Lotte Kopecky: "I had some difficulties"
“First of all, I want to bring my condolences to the family of Muriel [Furrer],” says our winner in an interview with Eurosport. “The minute of silence at the start, seeing the Swiss riders crying is just something you don’t want to see and I think it’s a very hard moment for them as well.”
On it being a good win mentally as well as physically: “Yeah for sure, certainly my head,” she says. “It was a really annoying day because it was raining, it was cold but on the climbs it was warm, then on the downhills you got so cold. Three laps from the end I was actually freezing but I tried to stay as [mentally] cool as possible. I had some difficulties when Demi went on the final climb but I just tried to stay at my own pace and come back.
“At the end it was just a lot of mind games so I was just trying to stay as cool as possible and use my energy at the right moments.”
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Kopecky’s winning time: 4hr 05min 26sec.
