“The whole day was a really nervous one; with the wind everybody seemed afraid that it might split. But for me the sprint a close one but the team was there for me and they supported me well for the lead-out and I think they were going pretty fast.
“It’s nice to hear that [Peter] Sagan thinks it was impossible for him to win again me. Yesterday I hesitated a little bit in the sprint but today I really went for it and the team did too and of course I’m really proud to win again – the day couldn’t have ended better.
“I don’t know if Mark Cavendish was hindered by his fall, he was there at the finish. We are hard people: even when we crash, we are still there to do our job a lot of the time. Last year I also crashed two times near the end of a stage and I was still there for the sprint. I think he is okay because he is sprinting. He won yesterday and I won today and I think it’s good because it’s our objective to win stages.”
