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I just came down with itI dunno yesterday half way through the stage I could start to
feel it but I think it's more allergies than anything but I don't know it's not going well
so far. You know I came here in really good form and it's just gone, 1 crash and it started
everything you know, but we'll see. Today is a stage sprint and I hope to make a good
sprint same as in Naples with Cav. I hope for this, I am here for this and also I have
the legs for taking my first win this year and I want to take this today. In the final
there was lots of confusion in the peloton but Cav and Omega Pharma made a fantastic
and perfect sprint In the last 15 metres was perfect and Cav made I think the best sprint,
I think yesterday I think I can't win because Cav is very strong. Today is going to be a
hard day, I'm in 2 minds it's either going to be, it's either going to be full on but
I think it's one of those days where some guys could lose the race but I don't think
anyone's going to win it. Yeah I'm feeling good I think it's going to be real hard today,
I've been hearing horror stories about it all morning from the boys who were at Terrino
we'll see. Like most people are already lining up at the start line you know and there's
half an hour to go, people on rollers, yeah it's going to be a fast start. Yesterday I
gave full gas and today I think that I can't rest because it's a stronger and difficult
stage but I'll stay in the group easy. I don't think they plan the courses for the, if it
rains, they even look at that. It's probably awesome on TV but for us it's just *** you
know downhills, tight roads and it's so slippery, even the group here we had Dowsett crash right
beside me. Got to the finish it was cold it was long had a 250k transfer and you know
it's not good. Yeah it was pretty wet at the end it was alright I mean the first hour was
really difficult and then after that it sort of settled down a bit then carried on the
road until a point where I could, where there was a group forming behind that I could join
and once I got dropped I kinda cruised in, it got bloody slippery at the end. The good
thing about today is the big time cut and yeah I'm this crook that I think the main
thing is just to get through and with, I think I can lose like 20 minutes so. Today it's
like this is my day kinda thing, this is sort of the stage I've had my eye on so I just
feel like this is my day in the race where I can go for myself you know and the team
have given me absolute, they've been fully behind me tackling this day as hard as I can
and yeah just go as quick as I possibly can really. This is horrible this, it really is
horrible going off early and then having to wait. I mean obviously Wiggins is going to
be, it's a massive ask to sort of turn over the Olympic Time Trial champion but we'll
have to wait and see. I've done everything I can if it's not meant to be it's not meant
to be. It hasn't anywhere near sunk in yet, it's just the most unexpected un... crazy
thing yeah my first grand tour and a stage win and spending the day in the white jersey
it's just stuff dreams are made of really you know I was hoping for a top 10, to win
it is ... it's going to take a while to sink in. Tomorrow I haven't really looked at it
so yeah I think we'll have a, we'll try and get Ben out into the pink jersey so see what
we can do there and you know my day is done now so the rest of the tour I'll be looking
at getting through and helping the team as much as possible.