The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

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

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.