Van Baarle- I Will Remember This Day For The Whole Of My Life

Last updated : 14 September 2014 By Covsupport News Service

Garmin Sharp's Dylan Van Baarle has said that he will remember the day he won the Tour Of Britain for the rest of his life.

Van Baarle did enough on the time trial and then on the final stage 8B around London to win the race and he said: "I didn't really win the race today, - won it in Brighton yesterday.

"It was tough to defend my jersey in a time trial against Kwiatkowski but I did it and I'm very happy, I will remember this day for my whole life.

"I like these kind of stage races very much - not too long - but at the start of the week when I saw the list of riders, guys like Wiggins and Kwiatkowski I knew it was going to be very hard. I was hoping for perhaps top ten.

"It's been a very hard race, the roads are heavy, lots of little steep climbs but also the six man teams is a factor. It makes it really exciting as we saw in the stage of Alex Dowsett on Friday when the peloton were pulling and pulling and could not catch the break. That ride inspired me a little bit for our break on Saturday.

"In the future I would like to develop into a Classics rider - Roubaix and Flanders - and also races like this. I am probably too heavy to be a Grand Tour rider!"

Marcel Kittel beat Mark Cavendish to the win in the final stage and he said to his team's press office: "The lead-out was great today and that made the win possible.

"To start and finish the race with a win is really nice, especially here in London again. It has been a good week, hard racing but as a team we have raced well and it should set us up well for the races still to come at the end of the season.

"It worked out really well for us at the end today. We waited late to move up to the front on the right as planned and then Tom took me round the top corner before dropping me off in a perfect position. It was a hard sprint but I had enough to come back at the end and hold on. It's a nice was to end the week here."