“It was a very chaotic sprint, like all the sprints in the Tour de France,” Groenewegen said. “Afterwards, you see that the wheel of Kittel was the best wheel to be on, but I would still have to come over him. Démare went on the right and I chose to follow him. That did not work out in the end because of the chaos." 

“Today I got pushed out of the wheel ten times and pushed riders out of wheels ten times, that is how chaotic it was. You try to be in the best position possible, but that is where everybody wants to be. That is not easy, but today it went quite well.” 

“The results must improve. We keep on trying and who knows where it leads us.” 

“We wanted to be in the front early,” Timo Roosen explained. “We were constantly in the right position and kept calm. On the narrow roads, it is not easy to pass. We knew that in the end the roads would widen."

“I do not know exactly what went wrong, but I ended up behind Dylan. Robert Wagner could get back in front of Dylan and he guided Dylan into a good position.”