Tadej Pogacar: “Always a pleasure to ride in such a beautiful city like Paris”

“I’m roughly positive of my total victory, however I nonetheless don’t wish to say something about it. I wish to keep centered, together with my staff, till I’ve crossed the final end line in Paris. It is all the time a pleasure to experience in such a giant, stunning metropolis like Paris is. That’s one of the stunning elements of this sport. We are 180 guys who spend weeks driving within the mountains and ultimately, rapidly, we come to the streets of one of many largest cities on this planet.

I’m not sure of how the ultimate stage will pan out. It gained’t be a Classic, as a result of we come after 20 levels and the course is comparatively brief, and that may make for a fairly punchy effort. We will make plans relying on how we really feel after getting into the ultimate circuit and assessing the dangers we might take. We have guys like me or Jhonatan Narvaez who can go for the win.

Today was full fuel racing, particularly throughout the first hour – up and down, left and proper, underneath heavy rain. It was fairly harmful and even the Yellow Jersey may have been in danger in some unspecified time in the future.”