When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.
When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.
I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.
The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see.
If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.
I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it.
The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman against woman; it's not flesh against flesh. It's flesh against machine.