Out of luck today, tomorrow’s another day

Before the key group went away he was constantly at the front to make sure nobody escaped. “I was in three breakaways but unfortunately, none of them was the decisive one. When I got away with those ten riders, our prospects looked good. We built up an advantage of 30 seconds but the French rider Jeannesson, who was in our group, posed a threat for the best young rider, Columbian Uran, whose team Sky took up the chase. If you want to win a stage you also have to be lucky but today it wasn’t my case. When the group rode away I simply wasn’t there. I had come back from a breakaway and it wasn´t easy to cover all the attacks. Some riders stayed in that group others didn’t. There is nothing I can do, that is the way it goes in professional cycling. I gave it my best and tomorrow I will have another go,” Roman said after a fast and rainy stage.He had expected the battle for the front positions. “It came as no surprise that they´d go for it. Maybe it was because they knew Andy Schleck is not comfortable on downhills. But I don’t think that today´s stage will determine anything, the options remain open.”Stage 16 (Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux – Gap, 162.5 km): 1st Thor Hushovd (Nor/Garmin-Cervélo) 3:31:38, 2nd Boasson Hagen (Nor/Sky), 3rd. Hesjedal (Can/Garmin-Cervélo) +2, 4th Tony Martin (Ger/HTC-Highroad) +38, 5th Michail Ignatěv (Rus/Katusha) +52, 6th Alan Pérez (Spa/Euskaltel), … 114th Roman Kreuziger (Cze/Astana) +15:06.