But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.