The 20-year-old, riding his first Grand Tour, said the peloton "didn't ride hard enough" on the earlier climbs, leaving a group of roughly 100 riders together — something he found "quite annoying." On the final climb he kept his own rhythm, felt good enough to gamble for the win inside the last 3km, and only faded in the closing kilometer. That's not a rookie excusing a result; it's a debutant naming the tactics that cost him a shot at the win.