“Today to be honest my elbow and my knee were really hurting, especially my elbow, because with the stitches I could not move so well. So especially with today’s really fast racing we needed to accelerate more so it was super painful. Always the next day is the hardest, you feel the pain and it’s not nice to sleep, but mentally I’m highly motivated so that gave me a lot of strength today. Mentally I’m really strong and I’m super happy to gain some points again. It’s always the way, if you get closer you feel strong mentally, also because you say to yourself, this is the time, we are only two or three days away, so that gave me a lot of motivation and I am really happy I could finish in a good way today. You have to show the fighting spirit and if you are mentally strong nothing can stop you. I already said to my team yesterday, don’t worry it’s not yet finished and we’ll give it everything, just fight until Nice.”
