"The intermediate was quite ok but the finish was definitely not good enough. That's a pity. At one point I had to drive back a bit to be into the sprint train, and I ended up in the washing machine. It’s just not easy to find the gaps. It’s not an excuse, I’m just not good enough at that. It’s annoying to be tenth, it would have been nice to be fifth, sixth, seventh, it’s tough to say, but I can be happy that neither Kanter, Philipsen nor Girmay won the stage."
