in un'intervista a Porte parla del fatto che quest'anno lo ha aiutato molto fare nuoto e che invece da dilettante, quando aveva corso con la Monsumennese glielo avevano proibito
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allego parte dell'intervista.
"There is not much really going on when you are swimming. You do get your thoughts during long sessions. I enjoy it."
Porte laughs when reminded of how the sceptics of another era might have scoffed at the thought of swimming being a good off-season conditioning tool.
He says many did when he arrived in Europe in 2009 to ride for the amateur Monsummanese Grassi Mapei team.
"There is a lot of that folklore. You don't swim, you don't walk upstairs and this and that," he said. "I come to an Italian background [in cycling] where they told me not to swim, not to do core stability and things like that.
"But the sport has changed so much and if you have the right people like Tim Kerrison telling you to swim, I take their word for it."