Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky): “If you don’t try, you’ll never know if it’s possible to gain time on GC and win a stage. That’s why I went for the breakaway today. When I looked at the stages yesterday and this week-end, I thought this was the opportunity. It wasn’t the biggest breakaway but we had strong riders with Thomas De Gendt, Nico Roche and the others but we didn’t get much of a gap. When Bahrain-Merida started to chase I just went in time-trial mode to try and have the biggest gap for the last climb. But it wasn’t enough to fight for the stage win. So onto the next one.”
