Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike): "It's a dream to wear the jersey and I don't even know what to say! It's more than what I expected and I'm so, so happy. I can't wait to see my teammates and to share this jersey with them because they have been a big, big part of this victory and this Yellow Jersey. So I just want to give it to everyone and to say thank you to them. The French public have been amazing since the start of the Tour de France [Femmes avec Zwift]. Today on the climb I was really suffering, but I could hear all the people along the road and it was just a good feeling. I’ve worked so hard to get where I am now. I decided to come back on the road and at first was not very successful. I started the season and I worked so hard and the last month, the last two months I did really a lot of training at altitude on the mountain. Today it's paying off, so I am so happy I've done everything to be the best today and to be able to wear this jersey, it means a lot. For sure I will give everything for the jersey tomorrow. My teammates will be there to support me, so it makes me feel a bit more relaxed about it. I’m wearing this jersey today, so even if I don’t win the Tour de France, I will be super happy. It's a dream come true for me. It was so painful the last kilometres also because I wanted to have a gap as big as possible for tomorrow and I also tried to enjoy it, but you know until the finish line is crossed it's not over yet. So I just wanted to go as fast as possible to the finish line."
