"I feel disappointed because I had never been this close to winning a stage in the Tour de France, and I don’t know at all if I will ever have this chance again. I have no regrets because we deployed some excellent teamwork to catch the breakaway, and it went well. As the peloton began closing in, I told myself that if I wanted to break away on my own I’d better do it at the foot of some climb. It worked, as I could hear on the radio how the riders were starting to get dropped from the chasing group behind me. I build a decent gap, but it was not enough."
