I’m very happy with the performance of my team. It was pretty important for me to keep a steady rhythm at the final climb, and thankfully Richie Porte did it on my behalf and on his as well. From then on, I tried to hang in the group of the favourites for as long as possible and maybe try to sprint to the finish line at the end… But it was impossible for me after keeping the tempo of the climbers for so long. I was expecting something like this from Dan Martin. After all, he is very good at choosing the right moment to make a strong attack. For sure I have thought about the possibility of wearing the yellow jersey in Roubaix, but there are a couple of stages before that one and every day something happens. Anyway, of course it would be nice to win that stage in yellow so close to the Belgian border.
