“First of all, I’d like to keep this jersey on my shoulders for as long as possible. I know it will be hard in stage four when we go up the Mûr-de-Bretagne but I’ll do my best and then help Tyler Farrar in the sprints and try to go for a stage win myself later on. Like I’ve said for a long time, the green is not a goal for me this year. If I get a stage win then I’ll be really happy with my Tour de France.
“The team’s goal was to win this team time trial and also get me in yellow and we’ve made it so from the team’s perspective this Tour de France is already a success. We have a lot more that we’d like to do though including trying to get Tyler to win a stage in the sprints and then we have the GC guys who will try to be up there.
“The teamwork that we did is what made the difference today. Nobody was thinking about anything other than the whole team. We were riding as one unit and it was a satisfying day.”
Interview
July 3
rd
2011
- 18:12
Hushovd – “The team's goal was to win this team time trial...”
