“I'm okay, shit happens. I was very unlucky, it was not even raining, it was dry road, and one guy moved from the left to the right and I could not really avoid him and went straight down on the ground at high speed. I lost a bit of skin on the road. On the right side, on the arm, the hip and the ribs.
No spectator was involved. I guess it was my own fault.
In the end it was also really dangerous, there were gaps in the peloton. Normally it's the three kilometre rule and they keep the same time but I don't think it will be the case today. We lost something like over a minute but it's not over, the Tour has just started, in the climbs I think that will change.”
