“I felt like I had the legs to go in the break today and maybe win the stage. In the end, I attacked on the last little climb and unfortunately it was a headwind and it was pretty hard to get a gap. At least I tried. When Ivanov went on the descent of that last hill he was really strong and I’m impressed that he was able to fight the wind all the way to the finish.
“Of course if there was no Columbia rider with us, it would have been hard for an escape to stay away but we had a big group and a lot of strong guys. We had to work for quite a while to really get clear of the peloton but eventually the gap really grew.”
Interview
July 18
th
2009
- 18:27
Martijn Maaskant – “At least I tried...”
