JAY VINE: DID YOU GO IN THE BREAK FOR YOU, OR FOR THE TEAM?
“It was definitely to win the stage. But there was always the option that if the break wasn’t going to win that I could come back and do some work. So, it was always on the cards to have me in the breakaway to do something if it came back together.
I know these roads pretty well. I live down the hill and Comella is my favourite climb in all of Andorra. I would have normally liked to have done it way harder but with the headwind it was harder to get the guys to pull through. So I left it to the top, and with the wet descent… I know it really well, I thought this is my chance to get away. There’ll be no funny business, just mano a mano.
I got the call-up to do this race four weeks ago – it wasn’t on my original schedule, so to be able to win in front of my son and my wife, it’s unbelievable. Incredibly motivating the last 5k. All I could think was “This is for you, Harrison. This is for you.” Get there as quick as possible.”