Alexandre Geniez (AG2R-La Mondiale) : “La Vuelta is a special race, at the end of the season. It’s different than the Giro where only two breakaways had the chance to fight for victory. Here, there are more opportunities and I think my successes here (3 stage wins at La Vuelta) also come from the fact I recover well for the end of the season. I didn’t plan to be at the front. I thought Bora would control the stage for Sagan. And then we saw Formolo attack, there were about 15 riders at the front so I thought I had to go. We worked well together to quickly open a gap. Nibali was the main figure at the front, everybody was looking at him. Then, I had to be careful when attacks started. I wanted to wait for the sprint because I figured it was my best chance. The team is having a great start of La Vuelta. Tony (Gallopin) is still in a good position on GC and we’ll keep going until Madrid.”
