"It’s special to do it again here in the Tour de France. The last time in Tignes was a complete shock but this time I got to enjoy much more. I had a super day today, I was finally back to being me after struggling for the past 17 days. My knee is absolutely screwed now, it’s really painful. It’s lingering there and it’s not going to stop until the end of the race. But to finally get it done… I chased that win on day 10, it was a lot of frustration when Simon [Yates] won. Having that moment today is absolutely massive. You always want another win at the Tour and you can’t get enough of these.
I was afraid behind they would be dropping bombs and I would explode in the final kilometres. They closed the gap in the finale but I had enough. Once Rubio was gone, I just didn’t want to be caught by the Yellow Jersey group in the final 5km. When I heard it was still 3 minutes with 3 kilometres to go, it felt so good.
On Glandon, I tried a lot, but it came back and I was feeling in the box. I saw Felix Gall and Primoz Roglic go and I thought: ‘Just do it, get yourself there.’ On Glandon and then at the bottom of Madeleine, I was really close to pulling the pin but these are days that you have to be mentally resilient and trust yourself. I really needed self belief today, from myself and from the team."
