INTERVIEW
Following the 3rd stage of the Tour 2008 (St-Malo-Nantes), won by Samuel Dumoulin, Romain Feillu takes the Yellow Jersey to the old of a 29.5 km time trial around Cholet . He then saw one of the shortest stays in yellow, 40 minutes and 43 seconds, a little more than the record holder Patrick Sercu in 1974 (11 minutes on the team time trial in Harelbeke, 9 km) and his compatriot Philippe Gilbert in 2011 (25 minutes on the Essarts team time trial, 23 km).
Romain Feillu takes the Yellow Jersey on the Tour 2008:
"It's really wonderful, I still have protocol music in mind, where I thought about Miguel Indurain (five-time winner of the Tour) who was my idol when I was little," recalls Romain Feillu at the microphone of Europe 1. "Well, it was beautiful, I have the time lapse, then the protocol and a little warm-up jersey that are in the dressing room, not yet framed.I also have the bike with which I had ran at the time, that I kept, which is in my attic but there, with perhaps the retirement, I will put all under showcase. "
"It changes a lot of things at the level of notoriety"
Like many, Romain Feillu, who is about to end his career at the end of the season, recognizes that the yellow jersey changes things. "We do not go from anonymity to celebrity because I had already won the Tour of Britain, Paris-Bourges, races like that, but here the Tour is the most publicized race in the world. So, of course, it changes a lot of fame, contracts coming in, renegotiated too, it's all full of things like that. " And this yellow jersey that continues over the years ... "For many people, Romain Feillu, it remains associated with the yellow color ..."