Nicole Cooke Quotes

"During the race, I went through a really bad patch on the fourth lap where I found myself at the back looking at people going out of the back of the race and thinking 'I mustn't be one of these and I have to move up',"

"Now it's another 12 months I have to watch another rider race in the rainbow jersey. I didn't do much wrong. I was beaten by a very, very fast sprinter."

"The girls all helped me get back up there and everyone did what they could so for sure without the girls supporting me, I wouldn't have been there."