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> “Over the years we have worked hard together to build that up bit by bit through endurance training. Year after year we kept an eye on it, and it kept increasing. His pace that he can maintain for half an hour and longer had to be better. And that worked out. What he used to do was follow, follow, follow. And if he was still there in the last five hundred meters he would win. But racing is different. With the same profile as five years ago, he would no longer be in the top 5 in a Grand Tour.”