Quinn Simmons Fumes After Stage 15 Finish In Tour de France 2025

After Tour de France 2025 Stage 15 in Carcassonne, Quinn Simmons didn’t hold back. The American rider expressed clear frustration about being tasked to work for teammate Jonathan Milan instead of getting a full shot at his own chances.

Simmons said “nothing else matters” except winning and said there’s a difference of opinion in team tactics at Lidl-Trek after falling short yet again.

In this post-stage interview, Simmons opens up about what went wrong, what he really wanted and whether things might change in the final week of the Tour. #TDF

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Quinn, uh you look to be the strongest out there, but we know the strongest doesn’t always win. Uh if anything, what went wrong for you out there? Um I mean, it’s the third time this week that I think the uh the moto drivers have played a little part in the the victory here. It’s uh yeah, it’s unfortunate, but we know we know this is the game of the tour. And then I Yeah, luckily if you’re the one that that gets away, you get this advantage and there’s no chance for the group behind and rolling all the way back. You were on double duty today. You were there chasing to bring back that pull group didn’t happen before the intermediate sprint and then I guess you were given uh free reign. You were let out of the cage, the tiger out of the cage to go on the attack. Yeah, like I told you this morning, we uh had a few differences of opinion on what was going to happen in the stage. And yeah, unfortunately I had to spend a bit of energy controlling in the start for something that probably was never going to happen. But hey, you have to do what the radio tells you. Store then Wellens, those guys were giving you a hard time. Uh how were you picking the right moment to attack? Cuz we saw you go on the attack at 15 at 5K to go. Yeah, I think the whole day it was it was a bit strange everyone’s tactics. We had such strong groups, but we were never really working well together. And then yeah, I mean when a guy like Wellins goes, we all need to commit. Unfortunately, we had Campen Arts just sitting there muttering something about uh Van Hart the whole time and no one else really committed when there’s one guy who’s playing a bit of games. So yeah, that’s how it is. Quinn, we’ve gone through two tough weeks. How are you? I mean, you’re going to be on the attack again after the rest day on the Von two now. I mean, the initially, yeah, when we had Skellyy here, I would uh go with him and Devon for the mounds points, but um yeah, now it’s a bit more of a rest day for me. And yeah, there’s still two maybe three opportunities in the third week, so hopefully the legs stay okay. Yeah, some great A Cat 5 tactics today, I think. But, um yeah, I mean, it’s how it is. Wellins did a super strong ride and you know in the end I think there was only one situation for today and that it was be super hard and a really strong rider get away in the final and you know that’s what happened. There there was a moment uh where it seemed like you went back and uh talked to Wellins um and then uh that was shortly after it seemed like that’s when he went. Was that Did we read that right? Yeah. Um, yeah, it’s uh a bit strange the tactic to not pull and then to attack, but hey, it worked for him today. So, super strong ride from him and you know, he took the took the lucky moment and made it count. And it turned out Store ended up with the uh most aggressive uh thoughts on that. I mean, you’ve been out there it seems every day, but not a jersey yet. I mean, I’m not here for the most aggressive of the day. I’m here to win a stage. There’s only one most aggressive that counts and that’s the one in Paris. But we don’t think about that. We’re here for the stage.