"I didn’t plan to go in the breakaway today. But Michael Schär sent me a text message this morning inviting me to give it a try together. And, since today it was nervous stage and we didn’t have any GC guy nor chance in the sprint, I told myself… Why not? The stage might be more relaxed on the front, and maybe we built a gap big enough to fight for the stage… But it turned out to be a very fast stage and we got caught pretty early. I know Miki well. We are very good friends, so it was a pleasure to ride along with him at the front of the race. But, you know, we would have loved to stay a bit longer at the head of the race. To be honest, I only attacked on the bridge to make sure I was getting the Combativity prize and the red number!"
