Yin and Jan

In an extract from Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was, Daniel Friebe visits Lance Armstrong and teases out revealing details about his relationship with the German

As soon as we’re in the door, Armstrong beckons me through the hall and invites me to take a seat at his kitchen table. Asks whether I’d like a beer. I hesitate but the fridge door is already half open. He grabs two bottles of Shiner Bock, the beer with which he’d always celebrate his return home after a stint of racing in Europe. He sits down and slides one of the bottles across the tabletop. Asks where were we, in the car. Ah, yeah, Ullrich – we were finally talking about Jan. ‘So yeah,’ Armstrong picks up. ‘I could see the media was exasperated. Like, “When’s he going to get his sh*t together?” But it endeared him to the fans – I mean, versus this robotic American.’ Armstrong takes…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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