In a new run of features, Cyclingnews sits down with some of the sport's well-known personalities as they pick their cycling dream teams. This week it's the turn of Australian legend Phil Anderson.
The rules:
- Dream teams must feature nine riders, one of which can be the rider selecting the team. In which case they pick eight riders to join them.
- The riders picked must have all ridden with the person picking the team. That means you can’t just pick the eight or nine best riders of a generation.
My team is clearly generational, one that in a perfect world I would have had chosen to pursue my own cycling ambitions when back in the day I lined up to have a crack at the Tour de France.
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The creation of a team around a non-European for the Tour de France was unheard in the early eighties and I had significant battles as a result. Le Tour was not the only race for a cyclist and my team could position me or the team to win any number of races on paper.
In cycling there is always the catastrophe or the chance that can change a race in a moment and this team has been created based on the style of racing back in my day, when the racing was gnarly, instinctive and not controlled by numbers. I have also created this team drawing on my instincts and based on the spirit of the rider. Doping reputations have not been considered.
Team Leader: Phil Anderson
- Huge VO2m, engine and endurance capacity
- A good climber but perhaps my weakest link
- A good time trialist - able to hold my own
- A good sprinter, able to take a race to the line
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