The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.
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I do want to race motorbikes when I retire.
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I have a fondness for junk food - it still calls me, sometimes.
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Every rider trains their muscles but few train their brain.
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The thing with depression is you don't realise you have it and even when you do you don't want to realise you have it.
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I realised my whole focus each year is about the Tour de France.
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You can believe or you can doubt yourself. It's the difference between a gap being one metre late that you're gonna launch, then it's three seconds and you're sat on the wheel and you're about to lose.
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Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I'd be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.
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During the Tour you get tired, you get exhausted, you're in pain and you can get sick for a few days but still have to ride through it.