58 Daily Express Tuesday, July 30, 2019
DX1STthick skin. In sports
management you
need to be resilient
and decide what’s
important to you.
“Sometimes
you have to look
inside yourself and
dig deep – tough times
don’t last, but tough people do.
“I didn’t expect Sky to stop
when they did and when that
happened there was a moment
of reflection where I thought,
‘What am I doing? Where is
this heading?’ It would have
been a natural break, a chance
to take an easy way out and
step away gracefully.
“But then you think, ‘Hang
on a minute – life is all about
challenges and I love the sport
too much’, so I thought, sod it,
I’m going to carry on.
“Do I feel vindicated? Not
really – I got to the point
where I felt life is for looking
forward. You can look back
and be angry or bitter, but
leading a group of other
people to achieve something
is a much happier place to be.
“During the Tour last year I
was angry. I felt like I was in a
fight the whole time, I was
stewing. Maybe age helps, but
this year I’ve felt a lot calmer.
“I don’t feel any less
competitive, but I’ve been a
bit more measured and I’ve
stopped fighting everybody.”the team would not be
continuing under the Sky
banner. There were obvious
questions about whether we
would find a new owner and
whether the timescale would
allow us to prepare another
challenge to win it.
“I resolved to give it our
best shot and switching the
team from Sky to Ineos
midway through the season
was a huge undertaking, but
three months later here we are
with another Yellow Jersey.
For them [Colombians], this
will be seismic.”
So was this the most
satisfying Grand Tour win of all- even if the victor was not
British like the previous six
under Team Sky’s standard?
Brailsford admitted: “You
can’t do this job without a
parallel among 21st century
field generals.
But as excitable Colombian
fans picketed the Team Ineos
bus in the paddock, and
billionaire owner Sir Jim
Ratcliffe dispensed goodwill
among the staff, Brailsford
revealed he came close to
quitting last winter.
When Sky announced their
decade as £30million-a-year
title sponsor was ending, he
was tempted to walk away
from a job where he
had survived heavy fire
from grandstanding MPs and
anti-doping hawks.
Brailsford said: “When you
have won so many [Tours de
France] you wonder if you can
win it again – especially with
the added challenge, at the end
of last year when we were toldTOUR de France godfather
Sir Dave Brailsford added an
eighth Yellow Jersey to his
collection when he swapped
his Team Ineos top for a
Colombian football shirt with
a fan.
And as British sport’s
greatest survivor – and most
prolific serial winner since
Sir Alex Ferguson – celebrated
yet another golden sunset on
the Champs Elysees, he
grinned: “Tough times don’t
last, but tough people do.”
Since his mission statement
of forming a dream team riding
as a clean team was splattered
with unproven allegations
involving jiffy bags, asthma
medication and doping
innunedo, Brailsford has had
to ride out more storms than a
lifeboat.
But Egan Bernal’s maiden
Tour triumph, which passed
without a whiff of controversy,
reinforced the Team Ineos
principal’s reputation as one
of sport’s great strategists.
He has now masterminded
seven of the last eight wins on
Le Tour with four different
riders – Bernal, Geraint
Thomas, Chris Froome (four
times) and Sir Bradley Wiggins.
After presiding as Team
GB’s head honcho at the
Beijing and London Olympics,
Brailsford’s record is withoutTOUGH TIMES
DON’T LAST
BUT TOUGH
PEOPLE DO
THOSE WERE
THE DAYS
Friendly Matches
DEEPING RANGERS 1 PETERBORO .........8
DOVER ................... 4 MILLWALL ............2
LINCOLN C ............ 1 NOTTM FOR .........1
NUNEATON BGH .... 4 BURTON ALB ........4
WELLING ............... 5 GILLINGHAM ........0
League of Ireland Prem
DERRY CITY (2) ..... 2 WATERFORD (0) ....0
BASEBALL
MLB: Boston Red Sox 6 NY
Yankees 9, Chicago White Sox 1
Minnesota 11, Cincinnati 3
Colorado 2, Kansas City 9
Cleveland 6, LA Angels 5 Baltimore
4, Miami 5 Arizona 1, Milwaukee 4
Chicago Cubs 11, NY Mets 8
Pittsburgh 7, Oakland 6 Texas 5,
Philadelphia 9 Atlanta 4, San
Diego 6 San Francisco 7, Seattle 3
Detroit 2, St Louis 2 Houston 6,
Toronto 9 Tampa Bay 10,
Washington 11 LA Dodgers 4.
