Ben O’Connor: “There’s no better way to start the season than with a win”
“I’m very happy, there’s no better way to start the season than with a win. It’s nice to see that the winter work is paid off. I always wanted to be aggressive today on the climb in the middle of the race. I wanted to take an opportunity. It was super windy as well afterwards. So it made for a really hard day and I was actually really glad that we had Paul [Lapeira] and Nico [Prodhomme] with me in the breakaway up front of the race. I think we actually did a decent job to keep away from the peloton. I took a moment with Tim Wellens to jump away because we started to lose some cooperation. So yeah, I guess in the end the story shows I got away on the final climb and on the race and couldn’t be happier. Now I just want to hope to continue this kind of form and race to my heart, race to my head as well and do my best.”
