Nienke Vinke (Team Picnic PostNL): "I’m happy that I’m still in white. I suffered a lot today because the start was immediately a big climb uphill and the pace was really high. The whole day it was hard except for some of the riding in the valleys. I was a bit unlucky because I had a flat tyre and the car was quite far behind, so it was a stressful moment and then I had to push quite hard to make the gap smaller. That was a bit unlucky because I started the Madeleine quite far behind the bunch. So I really suffered today, but I think everyone had a hard day and this climb [Madeleine] was so hard. I think after the second last climb she [Julie Bego, rival for the white jersey] was dropped so that was a really good situation for me as I was in the first group. Then it was unlucky that I got the flat tyre, because otherwise I could have started the climb already in front of her. In the end it was fine because I made it back to her before the climb, so we started together and I was just a bit faster."
