Michal Kwiatkowski says he still has a lot to learn in cycling after doing too much racing in the early part of the season has left him overcooked in the Tour de France for the second year in a row.

“I’m here for a stage win,” he told VeloNews. “I’ll come back here one year and try for the overall.”

He doesn’t blame Etixx-QuickStep for his inability to challenge in stages, as he says he and the team decided his schedule together.

“It was not the team’s decision, it was ours,” he said. “You’d think I’d learn my lesson from 2014, but I didn’t.”

Everyone in cycling is willing for the Pole to win a stage in the Rainbow Jersey to go with his bug win at Amstel Gold and his great rides in Paris-Nice and Basque Country.

“I won’t be disappointed if he comes away without a stage win, but I hope for him that he wins a stage,” Etixx-QuickStep manager Patrick Lefevere said.

“When a world champion wins a stage of the Tour de France, it’s always beautiful. It means we saw him good at the start of the season, in the Amstel Gold Race, and with a stage here, that means that he’s been a really nice world champion.”