quote:<HR>Originally posted by DogMom:
Good interview.

hee

VN: You have been one of the top American racers for the past 10 years, and yet you never signed with U.S. Postal Service or Discovery Channel. Now, in the first year that Johan Bruyneel is not working on a team with Lance Armstrong, he's signed you. What should we gather from that?

CH: Without a doubt, one has to wonder what may or may have not happened there. It's pretty clear to me, without knowing for sure, that it was never Johan Bruyneel holding me off the team when it was Postal or Discovery. I'm pretty sure it was never Johan Bruyneel holding me off that team, but you'd have to go and ask Lance himself. Maybe they already had so many good riders, and they didn't know me that well. It seemed to me that Johan Bruyneel is a good director, and he knows I'm a good rider, so if you put two and two together... Of course that is not fact, just opinion. At the end of the day, Lance had the team that he wanted around him, and for whatever reason I wasn't part of that. <HR>

Translation: It could be Lance hates my guts but I'm not sure.

I'd forgotten about his speculation on Disco's having 5 guys in the front at the tour. Maybe Horner is clean. Kudos to the interviewer for asking the pointed questions.