I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.