168澳洲5最新开奖结果:John Degenkolb (Trek-Segafredo) - stage winner

Pu💞re happiness. Really - I꧒ was chasing the victory so long. It's really hard to describe.

It was a really hard fight all day. It is also a victory of the team. We really had a pl𓂃an to stay out of trouble ♉all the time, and it worked out really well. It was unbelievable.

This is a ver🍰y big victory - since a long time... I have been through a lot o𒁃f things – it was such a hard time. I'm so happy to dedicate this victory to one of my best friends - he passed away last winter. This was really something for him.

Everybody said I'm done, after this accident I will never come back. I said no, I'm not done. I have to make at least one really big vi🎐ctory for this guy, his name is Jörg. He was my second father. It was a horrible accident, and it is a huge loss without him. I'm so happy to get this victory now for him.

There's no way to make♓ it more dramatic, more nice, more fantastic. I'm totally overwhelmed.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) race leader

I wanted to do as good as possible, and winning in yellow would be something really special. That was in my head, the closer we came to the 🀅finish I started believ♎ing it.

It's a big disappointment to me not to win it, but that's how it is sometimes. Maybe I should hౠave star꧒ted my sprint a little earlier, but that's after the race.

Overall, I kept the jersey, made a great race out of it - I'm really happy wi🐈th my first week.

We lost Richie already after 10k. It was a big disappointment for the whole team because we wer💧e here to bring him to Paris. It was not a great start, but we tried to make the best out of it, tried to put Tejay in front. But the GC guys their struggle always seems to be on c🦩obbles. Then I just did my own race, tried to make the team happy, and that's what I did I think.

I rather would have won a stage, but that's h💧ow it is. I'm really happy with the first week - all week in the yellow is something special for me also. With BMC with the stage win already⛦ - now we can do the second and third week a little more relaxed and try to do as good as possible.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo)

It’s great. We made a pla♔n yesterday and we knew that this was the best chance for a stage win. The plan was to look after Bauke [Mollema] and myself and John could go for the stage. I think we played it perfectly.

I just wanted to stay out of trouble today so I was at the ♔front.

We had some bad luck with Bauke but he managed to come back. I think the other guys did a really great job, especially Toms. He did amazing and also Gogl gave his bike. Th♔at was good team work. [Eurosport]

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Floors) - third on stage 9

With the heat and the dust it wasn’t an easy day. Every section we were fighting to be in the fr🅠ont. I managed well. I h🦩ad to change bikes halfway through the race but I came back. I felt that I still had power in the legs and then I had to think a lot about where I would attack. I did it on Camphin en Pevel.

We went with three guys, me, Greg𒀰 Van Avermaet and John Degenkolb, two of the world’s best Classics riders. I was happy that I would do a breakaway with those guys. In the sprint, I knew it would be hard. Maybe I should have tried to go away but it’s tough. [Eurosport]

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb)

It was crazy, especially the 𝄹first 50k before the cobblestones. It was the most terrifying moments in my life on the bike. Afterwards, it was kind of alright. I have good legs but it was really difficult to make a difference with the other GC riders𓆏.

It was really unfortunate for Richie. I wℱould have really liked to sꦅee him battle it out in the mountains. He was in really good shape but that’s racing I guess. It’s very unfortunate. We knew that not 100 per cent of the GC riders would get through the first nine days together.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dan Martin (UAE Team Emirates)

Was it a Sunday in Hell or half a Sunday in Hell? I said before the start that I was going to try and enjoy the stage. I don't know if enjoy was the right word but I think all the adrenaline… I had a crash yesterday and my back is a differen🉐t story. It looks like a bit of a pizza back there. They boys did a great job on the first two or three sections. I’m still in the fight for the podium.

I was fighting for the front at the start but I figured that I couldn't do that♈ all day so I eased back. You might have seen me near the back eating and drinking but I was trying to keep my legs fresh for the final. When we did the recon, we got to Roubaix and I was completely cooked. I knew it would be a really long, hard day𝓡. It was just about staying composed and knowing that the race would come back to you if it did split.

The boys stayed 💧with me whatever happened and in the end I had the legs to be up there in the final.