In the Tour, it's important to use every opportunity to distance or eliminate adversaries and if there's a chance, I won't hesitate to attack. |
It is a good Tour to start with as it is not too demanding. |
It was a bad day and I knew it from the first climb in Aspin, ... I'm going to keep fighting because the Tour is not over. |
It's a good race to start with as it's not too demanding. The terrain isn't too difficult, very good to find the rhythm again. |
It's a lot more open without Armstrong. I really have to be careful that I have everything in hand. Basso is always getting better, Heras has to bring his Vuelta performance to the Tour, and Vino has already announced his intentions. |
It's not really a relief that he quit, |
Of course I would have liked to beat him but unfortunately I couldn't. It's not really relief because the Tour's going to change. There won't be a team like his who will control the race. |
The distribution of power! Jan has the absolute power in the team - like Lance Armstrong...in the years of his Tour victories. |
The knee held up well and I felt like I made progress. Just finishing the course was a small victory for me. |
There's no point complaining. I want to put this knee trouble behind me and get on with a structured build-up to the Tour (de France). |
To me there's no doubt I will be fighting for victory. |
Today, I had trouble because it was slippery and dangerous, |
What he did was sensational. |
You start to feel that the power missing. The season has been long, and the legs start to get heavy. |