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

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

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.