He lives like m from me at home in Bern. And now, not being a pro, I can just enjoy riding in the good weather and I no longer have to force myself out when it's cold and rainy. FC: Absolutely not! I have Chasing Cancellara so that I can sometimes experience that bit of pain on the bike and the fun. Cyc: Why are riders no longer so dominant in the Spring Classics?
Now, there are many more riders competing for the same races at a similar level, there's less dominance and riders are not made into icons as often, put on pedestals. They seem fresher, too. The big thing going forward for guys like Van der Poel, you have to watch how they deal with the pressure. Riders these days earn more money, have more expectations, have more press requests, a bigger spotlight and you have to see how they manage to deal with it. And yes, I think the situation has definitely improved.
Doping was truly an epidemic in the peloton back in the late s and early s. But then after that, I believe it started to be restricted to just certain teams, and then it became restricted to just certain riders. Doping always depended mostly on the help of the team, and most of the teams have cleaned themselves up now. Also, there is more social engagement; for example, the sponsors are always getting more access and more influence, and this is also a positive thing to help clean up the sport.
Also, today teams are building around three or four riders, not just one rider. So yes, I think cycling has done a good job to address the doping problems, maybe the best job of any international sports federation.
But there will always be some black sheep or idiot who wants to dope. Can the CPA be strengthened, or should it just be discarded and a new effort started? FC: A stronger union could definitely have an impact, but how can we make that happen? For me — people were always pushing me to go out and try to help solve problems in the peloton, and sometimes I did. And this was not to make myself look big, but just to get out in front of certain issues — for the goodness of the sport.
The problem is that most riders believe they are just the slaves of the team, and the teams are the slaves of the race organizers, and so on. So, no one takes the responsibility for the sport — there is no single leader, each rider goes his own way. But I never made a step back — someone has to make a decision for the peloton sometimes.
Would you participate in helping to strengthen the voice of the riders in pro cycling? First, I need to find my way for the future, and right now I am neutral — I can jump in any direction.
But I am always positive for cycling and for the riders. But people must remember — without the riders there is no sport. If WorldTour riders stand together, I would like to see who in cycling tries to shoot them down. But it is difficult to get the attention of everyone, because most riders just want to race. TOL: If you had one career decision that you wish you could have made differently, what would it have been?
FC: No, you know, things went how they went. I have always operated on my instinct, and usually the decisions were the right ones. I am looking back, and I think every step I made was OK. We were roommates for several years. We talk together every once in a while, but you know, everybody is always busy with something. Why do you think promising young athletes most commonly fail?
FC: Well, I always think that perhaps if you are too fast coming up, you may also be going down too fast. If you come slowly up — develop your career and your skill more deliberately — perhaps that will allow you to stay at the top longer. The team that you are on is also a very important factor; some young riders have the right team, the right manager, and the right environment.
And then maybe some have the wrong team. But it is unfair to mention names. No one has the phone out.
The phone has given to the world [ measured pause, upward inflection ] good things, but also [ shorter, weightier pause; downward inflection ] bad things.
Across his glittering career, Fabian Cancellara won almost everything that there was to win. Spartacus is unafraid of taking a circuitous pass at the big questions defining our age: is hyperconnectedness a tool for good or evil? Is a trainer a trainer? Can Donald Trump take a restful dump? He has gravels at home. He is suspicious about smartphones. He knows where the fingers are. And because of all of these things, he snared the most elusive prize of all: my jaded black heart.
Up till now, such controls simply haven't been used. But while Boonen's sports director Wilfried Peetrers said he had to believe Cancellara, team manager Patrick Lefevere called on the UCI to investigate the claims fully. But if we imagine it's true, it's daylight robbery.
It's worse than performance-enhancing drugs. But after seeing this video I hope the UCI are going to fully investigate. But the UCI said they are now faced with another problem.
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