He views cycling as a team sport and relies on the emotional and physical support of his teammates to cope with difficult race outcomes.

“it's not individual sport, it's the team sport and they the guys sacrifice everything to be there in the tour to help one guy to win the tour. And uh and that in this day we could really see uh how the guys reacted to me when I when I dropped and um they helped me, they support me emotionally, physi”