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  • 14/05/2025
Follow the live press conference of today’s stage winner. His immediate impressions, the key moments of the race, and his answers to questions from professional cycling journalists.

Segui in diretta la conferenza stampa del vincitore della tappa odierna. Le sue sensazioni a caldo, i momenti chiave della tappa e le sue risposte alle domande dei giornalisti di settore.

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00:00We start the press conference of Stage Winner and Maglia Rosa Mats Pedersen.
00:30The questions will be in English and we translate everything at the end.
00:36Let's start from here, Ciro.
01:00How many years ago?
01:01Something big?
01:02You are impressed by yourself, by what you achieved?
01:07Of course, this is insane, you know, it's more that we dreamt about to be able to do this.
01:13We wanted to be as good as possible in Albania and we came to get the pink jersey there.
01:20And now to win three stages out of five, it's absolutely insane.
01:23And that's more than we dreamt about.
01:25So I'm super proud of the team and everyone is so committed to to make this possible.
01:31So, yeah, as you said, you know, I don't care too much about the history about this.
01:37It's also because, you know, if the mountain stage would have been put in today, it wouldn't
01:42have been possible.
01:43So also the race has to be suited for this.
01:46So all in all, I'm just super happy and super proud of what we're achieving right now.
01:51Press room.
01:52Press room.
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01:54Press room.
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01:58Press room.
01:59Press room.
02:00Subito.
02:01Mads, could you talk us through the last two and a half kilometers from the climb when
02:09Primoz Roglic accelerated and you lost 20 or 30 places, but Vacek stayed on the front.
02:16Was that to keep the pace high, but controlled and make sure nothing slipped away to give you
02:21a chance to get back on?
02:25So when Primoz, he went, I told Vacek to to stay with him because, you know, if they would
02:31have going away, Vacek would have a really good chance of winning the stage also.
02:37So I was really suffering down on the first part of the climb and Vacek, he deserved
02:42also to grab the chance if it was possible.
02:44But this kid was riding incredible smart and when it started to be more flat and going down,
02:51he was slowing down the whole group so I could make up some spots again in some again in some
02:55of the corners.
02:57And then, yeah, he's just again doing an incredible good and long lead out.
03:02So him and the team car made it possible today with a good guidance in the last three kilometers.
03:10So I would say this this win is definitely a good sign of how teamwork is working.
03:17I was looking at your season, you started very good at Tour de la Provence in February.
03:29And then your shape was always good for two, three months.
03:34Did you change your training?
03:35Did you change your preparation?
03:37Because it's a very, very long period of good, good, good shape.
03:43No, we didn't change too much.
03:46I trained some more hours this winter, but it's not, you know, major.
03:51We put in some more endurance load on this this whole season to to make it possible to keep
03:59the shape this long.
04:02But we also agreed on me and my coach and the team that going into the Giro after the
04:07classics, we had to go all in for this pink jersey in the beginning of the Giro because
04:12we you know, maybe the shape or the engine will will pop at one point doing during the race.
04:18We don't know, we don't hope so, but it can be at one point that it starts to go the
04:23other direction.
04:24And then it's it's nice to have the victories already now if it's going, you know, the wrong
04:29direction after 15 stages or something like this.
04:33I was curious to know your opinion about the action of Primoz Roglic that you mentioned.
04:43Your opinion has been an action just to be in the front and not in trouble or it gives you
04:51the impression to try to find something to drop some rivals?
04:57I would say Primoz, he's a racer also, you know, he wants he wants to win bike races and
05:03this would be a good final for him as well.
05:07And let's say they go away 10, 15 riders with all the GC guys.
05:11He's normally the fastest in a group like that.
05:16So I understand that he wants to try and make some action and win stages as well.
05:24If I was in his shoes, I would have done exactly the same and tried to make some action and
05:28win a stage as well.
05:30Hi Matt, congrats again and in that finish line, we kind of saw you not celebrate much
05:37over the line.
05:38How deep you had to go to get back on in the sprint and then hold everyone off in the
05:41final?
05:42Oh man, this was like everything it's, it's as deep as I can, you know, almost like
05:49when a match or today they dropped me on the equipment, you know, it's, it's today
05:56was everything.
05:57I didn't have anything left to, to even lift the arms.
06:00So yeah, man, I was going really, really deep to make this happen today.
06:06Matt, in Italy, we are very proud for the fact that Luca Giorcilena is the most important
06:18team manager, Italian team manager, probably one of the most important Italian in cycling.
06:23How is your relation with Luca, how is important Luca in your career?
