"Getting on the box is really good," reacted the rider from the TotalEnergies team, who was participating for the fifth time in the Primavera (10th in 2021).
"But I'm a little disappointed, I had the first place within reach".
"It's a reward for the whole day of the team, and what goes with it, I thank everyone," added the first Frenchman of the day, second 2 seconds behind Slovenian Matej Mohoric.
"It's off again," sighed Turgis, who had become a subscriber to places of honor in the "monuments".
Fourth in the Tour of Flanders 2020 (and 8th last year), he also finished 13th in the last Paris-Roubaix.
The 27-year-old Ile-de-France resident returned to the race he had started with the rank of co-leader alongside the flagship rookie, ex-world champion Peter Sagan: "Peter had a problem ( derailleur), we had riders relieved so that he could come back quickly but it was going really hard, it was complicated so close to the Cipressa. We left a rider with me.
"Afterwards, the race was really hard, there were only the strongest and it was played on the pedals", added Turgis, taken by the charm of the "classicissima": "It's a race superb, the closer you get to the finish, the faster it goes, it's really a super race."
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