You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.
When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.
I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
The first win came very quick, and I didn't know what it meant to win a major championship. I was a teenager, I was very young. I didn't know what I was doing. I just needed some time to get settled in on the tour.
When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.
When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.
You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.
I'm going to go out on tour when I feel like going on tour.
I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.