This allows us to forget the crisis in the team. People talk more now about what's happening in offices than on the road,

There is no worry about what I can do during the mountain stages,

I'd still like to win the world's, but more than anything, I dream about winning the Tour, ... I'd like to make a good (Tour) in 2006 and we're going to plan the season in a different way.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

We get worked up over trivia, while pushing the real problems facing us under the carpet. Firstly, most people forget that the stricture against depicting Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) in an illustration applies only to Muslims. Secondly, the offending (and offensive) cartoons first appeared in September without provoking a reaction except for some mild protests.

The closing of Good Hope's emergency room and its inpatient psychiatric unit presented us with a real crisis.