“I was close yesterday and today I really wanted to win and to arrive at the finish alone. It’s a really great moment. I was thinking about this stage when I was training a few weeks ago and now that I’ve won it, it’s really great.
“I’ve had a really great Tour and have been able to get in the right breakaways just like Thor can... I think the two Norwegians in this race are in really good form.
“I wanted to try to attack but I didn’t want to go too often and I’m happy that it worked well.
“It was a very technical downhill near the finish but I knew it quite well. I saw it on a video before we left the bus this morning and I felt like I knew almost every corner and that helped a lot. I wanted to hold my own pace going up the climb and after doing that, I could go alone down and it’s really great to win that way.
“It’s been an amazing Tour for Norway, there might only be the two of us but we have four stage wins and that’s really great. I’m having a good Tour I think.”
Interview
July 20
th
2011
- 17:44
Edvald Boasson Hagen – “It's been an amazing Tour for Norway...”
