The Slovakian has been burned one too many times in this situation and chose not to do the grunt work on this occasion. “Zdenek just attacked and surprised everybody. I was just looking to see what was happening, because it was Alpecin with Degenkolb and Kristoff [was there] and I said that these teams must work if they want to win the stage,” Sagan said at the finish.
“If I go to try and catch Zdenek then someone would catch me in the finish, so I said, 'No I don’t go.' Then it was too late. Rodríguez opened the sprint for Kristoff but after we did a sprint but it was too late.”
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Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.
