Benoît Cosnefroy: «Winning twice in one week is a dream come true.»
«It wasn't an easy race. We had to make the right decisions in the final, and I'm really happy. The team was there today, we didn't make any mistakes. It was more fast-paced than we had imagined this morning, but it worked out for us, so it's perfect. The end of the season usually goes well for me, I manage to stay in shape from the Tour de France. It's not easy to win as a professional, so to do it twice in a week is a dream come true. I'm enjoying it to the fullest.»[/su_quote]
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After Ben O'Connor on stage 9 of the Tour de France, Andrea Vendrame on stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia and stage 1 of the Route d'Occitanie,
Aurélien Paret-Peintre at the Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise, Dorian Godon at Paris-Camembert and on stage 2 of the Tour du Limousin, Clément Champoussin and Benoît Cosnefroy, winner of the Bretagne Classic – Ouest France and the Tour du Finistère, bring the AG2R CITROËN team its ninth and tenth road victories this season. Also noteworthy are Marc Sarreau's French track championship title in the scratch race and Clément Venturini's cyclo-cross title.
This is Benoît Cosnefroy's 12th professional victory and Clément Champoussin's first.
Both riders are from the AG2R CITROËN U23 team, the training centre for the AG2R CITROËN team.
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A victory in every Grand Tour, a first since 2006 for the AG2R CITROËN team
Ben O'Connor's victory in the Tour de France, Andrea Vendrame's victory in the Giro d'Italia and Clément Champoussin's victory in La Vuelta a Espana have enabled the AG2R CITROËN team to win a stage in each of this year's three Grand Tours.
This had not happened since 2006.
