“I started off the Tour in great shape and I’ve never had the opportunity to lead a team. I don’t know what to expect but I know that anything is possible, there’s no reason to set limits. I don’t know how I’ll respond but I’ll just hope for the best. …
“I was very disappointed to lose yesterday by such a small margin. I couldn’t sleep last night because I was thinking of everything that I could have done to improve on my time.
“To get the yellow jersey today today is a great honour and I’m really pleased with that it all came together.
“With the breakaway gone, we didn’t think about chasing time bonuses. I knew that, coming into the finish, the sprinters teams would be in control and saving themselves for the final sprint so I thought, ‘Why not try?’ And it was a good decision (to chase the time bonuses at the intermediate sprint with nine kilometers to go).
“I knew I was less than a second behind in the general classification and to get two seconds was all I needed.”
George Hincapie, the American cyclist who worked for years in the shadow of Lance Armstrong.
An interview with the 33-year-old Greenville, South Carolina, resident was posted on the Tour de France website. He talked about finishing the prologue a split second behind Thor Hushovd to finish in 2nd place on Saturday, but taking a 2-second time bonus at an intermediate sprint on Sunday to gain the yellow jersey.
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