Madouas: “I didn’t feel great”

March 10 ^th 2022 - 17:15

"The goal was to win the stage, but I was far from making it in the end. I didn’t feel great, so I figured it would be good to fight for the KOM standings. I had Covid [at the end of February], but I was feeling good again, and then I had a big crash in Paris-Nice. I struggled a lot to raise my left arm, I couldn’t get off the saddle. The team worked hard for me to get better and I hope it’ll pay over the week-end, but I’m disappointed when I think of the shape I had 10 days ago. It’s always nice to be on the podium of such a race. The polka dot jersey can be a goal. There are three hard stages ahead, we have a good team to play it out from far away, and we’ll give it our all after we were unlucky in the first part of Paris-Nice."