The Struggle to Win the Tour De France

"There's always a sense of it needs to be better there's always this drive to improve and this relentless sort of you can never be complacent" "You were trying to get yourself to a place that even you don't always you know believe is going to be possible. You are pushing yourself all the time and most the time not that it's failure but there's always asense of it need to be better" The pair had both one olympic medals in different boat classes and we were the top two athletes in the team. We kind of thought the potential was enormous if we got together to compete together, says Brailsford.