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Tour de France begin unlikely for Thomas De Gendt

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Thomas De Gendt took the pressure off his Lotto Soudal team by winning Saturday’s demanding Giro d’Italia stage around Naples, showing that despite being in the twilight of his career he still can take on the best. Even with that result, the Belgian says he doesn’t expect to be on his team’s roster for the Tour de France in July.

“It’s not my decision, I cannot decide which races I want to do or have to do,” De Gendt said in a rest day press conference at the Giro d’Italia. “I could decide until the Giro but I did three or four races extra that I didn’t ask [for] – there was no other choice because we have so many guys that were sick or injured. And I also don’t want to put a team at risk of not being able to start. You have to start with at least four riders and in some races, we were with only five.”

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