00:00Finally, you come a la Vuelta and you are a Grand Tour stage winner.
00:25How was that?
00:26Yeah, it's amazing.
00:27Finally, I've waited, or not waited, but I've been fighting for it for a very long time
00:34and I really wanted that win today and I knew with the parkour you had to go out hard and
00:40just keep it together until the end.
00:42That's what I did.
00:43I suffered a lot today, but I think everyone at the end of this hard Vuelta, and I'm just
00:47so happy that, yeah, I got this win here at the Vuelta, my first Grand Tour stage win
00:53and, yeah, it's been a long time in the making.
00:56Big time gaps.
00:57Is this a masterpiece?
00:58Yeah, I mean, it's always nice if you win with more than half a minute.
01:02It shows that you were absolutely the best.
01:05There was no coincidence today and, yeah, it's really nice and it finally repays all
01:14the work that we do as a team, that we do together with Wilier in developing the new
01:19bike.
01:20Together, also, yeah, we were just working so hard and especially also myself.
01:25I always try to be professional.
01:27I always try to get the maximum out of me and, yeah, it feels good.
01:33It's the money time of Time Trialist, Time Trial today, European Championship, World
01:38Championship at home, Crown of Nations.
01:41Yeah, there is a lot of big individual time trials coming up and when you get the confidence,
01:49you just want to stay on the wave and I also think the Vuelta was for me the best possible
01:54preparation for the home worlds because they're also going to be hard and now it's about
01:59to recover well and the motivation I don't have to look for, it's really, really high
02:06and the confidence is also here so, yeah, I just want to keep it going like this.
02:11And a relief for your team.
02:12It was two and a half years waiting for a Grand Tour stage win.
02:15Yeah, I know things like this are really important also and, yeah, big thanks to the team for
02:19their support through all the years.
02:22They always believed in me and it's nice to pay them back.
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