"I was already thinking about winning here when I was sick last year and had to watch this stage on television. The way it went is a dream.
It was super hard to be up there with the best rider in the world. All my respect for Tadej [Pogacar]. I thought we were gonna get caught. Then I thought about this moment, I put my head down in the last 500 metres. I went as hard as I could. I was just waiting until a wheel would come and pass, but it didn’t happen. In the end, I see a Pirelli tyre next to me and it’s Jasper’s. It shows we never gave up. Maybe the start of our Tour wasn’t good. But one and two on the Champs-Élysées, I think it’s pretty good.
I’m super happy. I have a few races I still want to win in my career, and this was one of them.
We have a saying in Dutch: it has to come from your toes. I don’t know where this one came from, but definitely not from the toes!"
