David Millar – “A magic moment...”

“The tension in the team bus was just unbelievable. Everyone was just sitting in there with their hearts racing as though we were still in the team time trial. And  because we’re all so close and many of us have been through so much together in the last couple of years, it was really special. We all knew how much it meant to us and to pull it off was just a magic moment.
“Someone said I should wait a few more years to write my book but I’m very lucky in that everything is going so wonderfully at the moment that I’m loving it at the moment.
“I don’t think of the yellow jersey because we’ve got Thor in that and we’ll be doing everything for him. And it’ll be everything for Tyler tomorrow. Happy days! We’ve got plenty of cards we can play.
“Jonathan was just a walking ball of nerves. He didn’t hide the fact that he was putting everything in to this. It was a big call and it was a brave move but we pulled it off. I think that’s why he was so nervous. Fortunately we know Jonathan so well that we keep him on the fringe but I think he came into our rooms about 10 times each this morning just trying to give us new ideas. We were like, ‘Jonathan, just calm down, we know what we’re doing…’
“And he was like, ‘Oh, yeah… yeah… yeah.’
“It was nice because he took all our nerves on for himself.
“The sequence was Julian, Navardauskas – our wünderkind – then me. Our shortcoming in the past has been to do really average starts but this time we really nailed it. I went really deep at the beginning to just get us up to speed and hold it there for as long as I could so that everyone could absorb it. And I was just one the ropes for the rest of the ride after that and it was horrible but it worked well.”