CYCLING
VOO-TOUR DE WALLONIE
(Belgium)—Stage 3 (La
Roche-En-Ardenne-Verviers,
194.2km): 1 D Cimolai (Ita) Israel
Cycling Academy 4h 40m 43s, 2 A
Capiot (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-
Baloise, 3 B Coquard (Fra) Vital
Concept-B&B Hotels, 4 L Taminiaux
(Bel) Wallonie-Bruxelles, 5 T V D
Sande (Bel) Lotto Soudal, 28 E
Dunbar (Irl) Team Ineos, 44 C
Lawless (Gbr) Team Ineos all at
same time. Overall: 1 L Vliegen
(Bel) Wanty-Gobert Cycling Team
13h 7m 54s, 2 C Lawless (Gbr)
Team Ineos at 12secs, 3 D De
Bondt (Bel) Corendon-Circus at
13secs, 4 Q Hermans (Bel) Telenet
Fidea Lions at 18secs, 5 K Van
Rooy (Bel) Sport Vlaanderen-
Baloise at same time, 19 E Dunbar
(Irl) Team Ineos at 22secs.
GOLF
FEDEX ST. JUDE INVITATIONAL (TPC
Southwind, Memphis, Tennessee)—
Final Rnd (USA unless stated, par
70): 264 B Koepka 68 67 64 65,
267 W Simpson 69 66 68 64, 268
M Leishman (Aus) 69 69 63 67, 269
R McIlroy (NIrl) 69 67 62 71, T
Fleetwood (Eng) 68 70 65 66, M
Fitzpatrick (Eng) 67 64 69 69, 270 J
Rahm (Spa) 62 71 68 69, 271 I
Poulter (Eng) 66 69 67 69, 272 B
Horschel 67 66 69 70, B Watson 65
70 68 69, 273 J Rose (Eng) 67 68
70 68.
THE USPGA TOUR RENO-TAHOE
TOURNAMENT (Montreux G&CC,
Reno, Nevada)—Final rnd (USA
unless stated, par 72): 47 C
Morikawa 13 7 13 14, 44 T Merritt
7 12 18 7, 40 J Chin 9 11 11 9, R
Streb 13 12 10 5, 39 B Burgoon
12 2 10 15, 38 T Hoge 13 8 7 10,
37 C Danielson 5 12 10 10, R
Sloan (Can) 10 11 9 7, R Palmer 8
7 14 8, M Laird (Sco) 5 12 11 9,
36 S Munoz (Col) 4 8 9 15, 35 S
Straka (Aut) 1 14 7 13, 34 G
McNeill 6 16 2 10, J Teater 10 5
10 9, 33 C Stroud 10 8 8 7, R
Henley 3 9 9 12, J Byrd 10 7 12 4,
32 E Grillo (Arg) 8 8 10 6, P
Uihlein 3 13 9 7, R Diaz (Mex) 5 3
8 16, C Wright 7 4 8 13, K Jones
5 6 7 14, C Tringale 7 7 15 3, A
Cejka (Ger) 6 9 13 4, 31 B Hurley
III 11 7 13, A Pavan (Ita) 4 9 11 7,
B Todd 8 11 1 11, J Wagner 4 4
13 10, D Bozzelli 9 11 12, S Power
(Irl) 11 4 11 5.
TENNIS
ATP BB&T ATLANTA OPEN (Atlanta,
Georgia, USA)—Final: (3) A De
Minaur (Aus) bt (2) T Harry Fritz
(USA) 6-3 7-6 (7-2).
WTA MUBADALA SILICON VALLEY
CLASSIC (San Jose, California,
USA)—Women’s 1st rnd: (6) C
Suarez Navarro (Spa) bt M Linette
(Pol) 6-3 6-3.
ATP & WTA CITI OPEN (Washington
D.C., USA)—Men’s 1st rnd: T Paul
(USA) bt D Kudla (USA) 6-0 6-4, B
Fratangelo (USA) bt I Karlovic (Cro)
6-4 6-7 (14-16) 7-6 (7-5).
