Bert
10/15/2026 (Thu) 07:59
No.127635
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10/15/2026 (Thu) 07:59
No.127635
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>"I don’t think this management style is suited to cycling. In cycling, you have to deal with a great many variables. It’s not a predictable sport. The human body isn’t a perfect machine. You have to contend with weather conditions, as well as the tactics of 24 other teams. I understand the desire for a master plan to ensure preparation, but you can’t plan the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France back in May. And yet, that’s exactly what they did." Roche recounts how, during the 2020 Tour de France stage to Saint-Étienne, the riders adjusted their race strategy on the fly. In the end, Sunweb won the stage, with Søren Kragh-Andersen taking the victory. Roche: "An hour later, I was sitting next to the sports director when a call came through from the boss—Iwan Spekenbrink. He wanted to know why we hadn’t been part of the breakaway. We had just won the stage! That was the moment I realized: this whole 'belief in the process' and 'trust in the protocol'—it’s just not for me."