06:28Luca is super important for my career, you know, he was the guy who gave me the trust in
06:36in, in, in my temple.
06:37You know, it was never forced that I had to do, you know, crazy results after my second
06:43place.
06:44And for me, you know, I can't thank him enough for giving me this trust and always let me
06:58develop in, in, in my temple.
07:00tempo you know it was never forced that i had to do you know crazy result after my second place in
07:05flanders in 18 or anything like this so you know luca he's the key guy for this team and he he will
07:13keep being the key guy for this team and i'm proud of being able to work with him and
07:18and yeah as mentioned earlier today i'm probably proud to to also finish my career with him it's
07:25it means a lot to me did you know before the eduardo zambanini the guy from bahrain that was
07:35almost really close to take this victory did you already know him yeah i i knew him but i didn't
07:41knew he was this fast in in a sprint uh but you know when you're there in a final you're a really
07:48really good bike rider and he was really impressive today and it was a really strong sprint so
07:53you know he's one of the guys that have to be aware of when we have to do finals like this in the
07:58future
08:05thank you everyone last one
08:08well you already mentioned this in the mixture in mixed zone at the center point you thought that the
08:13race was over for you when today when when you dropped you thought that maybe was finished your
08:19rope for the victory oh yeah yeah you know when when i started to lose positions on this deep part i
08:25was like it's gonna be really tough to to make it back to to win and there i was like okay the win is
08:32gone but i had to try to get as many points as possible for the ciclamino but yeah then the rest we
08:39already talked about thank you thank you very much congratulations iniziamo adesso la traduzione
08:46della conferenza stampa di matt spedersen è un grandissimo risultato sono il primo ad essere
08:53impressionato qualcosa di veramente difficile da ottenere siamo partiti con l'idea di voler fare
08:58bene in albania prendere la maglia rosa però arrivare qui con tre tappe vinte su cinque qualcosa di
09:03incredibile più di un sogno siamo tutti orgogliosi di ciò che abbiamo fatto tutto il team come detto
09:09negli altri giorni non sono un appassionato di storia del ciclismo e sono statistiche che alla
09:13fine lasciano eh il tempo che trovano perché ci fosse stata una tappa di montagna sarebbe stato
09:18impossibile ottenere dei risultati così quindi sono veramente felice eh negli ultimi due chilometri
09:24e mezzo quando c'è stato all lungo di primo stroglic abbiamo intuito che anche vacek stava bene e che
09:31avrebbe potuto vincere la tappa eh io stavo soffrendo e pensavo che lui aveva comunque
09:36diritto a una chance vista la gamba che ha mostrato in questi giorni però lui è stato molto altruista
09:41intelligente in pianura ha rallentato il gruppo e sono riuscito a rimontare poi ha fatto un
09:45incredibile lead out sono stati tre chilometri pazzeschi e questa vittoria è un grande segno di
09:50unità e di spirito di gruppo rispetto agli anni scorsi non abbiamo cambiato molto la preparazione ho
09:56lavorato forse un po di più questo inverno ma abbiamo cercato di fare dei blocchi eh specifici per rimanere
10:01in forma più a lungo eh avevamo l'obiettivo della maglia rosa quindi dopo le classiche abbiamo iniziato
10:06a lavorare con questo obiettivo in testa eh abbiamo pensato anche che magari andrò in difficoltà nella
10:10seconda parte di giro quindi è meglio accumulare eh delle vittorie e punti anche per la la maglia
10:15ciclamino Primoz ha attaccato perché lui come me vuole vincere e qui siamo qui a fare una gara è
10:22normale che se lui avesse avesse attaccato e avrebbe sarebbero partiti magari dieci o quindici
10:30corridori di classifica lui sarebbe stato il più veloce e anch'io avrei fatto lo stesso nello sprint
10:35ho dato veramente tutto ero a tutta un po' come quando fanno anche Van Der Poel o Pogacar è stata
10:41una sensazione incredibile essere riuscito a vincere Luca Quercilene è una persona molto importante per la
10:46mia carriera mi ha dato fiducia fin dal 2016 quando correvo in una continental mi ha fatto firmare mi ha
10:52portato nel world tour e mi ha sempre detto che sei diventato un big quindi io non posso ringraziarlo
10:57mai abbastanza non ha mai voluto affrettare i tempi e anche dopo il secondo posto a Fiandre nel
11:012018 mi ha sempre detto di stare tranquillo che il mio giorno sarebbe il mio momento sarebbe arrivato
11:06è stata una persona chiave sono orgoglioso di aver lavorato con lui e di lavorare con lui finendo la
11:11carriera qua conosco molto bene Edoardo Zambanini non pensavo che fosse così veloce in uno sprint
11:18a ranghi diciamo ridotti eh se sei in un gruppo così nel finale vuol dire che sei che sei forte e dovremo
11:26stare attento a lui nel finale negli anni prossimi su finali di corsa del genere eh quando ho perso
11:34posizioni nella nel punto più pendente della salita finale pensavo che sarebbe stato difficile
11:39rimontare però ho pensato non solo alla vittoria di tappa ma anche a cercare di piazzarmi se non avessi
11:45potuto trattare per la vittoria avrei comunque voluto fare i più punti possibili per la maglia ciclamino
11:50grazie
11:56grazie
11:58grazie

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