Jay Vine (UAE Team Emirates): “Yes, we spoke with Marc [Soler] on the rest day that I had an unfinished business, and Marc agreed that he would help me on the last day. He was able to help to tire out the other two that were trying to go for the the points, and also to keep me super fresh, so that I could go into the finale of the stage and try to keep the team GC as well. It turns out we didn’t need that because we had Isaac [Del Toro] finishing ahead of me, but he helped out a lot and his legs were super strong. He’s a really great teammate. I was told that I needed to take just one more point [on the penultimate climb], and it was all secure. We were really under pressure from the guys behind, that caught us before that cat-2 climb before the cat-1. It would have been all the play for the GC guys to try to take the jersey, so we had to go a really long way into the finale.”
