Post-race interview - Stage 3 - Tour de France 2024

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00:00You had been waiting for this moment for a long time, you had already been on the Tour de France,
00:05but you finally have a stage victory in the world's greatest race.
00:10What does it mean for you?
00:12Yeah, first of all, I would say thanks God for everything,
00:17for giving me all the strength, support, and yeah.
00:30Yeah, you know, since I started cycling,
00:40Tour de France was, yeah, I never dreamed to be part of Tour de France,
00:46but now, yeah, I can't believe it.
00:49To win in Tour de France, second year, in the big bunch sprint,
00:53yeah, for me was unbelievable.
00:56I just want to say thank you to my family, my wife, all the Eritreans and Africans.
01:01We must be proud.
01:03Now we are really part of the big races, and then we success a lot of victories,
01:09so now it's our moment, it's our time.
01:12Yeah, I just want to say congrats also to my whole team,
01:16especially Jean-Francois, because we didn't have a victory in Tour de France yet,
01:22but now it's our moment, and yeah, I'm super happy.
01:26Because this is a victory for you, it's a victory for Africa.
01:29Absolutely, yeah, this means, yeah, it's for all Africans, congrats, I would say.
01:35Yeah, I'm just super happy today.
01:38Take us through that final kilometre, beating the best sprinters in the world.
01:42Yeah, normally today our plan is to give a lead out for Gerben-Thyssen,
01:49and also if the circumstances are really difficult, I need to try for myself,
01:55so in the end our team did a really good job,
01:59but in the last 1K I lost the wheel of Gerben, and then I just tried myself,
02:04and yeah, it was unbelievable to win in front of the fastest in the world.
02:10For me it was really, yeah, it was a really big motivation.
02:15You're making history, enjoy the podium.
02:17Thank you, thank you so much.

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