Wilco Kelderman finished disappointed in the Tour de France’s time trial to Le Caverne de Pont, 45th at 4-57 minutes behind winner Tom Dumoulin (Giant-Alpecin). 

"It was worthless, as you can see,” team LottoNL-Jumbo said after the 37.5-kilometre stage 13.

 “It is very disappointing. Those cross-winds made it dangerous. I was really scared in the downhill.” He raced with a time trial front wheel despite the wind.  "You want to be fast, so you’ve to choose a three-spoke front wheel and a disc rear. If you want to win you have to go for the fastest option."

Heijboer

"This is a very disappointing result,” performance manager Mathieu Heijboer added. “The only positive is that he stayed upright. From the car, we quickly saw that it was not good. We went for a top 10 place and I'm sure he can do it, but after the first intermediate point his time was already so bad that we decided for staying safe. We directed him to ride safely rather than take risk for a top 30.

"It is clear that this day did not go well for Kelderman. We have to analyse it, and not look too far ahead." 

Nice

It was uncertain whether the stage would go ahead because of the terror attack in Nice. Kelderman had that in his head. "Sport is not that important, we are so busy with cycling, but then you read something like that,” Kelderman said. “It's about people's lives, and that's terrible. "

"It is unfortunate that it is not unique, it is yet another shock where you get scared,” Sep Vanmarcke said. “I was not thinking about racing today. I just hope that nothing will happen again."