“I was up there near the front in the final, I’m not sure where exactly – I guess it was somewhere in the second wave of riders – and it was important to stay up the front and out of trouble.
“The dream continues: another day in the yellow jersey. It was a pretty solid stage: long day on small roads and quite a lot of wind but it’s really thanks to some great teamwork again I was able to keep the yellow jersey for one more stage.
“I’m confident in our team and obviously there are a couple of us in our team who are on the same time so the main priority is just to keep the jersey in our team. I think we’re more than capable of doing that for the next couple of days.
“The fall must’ve happened a little bit behind me because I didn’t see it happen but it was a pretty hectic final. There were a couple of crashes in the final part of the stage and that’s just a few guys being a little nervous and a lot of guys fighting for position. It was a tough stage and there was a strong break out there today, they got a big gap at the start and a few of our guys did a lot of work to control that before we got a little help in the second half of the stage.”
