Mathieu Van der Poel: "I was motivated to give it my all"

June 11 ^th 2025 - 17:47

"I’m really happy with my performance today, especially after spending so much energy yesterday in the breakaway. During the recon and also the warm up, I felt it in my legs but I was motivated to give it my all in this TT. I didn’t think about the overall lead at all. I knew that guys like Remco [Evenepoel] and the other GC favourites would gain a lot of time today so the yellow jersey was not in sight. It was just for myself, I wanted to do a good TT. I asked [Evenepoel] a few weeks ago if he thought I could finish within a minute from him. It was close [1’02’’] but I still have some work to do!"