00:04We saw you struggling in the first few days of the Tour de France.
00:08We were a bit worried, but you're still around and today you proved it.
00:13Yeah, it was a super hard day.
00:17The start of the Tour was not great for our team,
00:21but I think, like always, we stayed calm.
00:23We have a really nice group here and we kept believing that I will turn around.
00:27And maybe not today, maybe second week, maybe third week.
00:30But yeah, it's really nice to go to the first rest day with a win.
00:34And clearly you adapted to the heat.
00:39Sorry.
00:40No, it was for sure better than the first few days.
00:44I was really struggling and also had some difficulties to recover even from the easier days.
00:50Yeah, today, yeah, already the past two days I felt a bit better.
00:53Of course, it were easier days, but today I finally had some legs to go for it.
01:00Talk us through that final sprint against Pitcock, against Johannesson.
01:06Yeah, I was not so sure.
01:08I spent a lot of energy trying to keep the break alive.
01:12There was a lot of pressure from the bunch.
01:14The roads were horrible for a breakaway.
01:17I had to win the whole day.
01:19And yeah, we really, we fought for it.
01:22And yeah, I'm happy to finish it off.
01:24The Van der Poel Festival starts today.
01:27There will be more episodes on this Tour de France.
01:29Maybe it's a one day festival, but at least it was a nice one.
01:33Enjoy. Thank you.
