“I don’t know what happened at the finish today I just had nothing in the legs when I started to sprint. I just felt tired and I couldn’t go in the last couple of hundred meters. Yesterday and the day before I went really deep and I think I’m paying for it now.
“I still have a lead in the green jersey competition but you saw today that I lost a lot of points to Petacchi and McEwen and, like I’ve always said, I need to stay focused and take it day by day.
“It was a fast and nervous sprint today and in the last corner I was too far back. [Brett] Lancaster brought me to the front and I think I spent too much energy to fight with Cavendish and, when Petacchi went on the left, I just couldn’t sprint.
“Petacchi is a threat to the green jersey. He seems really strong now and, if he wants to, he come make it all the way to Paris. I’m surprised by how well Alessandro is going. I know he’s a good, strong rider but to come back to the Tour de France like he has is impressive.”
Interview
July 7
th
2010
- 18:28
Thor Hushovd – “I'm surprised by how well Alessandro is going...”
