Matteo Jorgenson: "Seven times better than winning on your own"

June 9 ^th 2026 - 17:52

"Winning as a team is seven times better than winning on your own, because we get the moments right afterwards together which in cycling you don’t often get. It’s a really cool discipline and a really nice day.

Actually, it didn’t really go as planned at all. First we lost Wout [van Aert] pretty early, he was not feeling super. Then Ben [Tulett] flatted and almost crashed on the main descent of the day. That was a hairy moment. But I think we adapted well to the situation and we could rearrange things, readjust, and I think the last 10 kilometres downhill we couldn’t have gone any faster. Bruno [Armirail], Edo [Affini], Per [Hagenes] were all incredibly strong. I was given a free ride to the last climb.

It feels good to win, and it is really nice after the spring I’ve had to come back and be on top again. It’s a pleasure to be part of a team like this where we have people that look after the details and make such a clear plan for us. I’m super happy to be part of this team and take this win together."