Women’s 1st rnd: C McHale (USA) bt
(7) A Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) 6-2 4-6
7-5, I Swiatek (Pol) bt O Jabeur (Tun)
4-6 6-4 6-4.
ATP GENERALI OPEN (Kitzbuhel,
Austria)—1st rnd: R Carballes Baena
(Spa) bt H Dellien (Bol) 3-6 6-3 6-2, (7)
L Sonego (Ita) bt F Delbonis (Arg) 7-6
(7-4) 6-7 (4-7) 7-6 (7-4), M Bachinger
(Ger) bt M Klizan (Svk) 7-6 (7-5) 6-7
(5-7) 7-6 (7-4), D Novak (Aut) bt J
Rodionov (Aut) 6-3 6-4, J Chardy (Fra)
bt M Cecchinato (Ita) 7-6 (10-8) 7-5.TODAY’S DIARY
(7.45pm unless stated)
UEFA Champions Lge
Second Qualifying Round
Second Leg
Apoel Nicosia v Sutjeska (6pm) ...............
Basel (2) v PSV Eindhoven (3) (7pm) ......
D Zagreb (2) v Saburtalo Tbilisi (0) (7pm) ...
Maccabi Tel-Aviv (0) v CFR Cluj (1) (6pm) ...
Nomme Kalju (0) v Celtic (5) (6pm) ........
Olympiakos (0) v Plzen (0) (7.30) ...........
Valletta (1) v Ferencvaros (3) (7pm) ........
EUROPA LEAGUE 2ND
QUALIFYING RND 2ND LEG
F91 Dudelange (2) v Shkendija (1) (4.55) ..
FK Suduva (5) v Tre Penne (0) (4.45) ......
Lincoln Red Imps (0) v A Armenia (2) (4.45).
Feronikeli (1) v Slovan Bratislava (2) (5pm).
Friendly Matches: AFC Wimbledon
v Crystal Palace, Atalanta v Norwich
(7pm), Bromsgrove Sporting v
Cheltenham, Burnley v Nice,
Hibernian v Newcastle (5.45), Hyde
United v Rochdale, Kristiansund BK
v Man Utd (6pm), Melksham Tn v
Swindon (7.30), Real Madrid v
Tottenham (5pm) (Live on ITV4), St
Neots Tn v Milton Keynes Dons
(7pm), Tavistock v Plymouth (7.30),
Woking v Portsmouth, Sydney FC v
Paris SG (1pm), FC Utd of
Manchester v Chester FC.
Geosonic Lowland Football
League: Berwick v Bonnyrigg Rose,
Civil Service Strollers v Stirling
University, Spartans v BSC Glasgow,
V Of Leithen v Gala Fairydean.
CRICKET
T20 Blast - South Group: Surrey v
Kent (The Kia Oval, 6.30pm).
CYCLING
UCI Europe Tour: VOO-Tour de
Wallonie (Belgium).
TENNIS
WTA Mubadala Silicon Valley Clas-
sic (San Jose, California).
ATP Generali Open (Kitzbuhel, Austria).
ATP & WTA Citi Open (Washington,
D.C).SPORT IN BRIEF
After masterminding an incredible SEVEN
Tour de France triumphs, Sir Dave opens up
on what makes him keep defying his critics
year after year and why he is more content
TOUR DE FRANCE: CYCLING’S SERIAL WINNER
From Mike Walters in ParisON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY
1930: The first football World Cup came to a close with
hosts Uruguay beating Argentina 4-2 in the final in
Montevideo. Below is the toss-up before the game.
1966: England beat West Germany 4-2 after extra-time
in the World Cup final at Wembley.
2006: World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound
revealed Olympic 100metres champion Justin Gatlin’s
B sample, for prohibited levels of testosterone, was
positive.
2011: Stuart Broad took a hat-trick for England in the
second Test against India at Trent Bridge. England won
the four-Test series 4-0.
2015: UK Athletics’ investigation into Mo Farah’s coach
Alberto Salazar found “no evidence of impropriety”.
2017: Jodie Taylor was on target as England defied
decades of history to reach the Women’s Euro 2017
semi-finals with a 1-0 win over France in Deventer.РЕЛИЗ ПОДГОТОВИЛА ГРУППА "What's News" VK.COM/WSNWS