You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.

I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'

On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.

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