André Greipel is one of the most decorated Grand Tour sprinters of his generation — eleven Tour de France stage wins, twenty-two Grand Tour stages in total, and a fifteen-year top-flight career across Lotto, Arkéa, and Israel. He is also one of the few sprinters who has talked openly about the mental cost of the role: managing leadout teams, surviving non-sprint stages, and the burnout cycle that ends most sprinting careers early. Having served as Germany's national road coach from 2023 to 2025, he saw the next generation up close, which makes his perspective on what amateur sprinters get wrong unusually current.
The major positions Greipel is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by André Greipel on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 2 episodes in total.
Roadman blog articles that reference André Greipel’s work.
“mentally you're always stressed when you lost the Sprint you take it with you in the night and you you're thinking a lot about it and the next day you have the pressure again it wasn't easy I'm I'm honest”
“we were called the train but the train just works as as good as the smallest engine”
“I never got the impression that the teammates were angry with myself when I lost the race I I felt angry or I felt uh I felt sorry for them because they really killed killed themselves to deliver me”
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