We Might as Well Win: On the Road to Success with the Mastermind Behind Eight Tour de France Victories

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Former professional bicyclist Johan Bruyneel takes you on an exhilarating behind-the-scenes tour of the road to victory.

In 1998, Johan Bruyneel looked Lance Armstrong in the eye and said, "Look, if we’re going to ride the Tour, we might as well win." In that powerful phrase a dynasty was born. We Might as Well Win  reveals the planning, training, strategy, and tactics that led to a record seven Tour de France victories for Bruyneel with Armstrong, an eighth with Alberto ...

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Overview

Former professional bicyclist Johan Bruyneel takes you on an exhilarating behind-the-scenes tour of the road to victory.

In 1998, Johan Bruyneel looked Lance Armstrong in the eye and said, "Look, if we’re going to ride the Tour, we might as well win." In that powerful phrase a dynasty was born. We Might as Well Win  reveals the planning, training, strategy, and tactics that led to a record seven Tour de France victories for Bruyneel with Armstrong, an eighth with Alberto Contador, his eleventh grand tour victory at the Giro d’Italia, and the exclusion of his team Astana from the 2008 Tour de France. Through thrilling stories of his own racing wins and those of the cyclists he has guided during his extraordinary career, Bruyneel shows what it takes to succeed, both on and off the bike.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780547237732
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 6/3/2009
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 240
  • Sales rank: 792,443
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

JOHAN BRUYNEEL is a former professional cyclist and was the team director, from 1999 to 2007, of the U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team, which later became the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team. In that role, he won a record eight Tour de France victories (in nine years’ time), making him the "winningest" team director in the history of the sport. He is currently general manager of the Astana Cycling Team. Bruyneel lives in Spain and maintains a website at www.johanbruyneel.com.

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Table of Contents


Foreword   Lance Armstrong     ix
Prologue: "We Might as Well Win"     1
What I Learned from Winning
Follow Your Heart-But Bring Along Your Head     13
It Starts with Belief     26
Leave Some Dents     37
Do Whatever It Takes to Communicate     48
To Earn Confidence, Confide     54
Bluff When You're Weak-And When You're Strong     64
Lose a Little to Win a Lot     78
Recruit Too Much Talent     84
Trust People-Not Products     95
What I Learned from Losing
"Lucky to Stare So Boldly at Loss"     109
When Failure Is Inevitable, Limit the Damage     118
Find a Victory in Every Loss     127
If You're Breathing, You Still Have a Chance to Win     136
Build the Foundation of Victory During Defeat     147
Putting It All Together
"It Was My Dream"     161
Everything but Winning Is a Distraction     178
Winning Leads to Winning     197
Johan Bruyneel's Cycling Career     207
Acknowledgments     215
Index     217
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