Warren Barguil has said today that he is pleased with his form, which has led him to 9th overall, 42 seconds down on Joaquim Rodriguez going into the final day.

Barguil made a stunning attack on the way to the top of Vallter 2000, the stage that was not broadcasted due to poor weather. He discussed his attack with Cyclingnews:

"I had had a puncture on the previous climb and a teammate gave me a wheel, but that wheel change came just at a point when the peloton was accelerating and I had to spend a fair bit of energy trying to get back into the race."

"Then on the last mountain, people starting looking at each other and I took advantage of that to move away, maybe 10 kilometres from the summit."

Barguil had watched the climb on TV after last year’s race, but admitted he had few reference points due to the bad weather.

"David Lopez (Sky) brought the peloton back up to me, but again with three kilometres to go, I saw that he needed to catch his breath because he'd done so much work before and at that point I attacked, and gave it everything I could.

"Then with about one and a half kilometres to go, I got caught by Chris Froome (Sky) and I just gave it everything to try and get to the line. I was pretty satisfied but I think without that puncture and the energy I used up there I could maybe have done a bit better."

Even though he is without a stage win so far, he has the ability to cement his top 10 place and he can then head off happy to the Tour of the Basque Country and then Fleche Wallonne and Liege Bastogne Liege to finish the first half of his season.