Chris Froome has said that he is delighted to be back in the yellow jersey
Speaking at the press conference after he rode away to take the victory on stage eight, Froome said: "I'm not sure I'd call that a marginal gain. Call it what you want. I felt like a kid again out there, riding my bike again as fast as I could.
"I've done quite a lot of training camps with Kwiatkowski and when you spend time together, it's something you end up doing. You race each other on descents and I guess that it paid off today a little," he explained.
"It was such a hard stage, with barely time for a natural break. It really was one of the hardest stages I’ve done in along time. My teammates just buried themselves for me today, from start to finish, so I thought I needed to make the most of this."
"I gave it a go on the climb and that didn’t really work. I could see the guys on my wheel pretty quickly, so I told myself to give it one more go over the top of the climb to see if I could pull away over the top of the descent. I’m really glad I took that risk. It was a spur of the moment reaction and thought that everyone would be on the limit and so I gave it a little squeeze to see what happened. I didn't take a massive gap but I'm in yellow this evening and it's a big surprise, but it's an amazing feeling to be back in yellow again.”