Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors) - stage 2 winner
"I am so happy that I got this victory today. It was an incredible start in Germany with so many people. For me, it would be wrong to say that I had no expectation or no pressure. It all comes out now, and I really wanted to have this win. It was a big goal to start in Germany and win at the end of this stage.
"If we are honest and look to the plan, it didn’t work at all. The good thing was I came pretty late and I could jump from the wheels. Matteo [Trentin] from us was on the left, and Saba [Fabio Sabatini] brought me to 500 metres and then I just thought, ‘OK, I need to take my own way.’ I was just jumping from wheel to wheel through small gaps, and in the end I could go straight to the front. I’m super relieved."
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Chris Froome (Team Sky)
"No injuries, thankfully. I’ve just lost a little bit of skin on my backside. That’s the nature of the race. We knew that there were slippery conditions, and every time you put your race numbers on you take risks and something could happen. Today there was just a touch of wheels or someone slipped a few wheels ahead of me, and at those speeds you just can’t avoid it. A few of us went down, but thankfully everyone is OK and we got to the finish without losing any time to our rivals. That’s the main thing."
Michal Kwiatkowski (Team Sky)
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