"That was nice. It’s been 10 years since I last won here, and it’s pretty special to do it again. I won today in pretty similar fashion to what I did years ago, and it was indeed very helpful to know the home straight. We spoke at the team meeting about how there were so many fast speed trains, concluding it was going to be hard to lead out the sprint. Alpecin-Fenix was indeed the strongest sprint train today. On the final kilometre, Michael [Morkov] let me open the right side of the road so I could get on their wheel. The green jersey is not a clear objective. It has changed so much since I won it, with the intermediate sprints awarding so many points, which might play in my favour. Eddy Merckx’s stage wins record? Don’t even say the name! [laughs] I’m not thinking of anything. I just want to win stages on this Tour de France. If I’m good enough to win 50 stages more, nice. If this is my last one, so be it."
