00:00Mathieu Van der Boel, you've been a world champion, you've won Roubaix, you've won Flanders,
00:06you've won Milan-Saint-Raymo, but you really wanted to win on the Champs-Elysées.
00:10What does it mean for you?
00:12A lot.
00:14Already, yeah, a year I was thinking about this when I was sick last year and had to
00:20watch this stage on television.
00:22I was already thinking about this moment and then the way it went, it's a dream.
00:27But what a battle, what a monumental battle.
00:31It's incredible, yeah, it was super hard and then to be up there with the best rider in
00:36the world, all my respect for today and yeah, I thought we were gonna get caught back but
00:43then I was just thinking about this moment and I just put my head down in the last 500
00:48meters, I just, I just went as hard as I could and I was just waiting until a wheel was
00:53coming
00:54past and it didn't happen, didn't happen and yeah, and in the very end I see a Pirelli
00:59tire next to me and it's the one from Jasper and yeah, it just, it shows, yeah, we never
01:05give up.
01:06Maybe the start of our tour was not good but yeah, one and two on Champs-Elysées, I think
01:11that's pretty good.
01:12And you win two stages on this Tour de France, you couldn't ask for much better.
01:17No, not at all, I'm super happy but yeah, if there was one race I still wanted to win
01:24in my career, I have a few of course but this was one of them.
01:28You finish absolutely empty.
01:33Yeah, we have a saying in Dutch that it has to come from your toes but I don't know where
01:38this came from but not from my toes, I don't know where it came from.
01:42Congratulations.
01:43Congratulations.
