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...
decided minutes phone rest speak talk
But don't make me say that Lance has already decided what he will do with the rest of his career. That said, we speak for 15 minutes on the phone every day, and for 13 of those we talk about cycling.
helped ignored race seven surprised tour won
I'm a little surprised that Lance was ignored like this. He won this race seven times in a row, no one has done this before. The Tour helped him become what he is now.
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.
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.
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,
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.
best team together turned
We put this team together specifically for this course, and it turned out to be the best team I have ever seen.
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.
crash fell front nervous riders takes week
It's nothing serious. He actually fell on the tarmac. There is not much you can do when a crash takes place just in front of you. In the first week of the Tour, riders are very nervous and you must be especially careful.
calculated confidence easy form guys plan
It's not easy to plan but I think we calculated it well and the guys have confidence that their form is coming.
good
It's unbelievable what Lance did today. It's undoubtedly a good operation.
bit driven motivation next passed thank thinking tour unpleasant walked win
I walked away a bit angry, but at the same time, and I have to thank the Tour for this; we're more driven than ever before. One of the things Lance passed on to me was to find motivation out of unpleasant things. I walked away thinking about how we are going to try to win the Tour next year.
cannot certain france given judge people race recognize sad today tour
Everyone has to judge for themselves, ... Lance realizes where he is now is because of the Tour de France and what the race has given him. I think he's also given a lot back and that the Tour wouldn't be where it is today without a big U.S. champion. It's sad that certain people cannot recognize that.
good motivation
It's good for the motivation of the team. It was good to have him around.