Julie Bego (Cofidis): "I suffered today. I couldn't reach my usual level of power because I was starting to get tired. As I said at the start of the Tour, I've never raced for nine days in a row; my maximum is four, and even then in short races. This is really different, it's another level, it's very tough every day. I see that it's much harder for me to race day after day, compared to the older riders. On the climbs, I'm doing very well. The problem is that I got dropped on the descent. When I was dropped, I thought Nienke [Vinke] was in the peloton, but then she caught up with me. There were two of us, and we both dropped technically on the descent, not physically on the climb. We did the second climb faster than the peloton because we almost came back into it, just 20 metres behind."
