Quotes
Stage 1
21| Elisa LONGO BORGHINI
Longo Borghini: "Very happy with my third place"
Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ): "I felt good and that's also thanks to the work of my teammates. They made sure I was positioned really well, especially in Cherave and at the foot of the Mur. I gave everything I had 100 metres from the finish, I was pushing hard, and I'm very happy with my third place. I arrived here as an outsider, and I will be again for Liège-Bastogne-Liège. I feel in very good shape, I feel fresh, mentally and physically. On Sunday, I hope it will be decided in La Redoute; it would be a more favorable scenario, the right place to attack....
Stage 1
86| Puck PIETERSE
Pieterse: “I knew I just had to wait”
Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck): “In a race like this, it was actually quite easy to stay calm because I think almost all the teams wanted to wait until the last climb. So it was just a case of waiting and I knew that before, so we tried to just wait a lot and just stay active during the race, not falling asleep before important points, but luckily the team was always there to give me a good lead out. Demi (Vollering) got a really good lead out from Juliette (Labous) and I decided to stick on the wheel and just wait, wait, wait a bit longer and then I think halfway...
Stage 1
11| Demi VOLLERING
Vollering: “I'm really grateful for what Juliette did”
Demi Vollering (FDJ – SUEZ): "Juliette (Labous) did a very strong job on the last climb, so I'm really grateful for what she did there and also my other teammates earlier in the race. They did really good teamwork in the beginning by always putting us in the front and following the first attacks. Then later in the race, Lea (Curinier) and Elise (Chabbey), who started to chase very, very strong and Evita (Muzic) and Juliette bringing me in position for the final. Juliette did a really, really strong last climb so it's really nice to have a teammate like that who can...
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