00:00After the other day, maybe I was doubting a bit more, but I think today I showed my
00:18real me, to be honest, and I'm super happy with how it went, and super happy with the
00:23legs I had today, and yeah, today was a different feeling than I had the other day, to be honest,
00:29and yeah, super happy with the victory, obviously, and with the performance I did.
00:34It's a bit of a relief, though, to show that you didn't have a chance.
00:39Well, I don't know if it was a relief, but at least I'm super happy.
00:43I know this is my level, and yeah, I'm super happy and super proud of my performance today.
00:49It was, I think it was a good time trial for me, and I really enjoyed it out there.
00:56You talked about the change of your preparation.
00:58How did you feel it affected you on that race?
01:00The what, sorry?
01:01The change of your preparation, not going into altitude camp.
01:04Yeah, maybe it was a bit on the first day, maybe, that I needed to get a little bit more
01:11in the rhythm than I normally do, and yeah, today I felt super, super good, and yeah,
01:19I'm really happy and looking forward for the upcoming races as well.
01:24Was it difficult to beat João Almeida, the Portuguese rider?
01:27Yeah, I mean, I was not focusing on beating anyone, I was more focusing on my own race.
01:32I was focusing on optimizing everything for today, optimizing my own performance today,
01:39just doing the best I could, and yeah, I did so, and I'm super happy to do the performance that I did.
01:49What was the process of decision of changing or not changing the bike?
01:53Well, I mean, I think, for me at least, I saw that it was a really short time, so,
02:01to change the bike for me, you would have to be able to push a lot more watts on your normal bike,
02:07because you lose quite a bit of time, so, yeah, in that case, we thought it was better for me
02:12to go on a normal bike.
02:14Good start for a great season?
02:17I hope so, yeah, now getting to victory today is super nice,
02:24and yeah, hopefully it will be a great season, I will do everything I can,
02:29and hopefully also in the next races it will go well for me.
02:32If you can, would you return to Portugal next year to follow Algarve again?
02:38Yeah, I mean, I really enjoyed it here and it was a really nice race,
02:43so, I don't want to rule it out, I really enjoyed my time,
02:48so, it depends on what the goals are next year and everything,
02:53but it could be that I will come back for sure.
02:56Who knows, thank you very much.
02:57Jonas, how was it to beat Wout van Aert today in the time trial?
03:04Yeah, I mean, of course, maybe it was not the Wout that I was thinking about mostly,
03:11but I saw on the television before I started that Wout did a very good time,
03:16so, I knew he would be up there, but I wasn't really focusing on him,
03:21I was focusing more on myself, so to speak, and just to do the best,
03:26and yeah, focusing more on the general classification,
03:30and yeah, of course, if you want to win the general classification,
03:33yeah, you have to go full and don't think about anything else than that.
03:42But it's nice to see you both, you and Wout, together on top today,
03:46this stage.
03:48Yeah, for sure, I mean, I think both Wout and me have had a bit of,
03:53until today, an almost week, so to say, and then today we really showed that,
04:00yeah, that we have the level to still be there,
04:05and I'm super happy for Wout as well, and of course,
04:08I would have liked Wout to win the stage as well.
04:17I'm, of course, very, very happy.
04:20It was a very good day for me, for the team.
04:23Of course, I'm very happy to take the overall victory,
04:26and take the revenge from the other day.
04:29So, of course, I'm super happy and super proud.
04:34My daughter said earlier today that I had to win today,
04:38so that gave me extra motivation to win for her.
04:41You still have big wings.
04:43What is your opinion about this Krono?
04:46About what, sorry?
04:47About this Krono, this TT.
04:49Oh, it was a very nice TT.
04:51I really enjoyed it today, of course.
04:54You want the same next year?
04:56Yeah, I mean, it was a nice TT, and yeah, I always like TTs like this,
05:01and of course, it also suits me well, and it depends on whether you have good legs or not.
05:07I mean, if you don't have great legs, then it's also not a nice TT,
05:11then actually the opposite.
05:13So, today I had great legs, and I'm happy to finish it off.
05:18Do you feel confident for the season?
05:20Yeah, I mean, as I said before, I'm feeling good,
05:24and I was very happy to do very, very well today.
05:29I think I did a very, very good time trial,
05:31and yeah, I'm super happy and super proud,
05:34and looking forward to the next part of the season.
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