“I was totally down and close to a complete collapse,” he said last week in an interview with the Danish broadcaster TV2 la🧔st week, together with his wife An🌃ne Dorthe Tanderup.
“I spent the whole day lying in my bed with drawn curtains, becau💃se it was impossible to grasp,” he said. “I could not see an end to it. If they take our licens𒅌e, the entire life's work I've done ... it falls apart.”
He informed the other members of his management team. “He told us at a meeting: I need you to take a little over,” sports director Philippe Mauduit told the Ritzau news agency. The riders were not told as “they should only focus on th💜e sport".
“My job is to make sure that the boy🎉s are physically and mentally on top, and th🍸at they don't hear too many things around them. I will make a bubble around them.”
Riis hid it well, Mauduit said. “H🃏e can tell you better than I how depressed he was, but I do not think that anyone outside could see it. I am almost certain that he had not told us spor☂ts directors that we would not have known it.”
