Johan Bruyneel
Johan Bruyneel
Johan Bruyneelis a former road bicycle racer in professional cycling and a former directeur sportif for UCI ProTour team RadioShack–Nissan. Retiring from racing in 1998, he became director of U.S. Postal Service, a US-based UCI ProTour cycling team. Following the 2007 season, the team disbanded and Bruyneel became the director of the Astana team beginning in 2008, and achieved victories in each of cycling's Grand Tours with Contador with Astana. He participated in two Tour de France wins with Discovery...
became conscious france owes seven titles tour won
I'm conscious Lance won seven Tour de France titles and owes a lot to the race. But at the same time, the Tour de France became more important with an American who won seven Tours.
deal maximum past proved
He proved in the past that he can deal with that. He is at his maximum under pressure,
expect form george next top total tour
George is a total professional and I expect him to be in top form for his next objective, the Tour de France.
counting extra happened
I'm not counting out anything. With what's happened in France, he would have a little extra motivation.
deal mentally physically side woke
I think he's been very offended. If you know him, he doesn't need a lot to find some motivation. I think it woke up the competitive side of him. Physically and mentally he can deal with a lot.
calculated confidence easy form guys plan
It's not easy to plan but I think we calculated it well and the guys have confidence that their form is coming.
amazing basically change objectives plans race races season sign strong team tour
Without Lance our objectives will change, who will race in what races will change and the plans for the season will change. But we still have a very strong team without him. If you look at our 2005 season and take out what Lance accomplished, basically his Tour victory, this team had an amazing season. It was a season that any team would sign up for before it started.
riders signed
We haven't signed anybody. We're full. We have 27 riders and we're going to keep it that way.
classics spain tour
We were up there in the Classics and the Tour of Spain as well.
camp decide decisive training
We could decide during our training camp in December, which will be decisive (for the Tour),
camp decide decisive training
We could decide during our (U.S.) training camp in December, which will be decisive (for the Tour),
camp decide decisive training
We could decide during our (US) training camp in December, which will be decisive (for the Tour),
accept attacked beaten floyd solid strong time
We attacked all the time and I think we have to accept we were beaten by a very solid Landis. Floyd was just strong than we expected.
reason stage test time trial
This time trial was really the stage that mattered, the real test for us. And from what I saw, we have every reason to be satisfied.