REACTION / Annemiek van Vleuten:
โItโs a good feeling. Itโs nice to win a stage, and also winning this TT on my Canyon bike from Tokyo makes me extra happy. Itโs been nice to catch up with my Tokyo bike after some really nice moments in japan. I ended up choosing the TT bike – we werenโt so sure, because it was a little bit as fast on the road bike as on the TT one, yet I picked the TT one because Iโve spent so many training rides on it, so Iโm happy that choice ended up being a winning one.
โAfter yesterday, I already knew it would be really hard with Marlen Reusser, being in really good form and with a two-minute advance. On the other hand, Iโm super excited about tomorrow, because I donโt like defending. I struggle when I have to use that defending attitude in stageraces. In my heart, Iโm an attacker, I donโt like racing conservatively. Iโve got nothing to lose tomorrow and lots to win. I just hope other teams think like that, so we wonโt give it as a present to Marlen Reusser, make things hard for her to win and offer a good show for people watching on TV tomorrow.โ |