"I think I’m like a bottle of wine, every year I get older I get better! That’s pretty amazing especially in a really hard stage and it’s amazing to beat a rider like Evenepoel in a break. I’m super happy. I knew there was a corner coming up with 350 metres so I thought if I entered that one first and went flat out to the finish, I have a pretty good sprinter as a climber… And I just can’t believe this. Today we targeted this stage. It was really hard to get in the break. You could see all these good riders with G [Geraint Thomas], Remco… You have to make a plan. I thought in the steep part I would go full gas and see what happens."
