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...
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.
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.
easy fulfil goal great hopefully morale nice race stated win wins
his two wins in Benelux were nice but this is something else. It's great for his morale and for the team's morale. Before the race began, I stated our goal is to win two stages. It's not easy to win but hopefully we can fulfil the goal.
camp decide decisive training
We could decide during our (US) training camp in December, which will be decisive (for the Tour),
camp decide decisive training
We could decide during our (U.S.) training camp in December, which will be decisive (for the Tour),
camp decide decisive training
We could decide during our training camp in December, which will be decisive (for the Tour),
control legs tour won
The way he won this year... everything pretty much under control and he never showed any weakness. He has another Tour in his legs yet.
build future help riders
These are the young riders that we can help build the future of the team. There's not going to be another Lance, we know that much already.
code correct damage ethics followed handled issue leaked matter newspaper organs proper properly published purpose via
Another issue here is that the code of ethics, the proper protocols were not followed properly in this matter. The only purpose is to damage Lance's image. Normally, a matter like this is handled via the correct organs of the sport, not just published in a newspaper with leaked information. But we've been through all of this before, so many accusations. So it's not a surprise. We're used to it.
ahead timing work
There's still some work ahead of us but the timing is right, ... his sensations.
definitely hard sit stages tomorrow
We're definitely not going to sit back and watch. Tomorrow and the day after are two hard stages and I think we can still try to do something. We're going to be aggressive.
convinced crashed jersey kept rider yellow
We're convinced that he would have kept his leader's jersey had he not crashed. You don't take the yellow jersey away from a rider who crashed out.