Nicolas Roche built a near-twenty-year WorldTour career with 65 top-ten Grand Tour stage finishes, racing as both a GC rider and a road captain. His reflections on a long career — the regrets, the highlights, and finding his identity as an Irish rider — offer amateurs a rare honest look at what two decades at the top actually costs and gives.
The major positions Roche is known for in cycling and endurance sport.
Every appearance by Nicolas Roche on The Roadman Cycling Podcast — 2 episodes in total.
“I think I'm third or fourth writer with the most grand tour finishes in the Peloton. So there's those are the things where I was just like, all right, I did do quite it off, but it's hard to think in, you know, I've always been someone who, I didn't get excited about all that.”
“Andrew was saying, but, but, but, but, but, but, you're 37, you've done this for, for 17 years is not a failure. You should see it as a success and you should be grateful and happy and look at you've done 17 years, you haven't done five or six, you've done 17 years and not be disappointed because you didn't make it 18.”
“I think I've inspired more people not by winning races but just with my general attitude and being kind of an ambassador and carrying the Irish flag on the international scene. I think you know I always try to talk as an Irishman and bring higher the colors and you know the the country up.”
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