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Van Niekerk: 'I believed right to the end'
Morné Van Niekerk (St Michel-Mavic-Auber93): 'If you are at the front here, we know that you don't use up any more energy than you do at the back, and you can even keep it up if you get it right. We were a good group, and what's more, it was the biggest breakaway I've ever experienced here. That helped me enormously. I was a few kilometres short. I'm pleased to get another...
Gautherat : 'I told myself I would attack at the last kilometre'
Pierre Gautherat (Décathlon AG2R La Mondiale): 'I made a first serious effort 60 km from the finish. I fell, trying to avoid a rider who went down in front of me. I went to the right, hit a small pile of gravel and slid. I wasn't hurt, but I scraped my side. Maybe I panicked a bit too soon. I saw a group of 30 ahead of me. I had to make up 15 seconds and finally caught...
De Lie : ‘I was phenomenal’.
Arnaud De Lie (Lotto Dstny) : 'I stayed super calm, and that's what helped me win. I had a first puncture, and changing the wheel took me a long time. We started a chase to catch up and it took time. I had a front/rear puncture, but the tubeless fixed it, and I still had two bars in each tyre. I didn't want to change; I had to keep going because I would have lost...
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