“It’s one less day to go, and it has been a very good one indeed. It was a very fast stage - and it felt like a junior race for 120km! It turned out to be a very hard day, one of those on which you spend a lot of energy. Visma-Lease a Bike did a great race today, as they were very aggressive. I don’t know exactly if they wanted to trouble me, or stress us. Sometimes I don’t know the reason why I attack - even me, I don’t know anymore! I guess I was just enjoying the climb, as it was steep and super nice, and I felt like attacking to test my legs into this third week and see if I could get a gap or something. In the end, it was Remco who put in a super good attack and broke away. Without the Visma guys, he would have put even more time on Jonas and me.”
