00:00the tour is the tour the stress here was different from other races and yeah it's
00:12it's a one-of-a-kind race it's my sixth tour now and every time we start the tour is always full-on
00:21super exciting also super scary like you you see the speeds everyone's going now and and how hard
00:28the racing is so you will have a roller coaster
00:58it's been already a rough day for everybody stay hard in the head
01:07the dude has no mercy for nobody come on boys
01:13i was fighting my my bike and my legs
01:21it's not that easy to be in a breakaway in the tours
01:23so my tactic has always be top 20 top 30 a position of with a possible reactivity and just sneak
01:31through at the last moment as the most energy efficient efficient way to to be in there but
01:35it's also a little bit of a gamble
01:42today everything is
01:47thought of the mate campion thought of the mate come on
01:49it's
02:04it's the biggest race in the world but it's uh it's for sure
02:11the cruel it's it's a horrible horrible horrible
02:26when the body feels like it wants to give up it's amazing what the mind can do
02:31look at the face of pagacha you were at the limit
02:34some points there's a little bit of hurt for the first time on the yellow jerseys face
02:44today was a brutal day five hours in the saddle and
02:50i'm not sure i've ever done such a hard state on the tour before
02:54so
02:56kachinar what a day he made it to the finish line these riders refuse to give in that's what the tour
03:04de france is all about
03:07they're a team who always ride with an attacking frame of mind aren't they they refuse to believe in
03:14just riding and following
03:16i think i timed it well and hopefully caught my surprise a little bit and
03:40i don't know what i had to do just head down and uh
03:42uh
03:43my best road to finish
04:00where did you find the energy again today yeah i've caught some good legs in the moment
04:08i don't enjoy so much sitting in the peloton and waiting for the moves or being reactive and
04:12i like being on the front foot and being able to be the aggressor
04:19you know i've got nothing to lose now and uh just here to enjoy myself and uh and race hard
04:27last 80 meters bites more than uh more than i thought and uh i just didn't have that extra
04:32gear to keep it to the line
04:33when it is super combatif to do so too exactly the sort of rider that i hope to be when i was
04:43younger i think and uh yeah it's something on the paris that's standing on the podium in
04:46in the park today is going to be uh yeah very special
04:58you
