Kasper Asgreen (Soudal-Quick Step), winner of the 18th stage of the Tour de France arriving in Bourg-en-Bresse on Thursday:
“Obviously the situation wasn’t ideal, I would have liked to leave with more riders but it’s the last week of the Tour, it’s not the first time that a small group has managed to beat the sprinter teams. I believed it! It’s a combination of factors that made us win with also good legs, all the same, for the four breakaways. The Tour was difficult for us, Fabio (Jakobsen) had to retire after his crash. Us, we fought in the last few weeks, we were still not far away but we were never able to grab a victory. I had ticked the day of today and that of tomorrow. I was very motivated to give something back to the whole team, my teammates, all the people who help us. I wanted to go for the stage victory.”
