{"id":178400,"date":"2020-06-24T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T13:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=178400"},"modified":"2020-06-29T11:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T11:19:00","slug":"egan-bernal-winning-the-tour-de-france-is-like-a-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/06\/24\/egan-bernal-winning-the-tour-de-france-is-like-a-drug\/","title":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal: There Is Nothing Like Winning the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Colombian already revealed he wouldn\u2019t sacrifice himself at the Tour for Froome or Thomas. He wants the road to decide Ineos\u2019 leader. And the youngest Tour winner in the modern era proves he aims to be the one. His Strava shows he\u2019s been ramping up the kilometres in June. Just in the first week of this month, Bernal spent 34 hours on his bike and rode 1,161 kilometres in seven rides. Why? Winning the Tour is something very special.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing like winning the Tour de France and what comes next is to win another,\u201d Bernal told France TV Sport. \u201cIt\u2019s like a drug, because if you win it once you want to do it over and over again. Once you have tasted it, you want more and more, you never get enough.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_178383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-178383\" style=\"width: 1250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-178383\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/06\/profimedia-0459890617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1250\" height=\"831\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-178383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egan Bernal, Geraint Thomas and Dylan van Baarle in the last kilometers of the fourteenth stage of the 2019 Tour de France. \u00a9 Profimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen you win a Tour de France, you want to win it a second time, and then a third, and establish a new record. I will bring the show the public has been waiting for and I\u2019ll be absolutely prepared for the race. I\u2019ll give the best of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernal is expected to ride the Route d\u2019Occitanie on August 1, then the Tour de l\u2019Ain and the Crit\u00e9rium du Dauphin\u00e9. He should be very ready for the Tour\u2019s Grand D\u00e9part from Nice on August 29. However, Chris Froome says he\u2019s ready as well, despite his last year\u2019s horrible injury. There\u2019sno doubt about Thomas\u2019 form. Who shall prevail?<\/p>\n<p>Let us know your thoughts on social media!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colombian already revealed he wouldn\u2019t sacrifice himself at the Tour for Froome or Thomas. 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