Italian Daniel Oss has taken stock of the 2015 season. Interviewed by Cyclingnews, the BMC rider explained that his best moment of the year was his title at the Worlds with his team. BMC Racing Team was very competitive in the team time trials. They won this test at the Critérium du Dauphiné, the Tour de France, and the Vuelta a España and its second consecutive World Championships title in Richmond, United States.
"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," Oss explained during his training camp in Dénia, Spain, this month. "The emotional part is important – you’re not alone, you are six, and everybody has to suffer together and respect each other."
He added: "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."
He explained that the title was not won only by the riders but the entire staff. "I don’t know about the other teams, but it would be difficult to do more than what we’re doing. We have the bikes, the wheels, tyres, everything is the best; the skinsuit material, the helmet, the glasses, gloves. So it’s everything, it’s not just the riders, it’s also the mechanics, the soigneurs, the coaches."
Next year the Worlds will be held later than usual which can provide an extra challenge when it comes to gathering a strong team for the event. "Everybody has a different season. You have six guys, one is maybe at the Giro, one at the Tour, another doing the Classics. But in the end you have to arrive with the same condition. After the Tour maybe someone has to rest, and someone else is fresh because they didn’t race," Oss explained. "Hopefully some of us can train together. It depends, in the middle of some races maybe. Just four is enough, because the other two maybe are racing. But especially in the last month, we can find two weeks, it’s enough to understand how we can do in the race."
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