italy for the others #OrangeBlue riders.
Tour La Provence – Tappa1 – Aubagne › Stres
The Tour La Provence of Eduard Grosu starts with a podium. After a good time trial in the prologue, Eduard Grosu reached the 2nd place in the first stage of the Tour. A stage of 184 km concluded with a final for sprinters able to “drive the bike” very well with a not so large road and important bends.
The winner is the French rider Christophe Laporte of Team Cofidis, 2nd place for Eduard Grosu the Rumanian sprinter of the NIPPO Vini Fantini Europa Ovini team at the end of a long sprint.
The #OrangeBlue sprinter is strongly determined to reach good results after the hard training of this winter period. “I want to thanks my teammates that during all the stage worked for me giving me the chance to arrive in the best condition to play the final. The Cofidis riders have done very well the last bends and they won, but I know that I have been training very well during this winter period. For this reason this podium is my starting point of the season that push me to continue to train in this way. But first of all on Sunday there is another good stage for sprinters and we work for this goal.”
Tomorrow the stage with the most important difference in altitude of the Tour and on Sunday another stage for sprinters. We remind to everyone that the final part of each stage is streamed live on Facebook by the official page of La Provence, at this link.