“The situation has changed in the last week but in the first period it was not very difficult to chosse a leader of our team. Menchov was giving a very strong impression and then, after yesterday’s stage, it was so difficult to establish that we had to attack because Rasmussen was very impressive in the last five kilometers of the stage to L’Alpe d’Huez. _ “He had the freedom today to do his stage. The only assignment for Denis was to stay with Landis and… well, he didn’t stay with him all the way, luckily enough. _ “Denis was complaining that he had problems with his throat yesterday. He felt good until a certain moment and he was eager to attack and open up the race but he paid for that afterwards. Ah, that’s racing… _ “On the other hand we have a very nice victory with Rasmussen. He has the stage win and the mountains jersey so the Tour de France has been extremely good for us.”
Interview
July 19
th
2006
- 18:23
Theo De Rooij, Rabobank (Mananager) - "The Tour de France has been extremely good for us..."
