Quotes
Stage 9
12| Elise CHABBEY
Chabbey: "I really enjoyed every day"
Elisa Chabbey (FDJ-Suez): "Every day I told myself it was another day wearing it! It's a jersey that's pretty incredible to win. I really enjoyed every day. It clearly wasn't the team's main objective. But I had this jersey from the first day. I'm quite grateful to the team for letting me keep it and go in the breakaways, because that's how I was able to keep it. I'm super grateful to everyone. From the first climb [today], I exploded. I really wasn't feeling well; I think I paid for the efforts of the last few days. Afterwards I knew it wasn't in my hands. I told myself...
Stage 9
1| Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney
Niewiadoma-Phinney: "I’m super happy to finish on the podium"
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto): "Yesterday was the stage where we could actually see the pure strength of each rider, because the previous stages I feel like everyone was kind of conservative. We all were looking at each other and looking for the moves and the climbs were not big enough, I would say for bigger attacks. It was all about like 4% or 5% gradient, so there was a lot of just waiting for Col de la Madeleine. Anyway, I'm definitely super happy to finish on the podium. Also knowing that every single edition we finished on the podium is something...
Stage 9
11| Demi VOLLERING
Vollering: "We go back to the drawing board"
Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez): "I mean yesterday when I couldn't follow with Sarah [Gigante] and Pauline [Ferrand-Prevot], then afterwards I was pretty sure that it was not so much possible anymore to move to yellow, but still I really wanted to try to move up in GC and also to go for a stage victory, because that's also what I was missing this Tour de France. I came really close a few times, but no stage victory this year. But still I think how we fought as a team the whole day and also the whole Tour de France and I'm really proud of that. In a new team, everything went really...
Stage 9
65| Maeva SQUIBAN
Squiban: "I really didn't expect that"
Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ): "It was a really great Tour for me and for the team, with Dominika [Wlodarczyk] finishing 4th overall. It went really well. There was just the first stage where we struggled a bit. But I think we managed to rectify that afterward. We were also unlucky at the beginning with a lot of sick riders. Then the podium finish in Poitiers gave us confidence for the rest of the week. I wasn't expecting that. I think it's going to be hard to top that now! I was already super happy to have won my combativeness prize in Brittany. I thought my Tour was already...
Stage 9
107| Nienke VINKE
Vinke: "It was a really hard battle"
Nienke Vinke (Team Picnic PostNL): "It's always special to win a jersey in a Grand Tour and especially in the Tour de France, so I'm happy with it. It was a really hard battle throughout the race with Julie Bego, but I think after yesterday I had quite a big gap. So for today the battle was not that hard anymore, but the rest of the week it was a hard battle for sure. [How have you trained for this?] Just hard work and dedication to cycling. I'm just happy that all the training and hard work finished off in the jersey. [Can you win the Yellow Jersey one day?] That’s...
Stage 9
47| Lorena WIEBES
Wiebes: "Finally a Tour de France without bad luck!"
Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime): "I’m really just so happy to take this Green Jersey! We needed to survive these hard two last stages and we did pretty good, so I’m really happy. I think this is finally a Tour de France without bad luck. The first edition I crashed out and the second edition I got sick and last year it was also not our best Tour. So finally everything fell in to place and I'm very grateful for the team that they gave me the chance to go for it. For sure it would be nice to have one more time the yellow jersey on the shoulders, but for sure next...
Stage 9
51| Pauline FERRAND PREVOT
Ferrand-Prevot: "I just want to say thank you!"
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Team Visma | Lease a Bike): “I came back on the road after my Olympic title, and I said I will try to win the Tour de France in the next three years. So here I am, the first one! It was an amazing season with my team. My teammates worked super hard for me all week long. I just want to say thank you and congrats to them, to my entire team, I love you so much girls, and thank you for everything really! I dreamed of winning in yellow. This morning, I told the sports director that if we can, we'll try to win in yellow, we'll do it. It went...
Stage 8
107| Nienke VINKE
Vinke: "I really suffered today"
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...
Stage 8
12| Elise CHABBEY
Chabbey: "We still had a great stage"
Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez): "The goal was to get into the breakaway with Evita [Muzic] to give a relay in the final. I didn't really follow what happened, but apparently it didn't work out the way we really wanted. But we tried, we still had a great stage with two of us at the front and that allowed me to keep the jersey. [Wearing the polka dot jersey in La Madeleine] It was pretty crazy. With the crowd there, all those people in the polka dot jersey. It was the jersey with the most representation in La Madeleine!"
Stage 8
51| Pauline FERRAND PREVOT
Ferrand-Prevot: "It’s a dream come true"
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...
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