Bruyneel goes for "best possible feeling"

By Tim Maloney, European Editor

Although Discovery Channel planned to go on the attack in last weeks tough Stage 11 through the Pyrenees to Pla d'Adet, it was more like the Pyrenees attacked them and the Discovery squad discovered the hard way what it's like to be on the ropes in the Tour De France. But Johan Bruyneel didn't guide his team to seven consecutive wins for nothing, and the Discovery Channel team bounced right back with Yaroslav Popovych's Stage 12 win in Carcassonne and now looks poised to try and get back into contention in the Alps.

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