在cyclingnews的報導中 Menchov似乎也不是很清楚發生了什麼 他自述是以保險的騎法來完成賽事 "I didn't take risks, because I felt very good, I had very good legs today," he said afterwards. "So I didn't take chances in the first corners. In the final, when it started raining, I rode without risk. I was perhaps a little afraid of crashing in the final, but I was going slower than we normally go in the dry."