Urko Berrade (Team Kern Pharma): “Without a doubt, it's a dream. The stage closer to home, with all my family watching me, friends, in the last stages of La Vuelta... When there are so few opportunities left it seemed complicated to get a stage. I've been close in others, but it's incredible. As we had strength in numbers after the hardest climb of the day, I've been controlling the group so that Pau [Miquel] could have his chance as an our fast man. But at the end, that last climb, with everyone pretty cooked, they told me: ‘You all have a chance, try it.’ I tried from there almost without looking back, I tried not to look back. They told me: ‘To the finish line, to the finish line!’ I didn't see myself as the winner until I crossed the finish line. No doubt it comes from a great previous work that we have done. Since the beginning of the season we had La Vuelta in mind. We have made an impressive preparation, and this is not the result of chance. At the beginning of La Vuelta, Juanjo [Oroz], the team manager, told me: ‘You have to become famous’. And it's difficult for me because I'm not a big media guy, but I think, with this victory, maybe I have a chance.”
