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“I’m very satisfied with my week of racing. It’s been hard. We raced seriously every day and at the end I have a stage win and the polka dot jersey. I can be happy with that. I enjoyed wearing this jersey, it motivated me for going to the front again today. I never gave up. I tried to win one more stage today after I secured the KOM. But I’ve paid for...
“I was expecting the day to be even harder than it eventually happened to be but my team controlled it in a perfect way from the beginning. For me, it was a jump in a blue limousine until the finish. We got a nice group sent out. I don’t know what happened to Adam Yates but it seems that he stopped for some reasons and Steven Kruijswijk got some problems. The cold...
“The plan was for Gianni [Moscon] and myself to go in the breakaway to try to help Wout [Poels] but it ended up a little bit differently. I’m so happy this week. It was with ups and downs. Everybody knows what happened with Chris [Froome]. The team did a really great job after that. I’m just really happy. In the past I really struggled in this race but I’ve...
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