"You never really get used to winning" - Olav Kooij more than exceeds his expectations for this season

Olav Kooij took a fourth successive stage win in Tour of Britain, this time in Newark-on-Trent. The 21-year-old's team employed copy-and-paste tactics in Nottinghamshire, leading the charge in the final kilometres, before Wout van Aert dropped him off with 200m to go. 

"You never really get used to winning," Kooij said afterwards. "It's always nice and it's also always difficult in those sprints."

"Sometimes you need to be a little bit patient," he said. "We got it back into the last one and a half kilometres, which was perfect. Wout knew I was there, and then he knew what he had to do."

"We will keep going day by day, but first we will enjoy this one," said Kooij. "The goal for me was just to win throughout the whole season. I didn’t have one specific goal or race in mind. Being able to be consistent this year has been really good for the confidence."