>Of course, winning all three Grand Tours is something special. I started talking to the team about it soon after the Vuelta. They quickly realized that I really wanted this. So they started looking at my data from the past few years to see if participating in the Giro would also have a positive influence on my performance in the Tour. After all, the Tour always remains my main goal. The team saw that my numbers were not worse in the two years I rode the Vuelta after the Tour. In fact, I would say that in terms of power output, I was even slightly better in the Vuelta.”

how does this even make sense, both vueltas he's ridden he didn't even look close to as dominant as he was in the tours he won and the tours he lost