"It’s quite normal that Tadej Pogacar isolates Jonas [Vingegaard] from the team when he attacks. After all, we pulled the whole day. He is one of the strongest riders in the bunch and forces us to be on top of the race the whole day. At the beginning of the attacks, there were almost 40 riders up the road, spread in different groups, and I decided to jump across to one of them. Unfortunately, I had Tadej on my wheel… so I had to slow down, and we switched places. It was definitely a hard start, because when more people bridged back to us, it was just GC guys.
I’m feeling great legs on this Tour de France. Especially, I feel that my climbing legs are getting better and better over the years. We have showed that we can go for both the green and the yellow jersey. I don’t need too much support for hunting points – just Christophe [Laporte]. The green jersey is not secured yet, but we are in a great place."
