Jonas Vingegaard (Visma-Lease a Bike): “Of course, I wanted to win in Bilbao and at L’Angliru, but Bola del Mundo is also something special. To be honest, I started to feel a bit better today, better than the previous mountain top finishes, so I’m happy with how things have turned for me today and with how the team has done over the last three weeks. The team has been amazing and I couldn’t have done it without them. I wouldn’t say I was comfortable following the pace set by Joao [Almeida] and Jai [Hindley], but at least I felt like I wasn’t on my limit yet, so I felt I had a good chance of winning the stage. At one point, I just decided: ‘Now I’m gonna try.’ Immediately I got a gap. Then the last few hundred metres were incredibly hard. Of course there’s also tomorrow but normally there will be no changes. Hopefully we keep things like that and we make it to the finish with the red jersey.”
