Kim Kirchen – “I had everything under control...”

“My team-mates had a pretty hard day. I had everything under control and, okay, in the final I was a little bit on my own on the uphill but I had great legs and could follow even the best guys. _ “Frank Schleck and I had been friends but now that we’re racing against each other it’s a little different. We saw today that his team was very intent on trying to take the yellow jersey from me. There are two guys from CSC who I’m not so happy about. They tried to blow up the whole peloton when my team had been working very hard and I don’t think it was really fair. _ “My team controlled very well from the start. They did a hard job and I just had to follow. Then, when CSC came up to ride, they saw the team had a little bit of difficulty because we’d already done 50km at full gas and I couldn’t really understand what they were doing but now I’m happy that we have the yellow, green and white jerseys in the Columbia team. _ “I went the final climb in control, there was just one moment when I had to do 200 meters at full speed but I managed it and everything went according to plan. _ “If I’m in the front, why should I not sprint to take points for the green jersey? Maybe I’m going to lose the yellow jersey so afterwards I would be happy to have the green one.”