00:00It's the race, when I was 10 years old, I begged my parents to take me to see it, it's
00:14the race I saw my biggest idols win it, it's the race that made me want to become a cyclist
00:19and it's the biggest race in the sport.
00:24Everyone has a family on vacation to see the tour, so to be able to finally be a part of
00:31it and why not be in the winning team, it's going to be special.
00:39When I started cycling at 10 years old, 7-8 years old, it was a time Contador, Valverde
00:44and Purito, they were at the top, they were winning nearly every race.
00:49They became my idols, so for sure I think that also helped me get even more passionate
00:53and follow the sport with much more excitement.
01:04I prefer the Grand Tours due to the rider I am, but I think in this modern cycling,
01:10let's call it this way, it's very important to be able to do everything, as we see today
01:15with many riders.
01:21I'm with him in a lot of training camps in December and in many places and I think everybody
01:28sees a very nice guy, a very normal guy.
01:31When someone is this big in the sport and even outside the sport, for him to be normal
01:37as everybody else is something that is really, let's say, not normal.
01:47To be able to one day win the Tour de France is not only my dream in cycling, but it's
01:52like my biggest dream in life.
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