“Today Tadej and Jonas showed that they are the two best riders here. Tadej is even better, he is on another planet. I think Visma understood that he is unbeatable, but they still wanted to try. It wasn't a bad choice, but I don’t think it could have worked. For my part, I felt that I didn't have enough explosiveness in my legs to stay with them. I tried to follow Jonas a little, but he kept a very high pace. So then I chose to concentrate on the gaps with the riders behind me, Carlos Rodriguez then the others. I saw that my teammate Mikel Landa had a very good stage too, so we can be happy with this week. Tadej is having a perfect year and he has reached his peak level. As far as I’m concerned, it’s my first Tour de France and I’m still here to learn, I still have time to progress.”
