Tense stage and slight loss of time

“The finale was really fast. We knew that there could be some split-ups. A small gap opened up at the end and I wasn’t able to close it. But the bottom-line is that Roche and Majka didn’t lose almost any time. My goal was to come through the first hard days, which I managed to do. We will see how it goes in the following days,” said Roman after the stage that was marred by many crashes. The stage was quite windy and very tense. We were riding on the front and luckily, we avoided almost every crash. Only once Majka got stuck at the back and the only one who went down today was Oliver Zaugg but he escaped unscathed,” Roman said.