Demi Vollering (Team SD Worx - Protime) : "I really didn’t see this coming. I really had no idea that I could to this today, so I’m really surprised actually. These first days were just days that I needed to survive and I want to really just enjoy these first stages. I already had in the head tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) stage because we really love it. I really like the Liege-Bastogne–Liege race. So today in the road stage I was already thinking about tomorrow. After that stage until the TT I slept two times because I was so relaxed. I just didn’t see this coming. Last year Tourmalet was ‘the’ stage that I needed to do it and here I had no expectation at all. I thought it was a stage for the sprinters and the powerful time triallists, but before the start I just flew into it. I stayed so calm and I don’t know, it was a strange day for me! It’s up to the other teams to try and take the Yellow Jersey from our team now and it’s nice that I have it. We will try our very best to defend it to the very end. It was intense [on the podium]. I didn't want to cry but I couldn't keep tears inside. There’s so much emotion. I'm also super proud. I saw so many family getting crazy so it makes me emotional. I just did the best I could do today, apparently it was very good so we really need to see the coming days, I hope the shape stays like this. We'll see what happens next. It's really special to wear it so early. It's such an iconic jersey, so I'm really proud to have it already. It's crazy because sometimes you work so hard for things and you really think you can do it, for example the Olympics it was a bit disappointing may be. So that makes it really special today. I always say it all starts with dreaming but today it was not even there in dreaming. Now it's just happened."
