"I am feeling very well at the Tour and today in Issoudun was keen to contest the sprint to try to win my time.
He was very well placed to last mile, in seventh or eighth.
The final was very technical, with a succession of difficult corners and in the absence of some five hundred meters to the finish line, we have been open Haussler, and then Duke in the second half.
There I had to climb ten meters so that it became impossible to reach the sprint to the first and fight for victory.
It is a shame because I felt strong after a quiet stage, and would have liked to at least have the option to measure me to Cavendish.
The final was much more difficult and dangerous than it was on the road book and the fact of running today without the earpiece did not allow risk managers tell us that we would find.
Fortunately there has been only one this coming fall but was not worthy of the Tour.
Luckily, people will more tired and less nervous now, but I do not want to imagine what could happen in an influx of this type in the first week of the race. "
Source: Agencias