Famous Last Words: Stephen Roche
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/famous-last-words-stephen-roche-23314 Cycling Weekly November 14, 2013 5:23 pm The 1987 Tour de France winner is proud of his training camp business,
of charity sportive Tour de Cure, but most of all, of his son Nicolas In the early part of my career, people would say, “ Roche is OK, but he can’t suffer .” The truth is, my pedalling style never really gave much away. It wasn’t intentional, I was just naturally very supple and didn’t throw shapes, even when I was digging really deep. If I could relive any race it would be Liège-Bastogne-Liège in 1987. I had it won and I lost it in the last 100 yards . I should have trusted my instincts but because I’d been second in Paris-Nice, second in the Mediterranean from going too early, I wasn’t going to make the same mistake again. I was focused on [Claude] Criquielion, and then [Moreno] Argentin mugged us both. I rode with some of cycling’s greats but I never had a fierce rivalry . S