> “In reality, the hardest part is holding on when his domestiques are riding full throttle uphill. A domestique like that gives everything he has; his race will be over in ten minutes anyway. When I’m really pushing to the limit on the wheel, I count how many UAE riders are left to pull at the front. I can’t wait for the last one to move aside and let Pogacar go. As soon as he’s gone, alone or with Vingegaard, a second race begins for me and a few others. You don’t see that race on television.”
> “It’s purely about limiting the damage,” says Jegat. “We don’t talk to each other, everyone rides at 100% of their ability, we hardly attack each other, and we ride for our own position. The best-placed rider does most of the work. Last year on Mont Ventoux, I ended up with Felix Gall, who was in 7th place at the time. I was in 11th, and he didn’t ask me to take the lead. It was up to him to do the work, not me.”