Anche Nicholas Roche racconta la sua:
We have to return to a team training camp in January 2021. "I needed volume, so I sometimes did longer workouts. When I returned an hour later, the staff was already waiting for me. These included sports director Rudi Kemna and head of science Narelle Neumann. They literally said, 'We don't care if you do more or less, but you do what you're told.' "Uh sorry?" I said. 'Am I getting a warning now because I trained an hour longer? What the fuck?' I realized it was going to be a tough year.”
"I understand that they want to have a master plan to be prepared, but they can't already plan the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France in May. And that's what they did. [...] The mental pressure and stress are great when you have to do something you don't believe in. When you create an environment where everything is so strict and you leave no room for plan B and C, it is difficult to create motivation and a good atmosphere."
"I don't think this management is suitable for cycling. In cycling, we have to deal with a lot of variables. It's not a predictable sport."