Torstein Træen (Bahrain Victorious): “It feels a bit unexpected. A few days ago, I was talking with the other Norwegian rider here, Johannes [Staune-Mittet]. I was talking about a Norwegian GC, and he said: ‘You’re a loser, because you’re so close on the actual GC.’ And I said: ‘Wen I take the red jersey after the Andorra stage, I don’t think you’ll call me a loser anymore!’ To be honest, it was pretty hard. It was already a hard fight to get in the breakaway. Then, it was tricky for the first 50 kilometres I would say, and after that I realised there would be a positive at the end of the day. There was still Bruno Armirail really close on GC, but I knew the final climb would be pretty hard. Jay [Vine] attacked on the downhill. And I went all out. It was a long last 5 kilometres. I don’t know how far I can keep it, maybe tomorrow Jonas [Vingegaard] already takes it back [laughs]. That’s a possibility."
