Franziska Koch (Team Picnic PostNL): "It's not the goal [to get Combative rider awards], but maybe it's a side effect! We go for stage wins and yeah today it wasn't enough, but at least it’s a nice podium. We aimed from the beginning for actually racing aggressively. We have nothing to lose, so we knew the breakaway could be cool and originally I thought there was a little bit more tailwind actually. I was like, ‘OK, why not, we keep trying for a break’ and I hoped for a bigger one, but in the end it was just two of us. It's really nice how we race, we are aggressive. We want to create the race and we also always have another card with a strong sprinter in the end, so it's really fun racing."
