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ok easy one
"I still feel I was robbed of part of my career. I was signed up to ride in the prologue of the Tour back in 1995, but it was made very obvious to me I would have to take drugs. I said no, no way, and I was sacked by my team. So there I was, 11 years later, sitting there waiting for the Tour cyclists to come by, and something welled up in me. I feel I was robbed by a lot of these bastards taking drugs. I also hate the way that people think anyone who has ever achieved anything on a bike must have been taking drugs. I was surprised how resentful I felt when I was in Paris. It had obviously been simmering away in there for years. That's something new I'll have to talk to my therapist about."
"I still feel I was robbed of part of my career. I was signed up to ride in the prologue of the Tour back in 1995, but it was made very obvious to me I would have to take drugs. I said no, no way, and I was sacked by my team. So there I was, 11 years later, sitting there waiting for the Tour cyclists to come by, and something welled up in me. I feel I was robbed by a lot of these bastards taking drugs. I also hate the way that people think anyone who has ever achieved anything on a bike must have been taking drugs. I was surprised how resentful I felt when I was in Paris. It had obviously been simmering away in there for years. That's something new I'll have to talk to my therapist about."
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"Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have."
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"I dont want to go to the Tour of Spain, I've come from the Tour of Germany and based on the few stages I've done I can tell you nothing has changed: the rhythm is still high and it's not cleaner that it was before. When you know how things are done in Spain, you don't feel very motivated to go there. I certainly don't want to have to go and ride like a motorbike.
We talk between ourselves in the peloton and there are certain races where we know we have no chance of doing something. Thats why I dont want to go to the Vuelta but I will have to see what my team says.
And when you look at a cycling nation like Belgium, which scarcely produces four or five good riders a year, and that there are 20 Americans, most of whom go like jets, then they must take us for idiots"
From 2006
We talk between ourselves in the peloton and there are certain races where we know we have no chance of doing something. Thats why I dont want to go to the Vuelta but I will have to see what my team says.
And when you look at a cycling nation like Belgium, which scarcely produces four or five good riders a year, and that there are 20 Americans, most of whom go like jets, then they must take us for idiots"
From 2006
"If falling and having stitches is the way you need to go about winning a time trial, give me a knife now"
"When we watch the race highlights, we sit there laughing. Seeing them attack like that, when you know about cycling, you know all too well that it's not possible".
One team, 2 different riders in 2007
"When we watch the race highlights, we sit there laughing. Seeing them attack like that, when you know about cycling, you know all too well that it's not possible".
One team, 2 different riders in 2007
"You can win races without doping-even big races. Winning those big races is something that comes with time. We know who the cheats are. We know who the doctors who dope riders are. They must go. In the peloton, there are still riders who boast that they are looked after by those doctors, we have to get rid of them."
Team boss of all the previous riders
Team boss of all the previous riders
"Its not normal that the French cannot compete. There are good riders in France, even some good climbers. The other riders say we are talentless or lazy, but when you take EPO, when you take growth hormone, when you take blood transfusions, you don't feel fatigue
I've never take doping products, I arrived in 1997 and in most teams, the system was to leave the young riders alone for the first two years then, if you were going to do a amajor Tour, someone showed you how things worked. The Festina scandal happened in the middle of my second year. I was lucky"
Yet another guy from the same team, maybe guess the team.
I've never take doping products, I arrived in 1997 and in most teams, the system was to leave the young riders alone for the first two years then, if you were going to do a amajor Tour, someone showed you how things worked. The Festina scandal happened in the middle of my second year. I was lucky"
Yet another guy from the same team, maybe guess the team.
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