Mathias Frank came into this year's Tour de France with a bit of a point to prove. He had left the safety of BMC at the end of 2013 in order to lead IAM Cycling but a crash in the first week of last year’s Tour de France robbed him of the chance to test himself over three weeks.
This year he returned to the Tour and made good on his decision to change teams with eighth overall in Paris. Vindication, perhaps, but the 28-year-old, who sat down with Cyclingnews at the Arctic Race of Norway, is far from finished.
Cyclingnews: How's your shape since the Tour de France?
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Mathias Fränk: I was tired after the race but did San Sebastian a week later. I could feel then that I wasn’t fully recovered and I just felt tired. Then I had a week off, and took a break with my family. I’m recovered now.
CN: That Tour de France result, 8th overall. How important for you was it?
MF: It was the most important race in my career. It showed that I was capable of getting a top ten in the biggest race in the world. It was actually a bit of a new experience for me because this was my eight season as a pro but I’d never tried for a GC in a three-week race. It’s also three years since I last finished a Grand Tour so going into the race, when we spoke in Utrecht, I didn’t really know what it was going to be like. It was a huge satisfaction with how it turned out.
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