Trek-Segafredo young talent Quinn Simmons is only four days into his Tour de France debut, but the American already has plans and goals for the rest of the race with hills and cobbles in mind.

So far, the 21-year-old has filled in for sprinter Mads Pedersen on two flat stages in Denmark. [Simmons and Trek-Segafredo will turn their attention to the cobbles of Roubaix for stage 5, following Tuesday's stage 4 finale in Calais.

"Of course, I was hoping for a little more that Mads would wear the jersey at home," Simmons said in Dunkerque. But today we have another chance for a stage win."

"Tomorrow is all about tomorrow.

Stage 5 will be his first experience of the cobblestones of Roubaix as a professional. Simmons raced Paris-Roubaix as a junior, but crashed in a rain race in 2020 and did not participate this year.

He said the first week of the race will be all about working for the team, and later in the race he will be able to ride for his own ambitions.

"My first goal is to be the best rider in the first week for the team," he said. 'But sometimes in the intermediate mountain races you have to take a break. That's my personal ambition."

Simmons, who hails from the same Colorada town of Durango as Jumbo Visma climber Sepp Kuss, was touted as a ruler and for the Northern Classics when he turned pro two years ago with Trek Segafredo out of junior, but since then he has added more strings has been.

This season was the best climbing of his three-year career, with mountain prizes in both the Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour de Suisse. In the former Tour de Suisse, he left Julian Alaphilippe out of the breakaway group, and in the latter Tour de Suisse, he narrowly missed a summit finish victory from the breakaway group.

"I really enjoyed it," he said of the Tour de Suisse. My body has changed a little bit in the last three years," he said of the Tour de Suisse. My body has changed a little bit over the last three years. I don't really know what I'm good at yet, but I'm trying to get a little bit better at different things."

"I can lead out and sprint now, and hopefully I can do a good job tomorrow. On the smaller climbs I might have a chance."