Frank Schleck – “What we've seen today is one big show...”

“I’m really happy. It’s amazing especially after missing out following the work that my team did on the way to Hautacam, to miss out by one second was a real shame. I said to the boy, ‘I’m really sorry that I couldn’t bring [the yellow jersey] back to the hotel.’ Well, tonight I guess I can do that. This one is for all the team of CSC-Saxo Bank. _ “We’ve seen the strongest rider was Andy today. The power he put on the pedals was amazing and he put everybody in the red zone. So finally we could attack. I knew that if I would attack, Cadel was just going to be right on my wheel. So I had to do it in the last kilometer. That was also the perfect thing for Carlos; he got away and he made a really good improvement in the overall classification so we now have two cards to play with. _ “I always said that I would give my best in the Tour de France and I did a lot of sacrificing and went through a lot of pain for that but I didn’t know how it could come. Just to wear the jersey, I said to myself, would be amazing and finally I’ve got it. _ “The strategy of the three CSC-Saxo Bank riders all attacking on the final climb… that was great wasn’t it? Already at Hautacam we had that plan and it was working out perfectly so we said, ‘Hey, why not do it again?’ What we’ve seen today is one big show.”