Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ): “It’s amazing. I’ve been fighting for a Grand Tour stage win for a very long time. I really wanted that win today and I knew with this parcours you had to go out hard and keep it together until the end. That’s what I did I suffered a lot today but I think everyone did at the end of this hard Vuelta. And I’m just so happy that I got this win. It’s been a long time in the making. It’s always nice if you win with more than half a minute. It shows that you were absolutely the best, it was no coincidence today. It’s really nice and it finally repays all the work that we do as a team, that we do together with Wilier developing the new bike. We’ve just worked so hard, also myself. I always try to be professional, I always try to get the maximum out of me. It feels good. There is a lot of big individual time trials coming up and when you get the confidence, you just want to stay on the wave. I also think the Vuelta was for me the best possible preparation for the home Worlds because they’re also gonna be hard.”
