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It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.
It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.
It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.
My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?
My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.
Not having my father around has made me a better person.
On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.
One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.
Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.
Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.
People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.
People think sport is life and death - it's not.
Sir Wiggo sounds nice.
That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.
That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.
The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.
The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.
The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.
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