Obviously, this collective performance did not go unnoticed. While big teams like UAE Team Emirates or Ineos Grenadiers did not have a single rider at the finish, the Norwegian team was still in full force in the peloton as the final lap approached.
The runners went through hell during this Flèche Wallonne: “I had ice cubes in my mouth”
Enough to inspire a tweet from a certain Thomas De Gendt, who was seated in front of his television: “No matter what the Uno-X guys had for breakfast, I’ll eat the same thing before my next race.”
Anders Johannessen, Tobias's twin brother, responded with a photo of him eating popsicle with Andreas Leknessund: “This was our dessert today.”
Sixth at the finish, Tobias Johannessen declared that the race had been hard because it was “a bit cold”. And to add: “We are really prepared for this weather, when we saw the snow coming we knew that we only had to wait half an hour before seeing half the peloton disappear.”
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