Herregodts: "a badge of honour"

June 4 ^th 2023 - 17:43

Rune Herregodts (Intermarché-Circus-Wanty): "With 10 seconds in the last 2 kilometres, I knew I just had to go full. When you know you’ve done something wrong, you can be really disappointed, but I gave everything, so that’s life, that’s cycling. I took my chance and it was just not enough. Maybe the peloton underestimated me and that makes it even more of a missed opportunity. Once they know you, it gets harder and harder. The white jersey and third place, it’s nice, but that’s not what I was hoping for in the last kilometre! When you say that Jumbo-Visma sacrificed the whole team, it’s a badge of honour but I would have preferred Jonas Vingegaard to say: 'I'm a GC rider, I don’t pull'! They’re too good of a team."