00:00I don't enjoy so much sitting in the peloton and waiting for the moves or being reactive and
00:12I like being on the front foot and being able to be the aggressor.
00:16This man is on a mission, 1 minute 12, the gap's very stable.
00:20My dad was always into cycling and took me down the local velodrome and it was always
00:24the sport I wanted to keep going back to, you know, and yeah, I just fell in love with
00:28it and always wanted to be riding my bike.
00:33I grew up in the UK and kind of got rejected by the British cycling system.
00:40My dad's Irish and I was able to reach out to Ireland and ask the ride for them and
00:44yeah, they welcomed me with open arms.
00:50Tour de France 2024.
00:53The whole thing was just an incredible experience to be honest.
00:55The scale of the tour was just something that I couldn't really compare to anything else
01:01and being out front in, like, say, the gravel stage, just like with the crowds on the side
01:05of the road and just the feeling it gives you is just like next level compared to anything
01:09else, I think.
01:10I can kind of turn my hand to anything, apart from sprinting maybe, but just like a long
01:17hard day, whether that's a flat long hard day or a hilly one, then that's absolutely fine,
01:22you know, it's just a really attritional race is the kind of thing that suits me and just
01:27hard racing suits me, I think.
01:29Another attack from the EF Education Easy Post rider.
01:32A mistake I made last year was just going for every single stage, you know, and I think
01:37I need to be more selective.
01:39There's still some goals that I'd like to achieve before I really set my sights on GC.
01:44Only ten riders left now, about to catch Ben Healy.
01:47I'm pretty proud of what I just did, this Ardent, you know, I think I had a really, really
01:52consistent and nice build-up and then to podium a monument, it was, you know, that was always
01:57the big goal.
01:58Giulia Ciccone is going to give Lidl Trek second place in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, third
02:04to Ben Healy.
02:06I'd really love to just complete the trilogy of Grand Tour stages and obviously Tour de France
02:11is a part of that and probably the hardest one to do.
02:17I'd really love to see you guys.
02:20I'd really love to see you guys.
02:22Bye.
