00:00Tadej Pogacar, rarely have we seen you celebrate so much and be so happy after a victory.
00:06This one really meant a lot for you.
00:08I think I celebrated the same like always.
00:13But still, it's L'Alpe d'U.S. and it's your first victory at L'Alpe d'U.S.
00:16It's very cool to win up here and yeah, it was crazy, crazy atmosphere all the climb
00:23and yeah, it was thanks to all the team that I could pull it off in the end.
00:31And yeah, I was riding for the teammates today and yeah, I'm super happy to take the win.
00:37It was a pretty ambitious plan, it was a Pogacar plan to take off early on the final climb.
00:43Yeah, when I heard some of the guys drop when Felix was pulling super good pace
00:49in the beginning of the climb, I knew that yeah, I mean already the climb before we could,
00:55we were going full gas because the breakaway was so strong.
00:59We were going full gas all day and then at the beginning, first kilometer of L'Alpe d'U.S.
01:03I knew that yeah, it's a good, I have good legs and there's not many guys left that
01:11that maybe can follow or try to go with me, so I tried and yeah, then I committed to the
01:18top.
01:18I have Adam in the middle, gave me big moral boost and I was super happy that he is finally
01:25back
01:25and after that day of TT he was so bad and yeah, I was super happy to ride behind him
01:33for a couple of kilometers on the climb and yeah, in the end I had to fight off against super
01:41good riders
01:42but they were playing a bit with each other in the end so this helped me to catch up and
01:47win the stage.
01:49It's a sign to the world to show that the UAE boys are in great shape and that today Pogacar
01:54is in even better shape.
01:56Yeah, good shape, I mean just go day by day and tomorrow is the final, tomorrow is the queen stage
02:05of the Tour and then
02:07yeah, I hope that Paris will be a nice day and super shiny but yeah, tomorrow is the hardest day
02:16of the Tour.
02:17Because you've already entered the legend of this sport, now you want to maybe do even more and win two
02:24days consecutively on Alpe d'Huez.
02:27I mean, yeah, now we won and tomorrow we see, we go our own rhythm, our own plan tomorrow and
02:40yeah, we don't care about anything else,
02:43we just do like we do every day, stick as a team together and do our best as a team
02:50and then we see what happens.
02:51You're very comfortable in the lead and Isaac Del Toro is third and increases his advantage on the fourth place,
02:58that's good news as well.
02:59Good news, yeah, good news and yeah, yeah, today was, yeah, I mean, maybe my day to take an opportunity
03:13to win
03:13and tomorrow we, yeah, we, we make sure that Isaac fights for the, for this beautiful white jersey and podium.
03:22See you tomorrow.
03:23See you tomorrow.
03:24Stay there.
