[BidoneJack]

“Michael brought me perfectly into the final climb before the last kilometer. In itself that is a difficult maneuver, as everybody wants to have the front. So I was in a perfect position with a kilometer to go, as we hit the ramp. Straightaway, I took the front on the climb, not to push it all the way to the line, but to see if I could open up the race and provoke a selection. I eased off after 300-400 meters but in retrospect I probably should have reacted to Van Poppel. I was mainly focused on Gilbert and I expected him to follow suit, as Van Poppel continued but he wasn’t there. Two seconds after, Van Poppel had a big gap and we could catch him”