ツバメ content with position after 開始 week of 小旅行する de フラン
Dan ツバメ will enjoy the first 残り／休憩（する） day of the 小旅行する de フラン with a nice feeling in his mind ? if not やむを得ず his 脚s ? after a 堅い 開始 week ended with the Irishman 井戸／弁護士席 placed.
ツバメ was 警報 to the danger on Monday’s 行う／開催する／段階 10 to Albi and when echelons ripped the peloton apart in a frantic finale, he got on the 権利 味方する of the 分裂（する）s to move up to ninth 全体にわたる.
Though still two minutes and nine seconds 負かす／撃墜する on Julian Alaphilippe in yellow, ツバメ knows the real 赤字 to 監視する is the 57-second gap to second-placed Geraint Thomas, and that is one he can live with.
“I think I’ve managed to get through it 平易な as possible, if that’s a way of 説 it,” ツバメ said of an 開始 week that 証明するd tougher than the 行う／開催する／段階 profiles might have 示唆するd.
“I’ve ridden conservatively but the course this year hasn’t really ふさわしい an attacking start unless you’ve got the form that Julian has.
“I think we’re pretty happy with where we are at the moment. 明白に it would be nice to be a bit closer to yellow but I think we would have taken this position before the start of the race.”
Dan ツバメ is happy with his position on the first 残り／休憩（する） day of the 小旅行する de フラン (Ian Parker/PA)
The 赤字 ツバメ has to Thomas was mostly a 製品 of the 行う／開催する／段階 two team time 裁判，公判, in which UAE Team 首長国s could only manage 16th, giving up 43 seconds to Ineos in second, while Thomas’ late dig on La Planche des Belles Filles on 行う／開催する／段階 six saw the Welshman 選ぶ up 14 seconds.
An 適切な時期 to claw some of that 支援する appeared on Saturday’s 行う／開催する／段階 eight to Saint Etienne when Alaphilippe and Pinot attacked すぐに after Thomas was 伴う／関わるd in a 衝突，墜落, but ツバメ could not latch on.
“I was there or thereabouts but unless you were 権利 on their wheel there was no way of going on such a short 成果／努力,” he said. “There were probably three or four guys between me and them and if they can’t follow you can’t follow.
“I don’t know if I’d have chosen to follow or not but it wasn’t really in our 計画（する） to go on the 不快な／攻撃 that day.
“They did an incredible attack so I don’t think I would have been able to go with them anyway. They’ve got a bit more explosiveness than me at the moment.”
Instead, ツバメ’s chance （機の）カム on the flatter roads 長，率いるing in to Albi. He and the team had discussed the 可能性 of crosswinds before the start, and ツバメ made sure he was not caught out of position.
“Even from the first kilometres it was stressful,” he said. “Everybody knew with the 勝利，勝つd it was dangerous and when you have 220 kilometres it can happen at any moment.
“You always need a bit of luck to be in the 前線 and not have bad luck like a mechanical or anything.
“I was always in the 最高の，を越す 20 when it was fighting, fighting, fighting all the time.
“When they really attacked I was 権利 there with them, then Sven (Erik Bystrom) （機の）カム up to me and he 棒 with me and 棒 in the 勝利，勝つd a bit for me and brought me really to the 前線.
“We’ll take it for sure. Anything can happen on any day of the 小旅行する. Everybody has a bad day and for us today was a good day. It’s a really nice way to go into the 残り／休憩（する） day.”
