This Wednesday, Patrick Konrad finished in the same time as many leaders and said that he is ready to fight during the fourth stage with a finish at the top of the Green Mountain climb. The Bora Argon 18 rider wants to cross the finish line with the best riders, but his main goal is to keep the white jersey.

“I’m really happy to stay in the white jersey to be also up front in the GC,” Konrad told Cyclingnews before the podium ceremony, after the third stage. “Today we tried to make a good result in the sprint with Sam but it wasn’t sometimes it doesn’t work out how you want. Everybody wanted to win, and now we are looking forward to tomorrow. My team always supports me really well so we will see what happens tomorrow.”

He has a five-second lead over the Slovakian Peter Sagan (Tinkoff Saxo), his main rival for the white jersey. ”I will fight for it but of course tomorrow is a really hard day but we will see. I feel not so bad and my team has been supporting me really well so we will see what happens at the end of the day,” said Konrad. “The climb tomorrow is really different the climb is really long and also steeper. We will see if I can stay with the best and if I can stay in the top 10 in the GC then it would be great.”