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    HOW TO BUILD A TOUR TEAM

    Jul 10, 2020 5 minutes
    Writer: Sophie Hurcom
    “THE STRENGTH OF THE TEAM IS EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER, THE STRENGTH OF EACH INDIVIDUAL MEMBER IS THE TEAM”

    So said Phil Jackson, the man widely considered the greatest sports coach of all time. Jackson transformed Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls into a record-breaking, six-times NBA title-winning basketball team during the 1990s. While basketball and cycling might not go hand in hand in terms of how the sports are played, Jackson’s words are exactly applicable to how to build a successful Tour de France team.

    The Tour de France isn’t the NBA Finals. But creating a team for the Tour isn’t just about throwing the eight most in-form riders together and hoping they put out more watts than their rivals over the course of the 21 stages, either. As Jackson’s philosophy states, the strength of a team

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