5 July 2008
Le Tour
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Cadel Evans knows better than most just how heartbreaking the Tour De France can be, the cycling classic that is the toughest endurance test in world sport.
Last year he rode for three weeks, through 21 stages and almost 3,500 kilometres—and lost by less than 30 seconds.
This year he's the favourite to win.
If the race has a modern-day legend, then it's Lance Armstrong, the American cancer survivor who, starting in 1999, would win the race an unprecedented seven times in a row.
Johan Bruyneel was there right through that incredible run, he was the director of Armstrong's team from 1999 right through to his final victory in 2005.
It was Bruyneel who assembled the riders, the bikes, and put together the strategy that would turn Armstrong from something of a rough diamond into perhaps the greatest cyclist of all time.
Guests
Johan Bruyneel
Director, Team Astana and 8 times tour winning director.
Publications
Title: We Might as Well Win
Author: Johan Bruyneel and Bill Strickland
Publisher: Scribe
Presenter
Geraldine Doogue
Story Researcher and Producer
Scott Wales
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