00:02You said this morning, your wife is always the boss. Did your wife ask you to do all that today?
00:08QM points, break away, break away again and win.
00:12Yeah, she's very demanding.
00:18I just had a call with them, with my boys and with Sara.
00:22It's for sure support that I need to do these performances and I want to say hi to them.
00:29What was the plan?
00:32The plan was to go in the break.
00:34It was, I think, a very difficult stage to control.
00:38We knew, I met you, me, Bruno, Christophe, we had some guys that are very good in a stage like
00:44this.
00:46We tried to be up there with a few riders so we could always play it and that worked out
00:52perfectly.
00:53Me and Bruno were the whole day, a long part of the day in the wheels because we had Mehdi
01:00in the front group.
01:01And then we could bridge over on the last climb and, yeah, me and Mehdi in a group like that,
01:09yeah, we both have a chance.
01:11But we were also able to sacrifice it for each other so we kept on attacking and the final attack
01:18worked.
01:193.5km to go, was that planned also?
01:24I had it a little bit in my mind, yes. I saw the profile and I knew there was this
01:28last kicker before coming into the village.
01:32And this distance a lot of time is the moment when people start to think about the sprint and if
01:38you're able to open up a gap then they don't want to close it for each other anymore.
01:41And, yeah, it was close enough to the finish to be worth it and with Valentin had a nice companion,
01:50he gave me a few turns and it was nice to battle to the line together.
01:54Congratulations on this 15th win in the Grand Tour.
01:57Wow, I'm super proud of that, thank you.
