“Today was the hardest stage for me. I don’t know why. Maybe I was just really bad but everybody attacked and there was no going slow today. From the start to the end it was like full gas. It was fast! I just remember moving up and moving up and thinking, how far back can I possibly be? As soon as I got near the front, I would be past and have to move up again. I was so happy when we got to the finish line and I could finally stop and stand still for a moment. _ “The thing is, you really concentrate on the challenge of the Alps or the Pyrenees and once that’s behind you, the natural instinct is to focus on what needs to be done in the time trial. You don’t know how you should approach it; they say it’s the last day that matters and in a stage like this your mind is already considering the time trial and it’s taxing. It was really hard today mentally more than physically.”
Interview
July 25
th
2008
- 17:57
Andy Schleck – “It was really hard... mentally more than physically”
