The standout performances of the BMC Racing team’s 2015 season perhaps came not from one individual, but from a collective. The team time trial squad shone throughout the campaign, winning at the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Tour de France, and the Vuelta a España, and capping it with a second successive World Championships title in Richmond.
Italian Daniel Oss has been a key part of the highly successful squad over the last couple of years, and despite solid Classics campaigns, it is the team time trialling that has given him most joy.
“For me, the peak of the season was the Worlds with the TTT, I was part of the team and it was one of the best days of my life,” he told Cyclingnews at BMC’s winter training camp in Dénia, Spain, this month.
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So, what has made the BMC line-up such a formidable winning machine?
“A lot of small things, not one single thing,” Oss said. “The emotional part is important – you’re not alone, you are six, and everybody has to suffer together and respect each other.
“You know how you feel when you win, and when you are suffering. And you also know each other – you start to understand when someone is in difficulty, when someone is stronger, then you put it all together.
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