The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

We're aren't expecting a tremendous amount of precipitation from this.

It was an overload of the communication system. It looks like it was precipitated by the large amount of communications that accompany such incidents.