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...
challenge few head leader races ready step strong team time
I feel like with have a really strong team but without Lance, it's going to take some time and some races to get used to him not being here. It will be big challenge for me. I think in a few years we will have another strong leader at the head of this team and I think we have a few that are here now and are ready to step up into that role.
build future help riders
These are the young riders that we can help build the future of the team. There's not going to be another Lance, we know that much already.
damage mental physical worse
The mental damage is going to be worse than the physical damage.
beginning came category climbs finish four good hard knew last max slightly stage third uphill
It was a very hard stage today. There were four third category climbs in the beginning part but in the last part, it all came back together. We knew it was a good finish for Max as it was slightly uphill at the finish.
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.
convinced crashed jersey kept rider yellow
We're convinced that he would have kept his leader's jersey had he not crashed. You don't take the yellow jersey away from a rider who crashed out.
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.
bit coming maybe mountains planned reach route shape start top tour trying
This year, things were planned a little different. The Tour route is different, with the mountains coming so late, so we are trying to have everyone reach top shape right at the start of the Tour, maybe even a bit later,